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2011., NWP Call No: SC Bio S641c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of Robert Smiliie,MP and trailblazing trade unionist who was born into poverty in Belfast in 1857. He moved to Scotland when he was 15 to join his brother James and became a miner at 17 in Larkhall. This opened his eyes to the way miners were treated by the mine owners and he realised that strong unions and the creation of a political party to represent the working classes was desperately needed. He was secretary of the Larkhall Miners and helped form the Lanarkshire Miners' Association. He became friends with Keir Hardie and together they rose through the ranks of the Labour movement. In 1888 he was a founder of the Scottish Labour Party.
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1995., Hill and Wang Call No: 940.5318 K64k Edition: A new, expanded ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Survivors :2015., Adult, Harper Call No: 940.531 H726b Edition: First U.S. Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey--first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave-labor camp, where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and, finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish seventeen-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Biographer Wendy Holden details the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, which helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, they meet for the first time. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they come to consider each other "siblings of the heart." A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, and a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and love amid inconceivable cruelty.
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2014., Adult, Harvard University Press Call No: 332.041 P636c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Analyzes a collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns, transform debate, and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
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2014., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD 332.041 P23c Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Analyzes a collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns, transform debate, and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
![Capital in the twenty-first century [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76543.JPG "Capital in the twenty-first century [CD]")
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2006., Grass Roots Press Call No: LLC Bio C512b Lev. 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collection
![Cesar Chavez [LLC]](/Library/images/~imageCT67403.JPG "Cesar Chavez [LLC]")
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2022., Beacon Press Call No: NEW 338.4 G437c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: People are feeling squeezed because of chokepoint capitalism: exploitative businesses creating barriers to competition that let them take over markets and extract an unfair share of value. This book teaches how to spot those chokepoints, and what we can do to blow them up.
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2023., Between the Lines Call No: NEW 331.4 M672c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers’ rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. Despite being sidelined within the labour movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, the women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and make an indelible mark on their communities. Richly detailed and engagingly written, Cleaning Up is an archival treasure about an undersung piece of working-class history in urban North America.
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2020., Harper Call No: Fic Wal Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause. But when Rye's turn on the soap box catches the eye of well-known activist and suffragette Elizabeth Gurley, he is swept into the world of labor activism--and dirty business. With his brother's life on the line, Rye must evade the barbaric police force, maneuver his way out of the clutches of a wealthy businessman--and figure out for himself what he truly stands for. The Cold Millions is a stunning portrait of class division and familial bonds. In this masterful historical take on the enduring saga of America's economic divide, Jess Walter delivers nothing less than another "literary miracle" (NPR)"--
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-- Philip Toosey and the bridge on the River Kwai.2006., Pocket Books Call No: 940.54 S955c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- FÃnlscher.2008, p2007., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Counterfeiters Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's opponents. But, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop the operation. Now faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions are ultimately the right ones.
![The counterfeiters [DVD] (2007). Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.](/Library/images/~imageCT80631.JPG "The counterfeiters [DVD] (2007). Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.")
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2012., 12:12:12, Dreamscape Media Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long afterwards, he calls her to say it's a dead body. At a distance, she missed her. Now she has police on site, an investigation in progress, and a member of staff no one can track down. As she's drawn into the dead girl's story, she makes shattering discoveries about the future of Belle Vie, the secrets of its past, and sees, more clearly than ever, that Belle Vie is not to be trusted.
![The cutting season [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The cutting season [eAudiobook]")
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1977., Reader's Digest Press : distributed by Crowell Call No: 331.88 V437d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2014., Adult, The University of West Indies Press Call No: BLK 972.87 S477d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation" in 1950's England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850's who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the islands economically, socially and politically well into the twentieth century. West Indians provided the bulk of the workforce for the construction of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal, and between 1850 and 1914 untold numbers sacrificed their lives, limbs and mental faculties to the Panama projects. Many West Indians remained as settlers, their descendants now citizens of Panama; many returned home with enough of a nest egg to better themselves; and others launched themselves elsewhere in the Americas as work beckoned. Senior tells the compelling story of the West Indian rite of passage of "Going to Panama" and captures the complexities behind the iconic "Colon Man". Drawing on official records, contemporary newspapers, journals and books, songs, sayings, and literature, and the words of the participants themselves, Senior answers the questions as to who went to Panama, how and why; she describes the work they did there, the conditions under which they lived, the impact on their homelands when they returned or on the host societies when they stayed. Many books have shown the "conquest" of the Isthmus of Panama by land and sea exploring how the myriad individual lives touched by the construction of the railroad and the canal changed the world as well.
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2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 338.476 B395e Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. The story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in 1780, these men created a potent innovation (Beckert calls it war capitalism, capitalism based on unrestrained actions of private individuals; the domination of masters over slaves, of colonial capitalists over indigenous inhabitants), and crucially affected the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. War capitalism shaped the rise of cotton, and was used as a lever to transform the world. The constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, farmers and merchants, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the modern world. A book as unsettling and disturbing as it is enlightening, weaving together the story of cotton with how the present world came to exist"--Provided by publisher.
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: Bio S111s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas. On the other side of the country, Mitsue Sakamoto and her family felt their pleasant life in Vancouver starting to fade away after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ralph found himself one of the many Canadians captured by the Japanese in December 1941. He would live out his war in a prison camp, enduring Pestilence, beatings, starvation, and a journey on a hell ship to Japan to perform slave labour, watching his friends and countrymen die all around him. Mitsue and her family were ordered out of their home and were packed off to a work farm in rural Alberta, leaving many of their possessions behind. By the end of the war, Ralph was broken but had survived. The Sakamotos lost everything when the community centre housing their possessions was burned to the ground, and the $25 compensation from the government meant they had no choice but to start again. Forgiveness intertwines the compelling stories of Ralph MacLean and the Sakamotos as the war rips their lives and their humanity out of their grasp. But somehow, despite facing such enormous transgressions against them, the two families learned to forgive. Without the depth of their forgiveness, this book's author, Mark Sakamoto, would never have existed"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Green fingers.By Owen, Clive Mirren, Helen Kelly, David, 1929 July 11- Clarke, Warren, 1947- Dyer, Danny Fogerty, Adam Joseph, Paterson Little, Natasha Hershman, Joel Swords, Travis Victor, Daniel J Styler, Trudie Dagul, Guy Fireworks Pictures Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm) Boneyard Entertainment Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)2001, c2000., Adult, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Greenfingers Edition: Widescreen or standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A group of prisoners in an experimental work-release program discover that they have an unexpected talent for gardening.
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2004., Anchor Books Call No: 365.45 A648g Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.
