Eleanor Roosevelt lived from 1884 to 1962. Her life encompassed the Great Depression, two world wars, the rise of Communism, and the fight for equality and justice by women, workers, and African Americans.
Offers a nuanced account of the life of the migrant worker whose ground-breaking work as an organizer and labor leader made him a national icon, looking at both the achievements and flaws that defined the man.
Biography of farm worker and labor organizer Cesar Chavez, looking at his actions, turning points, and the many perceptions held about him, and discussing how he has become a role model for Chicanos.
The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
Conflicting positions concening a local labor union divide Rachel's family in late nineteenth-century Minneapolis. Can living the Christian life help her to heal her family?.
