Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
10 best books like Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories (Rebecca Harding Davis): Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, The Mass Strike, Great Short Works of Herman Melville, Pigs Is Pigs, Chip of the Flying U, Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a successful...
| Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
| ISBN | 0906224292 |
La revolución rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Alemania. Durante todo este año Rosa Luxemburgo se dedica a hacer comprender a los socialistas alemanes el significado de aquellos acontecimientos revolucionarios. En diciembre de 1905 decide partir...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0060586540 |
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...
| Author | Ellis Parker Butler |
| ISBN | 1410103226 |
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
| Author | B.M. Bower |
| ISBN | 0803261217 |
B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was—more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was—and still is—a star. Her first, Chip of the...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 0141180625 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a turn-of-the-century American feminist and socialist thinker. In her works of fiction, Gilman sought to illustrate her ideas about the way American society squandered the talents and economic contributions of women. Based on the nervous breakdown she suffered during...
| Author | Moishe Postone |
| ISBN | 0521565405 |
In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him...
| Author | Peter Linebaugh |
| ISBN | 1859845762 |
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.
Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose—for...
| Author | Nick Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0252074521 |
I was a long-time member of the Socialist Party. One of the reasons was familial. Father and his father had both belonged. Another was because two of my heroes, Norman M. Thomas and Eugene V. Debs, had belonged. When I was young, Thomas was still around. I recall reading about his death one day while in our...
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 0863161502 |
I'm reading this book and I love it.
It tells the truth about the historic revolution that knocked down the Tsar's immense wealth and wide-ranging system of hideous oppression -- from the barbaric massacres against Jews to the mass killing of people trying to deliver a petition or stage a peaceful...
| Author | Frank Norris |
| ISBN | 0760773661 |
The story of Frank Norris's The Pit could be taken from today's headlines: a businessman begins speculating in the commodities market on a small scale until, overcome by greed, addicted to the art of the deal, and harboring an ever-increasing appetite for power, he gambles recklessly in the market...
| Author | Grace Chang |
| ISBN | 0896086178 |
Contents
Introduction
Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred
Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother
Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited
Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare Workers: Emplyable but "Not Employed"
Chapter 4:...
A New England Nun and Other Stories
| Author | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
| ISBN | 1598180347 |
"A New England Nun" is the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman who has lived alone for many years. Louisa is set in her ways, she likes to keep her house meticulously clean, wear multiple aprons, and eat from her nicest china every day. She has an old dog named Caesar who she feels must be kept chained up because...
| Author | Lars T. Lih |
| ISBN | 1861897936 |
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he subsequently headed the Soviet state until 1924, bringing...
Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
| Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| ISBN | 0486409104 |
THIS, ladies and gentlemen, IS American history. It is free online. Get it. "Here was a rich new land, the wealth of which was to be had in return for ordinary manual labor. Had the country been conceived of as existing primarily for the benefit of its actual inhabitants, it might have waited for natural...
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places
| Author | Edward W. Soja |
| ISBN | 1557866759 |
Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and the embracing spatiality of human life...
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
| Author | E.P. Thompson |
| ISBN | 1565840747 |
Customs in Common is the remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson’s influential, landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerged in...
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
| Author | David Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0521379822 |
This is a nice, detailed history of the American labor movement that serves as a foundation for any discussion of both why it failed and why it is viewed with such horror and disdain today.
True, the period from the end of slavery to labor's WWI-ish heyday illustrates how diverse the movement was,...
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions....
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
| Author | Jonathan Rose |
| ISBN | 0300098081 |
A monumental book, full of the most amazing new insights. A sort of intellectual roller coaster ride through the period 1850 to 1950, mainly focused on Britain but with asides to the US and Europe. Instead of focusing on what was being written, he focuses on what was being read, using information from...
How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0691156573 |
Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar?...
| Author | Ellen Glasgow |
| ISBN | 0813915147 |
The Sheltered Life, " writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance." It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values...
