Three Strikes
Subtitle: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: September 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780807050125
Subjects: World history; United States; History: American; Case studies; United States - General; History - General History; Strikes and lockouts; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; 20th century; United States - 20th Century; History; Labor movement; Strikes
Description: "Howard Zinn recounts the dramatic tale of the great coal mine strike in Colorado that culminated in the Ludlow Massacre. The story pits immigrant workers against the National Guard, Mother Jones against the Rockefellers, and corporate power against union organizing, a story that is all too familiar today.".

"With Dana Frank we join a sit-in strike in a Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression where young women slept on the floor, played games and sang songs together, and enjoyed the attention of an amused and curious public that vilified the "chain-store threat" long before Wal-Mart.".

"Robin D.G. Kelley's tale of a movie theater musician strike in New York gets at the heart of what defines a worker. Facing the inevitable dominance of sound movies, the musicians failed even to agree on demands, and could not prevent members of other unions from crossing their picket lines. What happens when jobs are lost to new technologies, and how can labor help?"--BOOK JACKET.