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Selling women short : the landmark battle for workers' rights at Wal-Mart / by Featherstone, Liza.(CARDINAL)540775;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.Introduction: American Goliath -- Female trouble -- "Made in America": the Wal-Mart culture and its promises -- "An exceptional woman:" (non)promotions at Wal-Mart -- Always low wages! -- Possibilities and limitations -- WWJD? organize Wal-Mart! -- "Attention shoppers!" -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Case studies.; Wal-Mart (Firm); Sex discrimination in employment; Sex discrimination in employment; Sex discrimination against women; Industrial relations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The betrayal of work : how low-wage jobs fail 30 million Americans and their families / by Shulman, Beth.(CARDINAL)461652;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-240) and index.
Subjects: Case studies.; Wages; Income distribution; Families; Working poor; Working poor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Going for broke : living on the edge in the world's richest country / by Quart, Alissa,editor.(CARDINAL)356233; Wallis, David(David R.),editor.(CARDINAL)880802;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-350) and index.The body -- Home -- Family -- Work -- Class."A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals." One essayist and grocery store worker describes what it is like to be an "essential worker" during the pandemic; another reporter and military veteran details his experience with homelessness and what would have actually helped him at the time. These dozens of fierce and sometimes darkly funny pieces reflect the larger systems that have made writers' bodily experiences, family and home lives, and work far harder than they ought to be. Featuring introductions by luminaries including Michelle Tea, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, Going for Broke is revelatory. It shows us the costs of income inequality to our bodies and our minds--and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions"--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Poor; Poor; Working poor; Working poor; Working class; Working class; Poverty; Poor;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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The AOC Way: The secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's success (Women in Power) / by Fredrickson, Caroline,(DLC)n 2014078620author.(CARDINAL)409655;
Understanding and applying the wisdom of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! In an incredibly short time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has galvanized the country on issues of national importance. This young member of Congress has motivated Democratsto confront climate change and income inequality and is upending conventional wisdom about how young women, especially women of color, are supposed to behave. Her background, including a family that fell out of the middle class due to health care challenges, has driven her to champion those on the margins, such as low-wage workers, immigrants, people of color, and younger people who face a future of climate disruption and instability. This book takes life lessons from the rising star known as AOC and offers readers a chance to apply them to their own lives. In five chapters, The AOC Way weaves substantive issues and AOC's experiences to understand how she so quickly came to dominate media coverage in America but also to drive real change in what seems like a lightening flash. AOC has demonstrated some key values and commitments on her way to success, such as believing in yourself and not letting haters take you off course; working hard and being prepared to prove your talents; bringing your experiences to your work by not forgetting how you got where you are; challenging the status quo; and staying true to your friends and allies.
Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandra, 1989; Policy sciences;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty / by Freeman, Amanda(Professor),author.(CARDINAL)862481; Dodson, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)649675;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Girls step up -- Shifts to work any and all the time -- Care work for cheap -- The centrality of motherhood -- The broken promise of childcare -- Moms and kids on a cliff -- Keeping us in our place -- Calling us up."Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid. While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care for siblings and aging family members. Based on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap explores how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving others of us the lives we seek. Destined to rank with works like Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also offers a way forward-with both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Poor women; Working poor;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Class war in America : how economic and political conservatives are exploiting low- and middle-income Americans / by Kelly, Charles M.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237).
Subjects: Conservatism; Working class; Capitalism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pecan sheller / by Ruiz-Flores, Lupe,author.(CARDINAL)664203;
" In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother struggling to make ends meet, Petra has to drop out of school to shell pecans at a factory. Hoping it's only temporary, she tries not to despair over the grueling work conditions. But after the unhealthy environment leads to tragedy and workers' already low wages are cut, Petra knows things need to change. She and her coworkers go on strike for higher wages and safer conditions, risking everything they have for the hope of a better future." --Grades 4-6.Ages 10-14.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Employee rights; Grief; Mexican Americans; Pecan; Strikes and lockouts;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Help wanted : a novel / by Waldman, Adelle,author.(CARDINAL)402293;
"Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day's truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours--most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility for advancement that that implies. The members of Team Movement--including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her "cool kid" status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path--band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion. Adelle Waldman's debut novel was a breakout sensation, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as an "exacting character study" with "excellent and witty prose" and described as "incisive and very funny" by the Economist and "brilliant" by both NPR's Fresh Air and the Washington Post. In her long-awaited follow-up, Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and astute social observation to the world of modern, low-wage work. A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in today's economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living."--
Subjects: Social problem fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Retail trade; Retail trade; Employees; Friendship; Friendships.;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 34
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Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle / by Honey, Michael K.(CARDINAL)277967;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index.
Subjects: Interviews.; African Americans; Labor movement; African American labor union members; Race discrimination; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mutualism : building the next economy from the ground up / by Horowitz, Sara,author.(CARDINAL)401435; Kifer, Andy,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index."The progressive twentieth century changed every facet of life for American workers--from how much life you could expect to have, to what you had the right to demand of it. But by 2027, a majority of American workers will go to work every day as a part of the gig economy, and without the traditional employer-sponsored safety net that baby boomers took for granted. And within a decade, a majority of Americans won't even be traditional employees. A new generation of workers--from low-wage service workers to white-collar freelancers--faces a landscape in which basic benefits like paid sick leave, pensions or 401Ks, disability benefits, or employer-sponsored healthcare are things of the past. Given these facts, America is either headed for an unprecedented social crisis, or a golden age of cooperative innovation. In the absence of government action, MacArthur Genius and longtime organizer Sara Horowitz has redefined the stakes of today's labor crisis, showing that the remedy to this shift in the way we work lies in a cooperative model rooted in the American experience. From the movement for women's suffrage to the civil rights movement to your local food co-op, these cooperative endeavors--which Horowitz calls "mutualist" movements--didn't exist to make a profit, but were rather economic engines for the social good, and were founded on a simple premise: People can join together to solve their own problems, even the most intractable ones. They don't necessarily need government, or private business, to do it for them. In Mutualism, Horowitz shows how this approach will be the framework on which the future safety net for American workers will rest. Horowitz demonstrates how mutualist structures are already helping us solve common problems--and where else they could be--by revisiting the little known origins of many household names, like Land O' Lakes, Ace Hardware, and REI to show how cooperatives are quietly driving rural and urban economies alike all over the world. Call it good business, call it good citizenship--Sara Horowitz calls it Mutualism: an elegant solution to the current crisis of work, and a manifesto for a culture of collaborative cooperation"--
Subjects: Mutualism; Cooperation; Employee fringe benefits;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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