strikes

A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.

Examines events that led to the Delano Grape Strike from 1965 through 1970, discussing low wages, dangerous working conditions, the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the United States Farmworkers Union, and other related topics.

A history of labor from colonial times to the present.

Slam Duncan and his mountain biking Chain Gang stage a hunger strike to save their racing hill from developers, hoping their appetite for biking will outweigh their appetite for cheeseburgers and French fries.

Examines the 1994-95 baseball strike within the context of the history of the game, its past labor problems, and its future as the great American pastime.

Chronicles the events surrounding three major workers' strikes which occurred in the early twentieth century and discusses how those strikes changed the labor force forever.

The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.

This book describes the harsh conditions that child laborers endured from the 1700s to the 1900s and discusses the problems in getting legislation that established child labor restrictions.

Three bears rescue Easter after the rabbits go on strike.

Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.