labor unions

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Are players' unions good for professional sports leagues?

2013
Presents a collection of essays that debate the positives and negatives of players' unions in professional sports. Compares the pros of each topic to the cons and includes a bibliography and list of organizations to contact.

A country that works

getting America back on track
2006
Examines the gathering threats to Americans' standard of living and the government's failure to address them and offers a bold plan for making vital reforms.

The glasswrights' progress

2001
Rani Trader, living in the palace of Morenia's new king, is determined to rebuild the Glasswright's Guild which was shattered two years earlier, but a betrayal from within the castle, and the threat posed by the armies of King Sin-Hazar, not only hinder her plans, but endanger her life.

Timber beasts

a Sage Adair historical mystery of the Pacific Northwest
2010
Labor movement secret agent Sage Adair, leading a double life in Seattle as a wealthy restaurant owner and a poor laborer, conducts his own investigation into the murder of a man, who was hired to do the dirty work of the owners of railroads, in order to clear the name of a young man who Adair knows is innocent.

A whole different ball game

the sport and business of baseball
1991
The first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association Union, Marvin Miller, writes of his experiences in behind the scenes basebll.

Call me Ruth

1982
The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.

Lech Walesa

1993
A biography of the Polish union organizer who became his country's first elected president in 1990.

Fire in the hole!

2004
A claustrophobic boy dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman rather than a miner like his father, but when all union miners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick develops new respect for his father while taking over responsibility for his family.

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