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Week of February 2, 2009

LABOR UNIONS
News Item: On January 30th, President Barack Obama signed three executive orders that would “level the playing field for labor unions in their struggle with management,” and undo Bush administration policies that heavily favored employers over workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently announced that in 2008 the number of U.S. wage and salary workers who were members of a union increased by 428,000 to 16.1 million, or 12.4 percent of the overall workforce.

Autobiography of Mother Jones
By Mother Jones. Arno, 1969
Call Number: HD8073 .J6 A3 1969

Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
By Tom Sito. UP of Kentucky, 2006
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary

Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II
By Timothy J. Minchin. UP of Florida, 2005
Call Number: HD8083 .S9 M56 2005

Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement
By George C. Leef. Jameson Books, Inc., 2005
Call Number: JD4903.5 .U6 L44 2005 (At Jupiter and Treasure Coast - May be borrowed through ILL services)

From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America’s Future
By Stanley Aronowitz. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998
Call Number: HD8072.5 .A665 1998

Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies On Workers, Unions, and Communities
Edited by: Charles Craypo and Bruce Nissen. ILR Press, 1993
Call Number: HD6508 .G73 1993 (At Jupiter - May be borrowed through ILL services)

Harlan County, USA (DVD)
Directed by Barbara Kopple. Image Entertainment, 1976
Call Number: HD5325 .M62 1973 H37 2006 (Media Center)

A History of Organized Labor in the English-Speaking West Indies
By Robert J. Alexander. Praeger, 2004
Call Number: HD8242 .A43 2004

L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
By Ruth Milkman. Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
Call Number: HD6490 .O72 U652 2006 (At Treasure Coast - May be borrowed through ILL services)

Labor Pains: Inside America’s New Union  Movement
By Suzan Erem. Monthly Review Press, 2001
Call Number: HD6508 .E74 2001

Labor's Story in the United States
By Philip Yale Nicholson. Temple UP, 2004
Call Number: HD8066 .N53 2004

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
By Elliott J. Gorn. Hill and Wang, 2001
Call Number: HD8073.6 .J6 G67 2001

Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Worker’s Union
By Sol Dollinger. Monthly Review Press, 2000
Call Number: HD6515 .A82 I5735 2000

The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, But Join Much Less
By Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz. ILR Press, 2004
Call Number: HD6508 .L53 2004

Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers In the New Union Movement
Edited by Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss. Cornell UP, 2004
Call Number: HD5708 .R43 2004

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault On Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
By Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf. U of Illinois Press, 1994
Call Number: HB95 .F66 1994

Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
By John A. Salmond. UP of Florida, 2004
Call Number: HD8066 .N53 2004

Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles
Edited by Bruce Nissen. M.E. Sharpe, 2002
Call Number: HD6483 .U66 2002

Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio
By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. U of Illinois Press, 2006
Call Number: HD6490 .R352 U648 2006

What Do Unions Do?: A Twenty-Year Perspective
Edited by James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman. Transaction Publishers, 2007
Call Number: HD6508 .W44 2007

Why Unions Matter
By Michael D. Yates. Monthly Review Press, 1998
Call Number: HD6508 .Y38 1998

Women Workers On Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
By Roxanne Newton. Routledge, 2007
Call Number: HD6079.2 .S644 N48 2007