strikes

Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.

A history of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement.

Presents a comprehensive history of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and describes the struggle of the immigrant workers which included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one different nations.

Felipe never helps out at home, is rude, disobedient and gets bad grades. He expects to get in trouble, but his parents have decided to go on strike.

The history of the labor movement, the organized campaign to improve conditions for working people.

Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.

Rosie and her family are caught up in the Arnot, Pennsylvania, mining strike of 1899-1900, led by the union organizer Mother Jones.

"Life is sweet for Benedict. Every morning he wakes up to find jars of fresh honey on his back porch. He makes honey toast for breakfast, bakes honey cake in the afternoon, and drinks honey tea before bed. But one day, the jars on Benedict's porch are empty. The bees in his backyard have gone on strike! They are tired of doing all the work around the hive. What can Benedict do to make the bees happy and bring sweetness back to his days?"--Dust jacket.

In 1927, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends.