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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
418 p.
Language
English
Description
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 351 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor,...