New Retirement Legislation - Not What You Think ...
Legislsation aimed at making retirement a lot better for many Americans holds a dirty little surprise for some older workers. As you may know, I don't get terribly alarmist over retirement matters in general. We all must consider the information ... [... more]
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Alexander Berkman
In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as [... more]
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Lizabeth Cohen
Lizabeth Cohen is Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990), which won the Bancroft Prize and the ... [... more]
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Don Johnson
This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics. Ranging from hands-on workers like Ida Rolf to ... [... more]
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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
 Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age: At first glance this book is very intimidating by size. I was overwhelmed by the amount of photos Salgado took of his subjects, which in this book were the workers around the world. As I flipped through each [... more]
CDN$78.14
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Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the ...
Broad strokes study Italian workers worldwide: Italians, including Sardinians and Sicilians, left their homeland by the millions between the French Revolution and the onset of World War II. Roughly 20,000,000 Italian migrants, about 10% of all long- [... more]
CDN$20.07
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The Top 12 Resources Youth Workers Want
The 13th Resource!: That's right... the 13th resource you want for your ministry is this book! It is creative, challenging and very effective for the new youth worker or an old tenured guy like me. If you work in a church or a para-church ministry, The [... more]
CDN$16.50
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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an ...
Leisure Among the Working Class: It is interesting how the focus of leisure has changed among social historians to include elements of working-class leisure. In Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers & Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 by Roy [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, ...
Recipeint of the Tacoma Public Library's 2000 Morgan Prize!: The Murray Morgan Prize is awarded annually by the Tacoma Public Library to an outstanding Washington author in recognition of a work published during the previous year that is of high literary [... more]
CDN$23.96
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The Children's Worker's Encyclopedia of Bible-Teaching ...
A Children's Worker Must Have: This book goes throughout the entire Old Testament giving the worker simple activities to bring the Bible to life. Not all of the activities are great but there are plenty to make this book a must have for children's [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers ...
Great interviews, good writing, weak analysis: Daniel Pink was doing quite well as publicist and speechwriter. He'd landed a job on the staff of the Vice President of the United States, in fact. Then he had one of those "Moments of Truth we've heard [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Workers In A Lean World
Workers of the lean world, unite!: Kim Moody's "Workers in a Lean World" is a scholarly but highly readable critique of the contemporary labor movement and its struggle with capital. The author discusses numerous instances from around the world [... more]
CDN$29.00
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