Class War, USA
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-847-8 (ISBN)
A rich collection of stories about ordinary people who resisted oppression and exploitation, Brandon Weber's short essays capture the little-known moments of struggle when workers and veterans built movements of hope and defiance. From the mines to the factories to the fields, Weber shares the experiences of the real-life men and women who organised, heroically resisted, and battled the bosses and corrupt politicians. In the spirit of A People's History of the United States, this book conveys engaging and accessible narratives of ordinary people who have indelibly shaped US history.
Brandon Weber (1963-2020) wrote for The Progressive, Upworthy, Big Think, and many other online publications, where wrote extensively on labor history and current events. He also was a union activist for more than 30 years.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Joe Hill
Labor’s Best-Known Songwriter Refused to be Buried in the State of Utah
Lowell, Massachusetts
America’s Very First Union of Working Women
The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike
African American Women with the Power to Call a General Strike—in 1881
Pullman
Former Slaves Were Hired to Staff Pullman Box Cars Because They “Knew How to Be Servile” So They Formed a Union
Chicago
The Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894: Chicago Was the Center of Both Struggles, and Things Got White-Hot
Eugene Debs
The Carnegies and Rockefellers Tried to Silence Debs with Jail Time. That Didn’t Stop Him
Colorado’s Mining Frontier
Cripple Creek, 1894, and Ludlow, 1913: Two Very Different Battles, and Both Were Shocking
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
One Hundred Twenty-Three Young Women Who Went to Work One Day in a New York Factory Never Came Home. It Changed Our Country Forever
Christmas Eve, 1913
Fifty-Nine Children Died on Christmas Eve, 1913, and It Broke Hearts Around the World
Christmas Truce
These Soldiers Were Thought to Be Enemies, but They Played Soccer and Celebrated Christmas Eve,1914, Together
The Battle of Blair Mountain
It Ended When Federal Troops Were Called Against Thirteen Thousand Miners It Was “Civil War in the Hills”
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ever Heard of “Black Wall Street”? There’s a Reason You Might Not Have
Bonus Army
The Great Depression Left WWI Vets with the Short End of the Stick, They Weren’t Going to Sit Back and Take It
The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934
It Began with Truck Drivers Who Wanted a Union. They Became Teamsters
Sitting Down, Striking Flint
These Images Might Look Like Some Lazy Workers, Up to No Good But They’re Actually Heroes
The Battle of the Overpass
A PR Disaster for Ford Motor Company that Kick-Started the UAW
“Rosie the Riveter”
Remember the “Rosie the Riveter” Image Pretty Much Everybody Knows? (Ahem)
United Farmworkers
That Time When 14 Million Americans Stopped Eating Grapes, Because Farmworkers Asked Them To
The Stonewall Rebellion
A Civil Rights Battle for the Times
Wildcat
In 1970, Postal Workers Suddenly Walked off the Job. The Nation, the Union, and Even President Nixon Were Caught by Surprise
Attica
What Actually Happened at Attica in 1971 Is Still Largely Kept Hidden—but Clues and Facts Are Coming Out Even Now
The Watsonville, California, Cannery Strike
This Is What Solidarity Looks Like
UPS
Those Packages Won’t Move Themselves: Big Brown Versus the IBT
The Fight for $15
The Long Game, and Why It’s Part of Labor’s Future
Woody Guthrie
Why Several Verses of “This Land Is Your Land” Are Usually Left Off When It’s Taught in School
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Chicago |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60846-847-X / 160846847X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60846-847-8 / 9781608468478 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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