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The payback / by Cauley, Kashana,author.(CARDINAL)861830;
"Jada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size, but exactly what style they need to transform their life. Too bad she's no longer using this superpower as a wardrobe designer to Hollywood stars, but for minimum wage plus commission at the Glendale mall. When Jada is fired yet again, she is forced to outrun the newly instated Debt Police who are out for blood. But Jada, like any great antihero, is not going to wait for the cops to come kick her around. With the help of two other debt-burdened mall coworkers, she hatches a plan for revenge. Together the three women plan a heist to erase their student loans forever and get back at the system that promised them everything and then tried to take it back"--
Subjects: Novels.; Student loans; Debtor and creditor; Clerks (Retail trade); Low-wage workers; Collection agents; Revenge; African American women; Working poor;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 22
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"We are all fast-food workers now" : the global uprising against poverty wages / by Orleck, Annelise,author.(CARDINAL)386238;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at globalization and its costs, as seen through the eyes and told whenever possible through the words of low-wage workers themselves: the berry pickers and small farmers, fast food servers, retail cashiers, garment workers, hotel housekeepers, home health care aides, airport workers and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety and a living wage. The result of 140 interviews by award-winning historian Annelise Orleck, and with original photographs by Liz Cooke, this is a powerful look at neo-liberalism and its damages, a story of resistance and rebellion, a reflection on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up"--
Subjects: Interviews.; Working poor; Living wage movement.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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We cry justice : reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign / by Theoharis, Liz,editor.(CARDINAL)787222;
"In We Cry Justice, leaders of the Poor People's Campaign--a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism--uncover what the Bible really says about justice and poverty. Liz Theoharis is joined by pastors, organizers, scholars, low-wage workers, and people in poverty in interpreting sacred stories about the poor seeking healing, justice, and freedom. Find in the pages of Scripture God's persistent call to repair the breach and fight poverty, not the poor."--Back cover.
Subjects: Devotional literature.; Justice; Social justice; Poverty in the Bible.; Poor People's Campaign.; Bible;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The big squeeze : tough times for the American worker / by Greenhouse, Steven.(CARDINAL)176753;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Worked over and overworked -- Workplace hell -- The vise tights -- Downright Dickensian -- The rise and fall of the social contract -- Leaner and meaner -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Wal-Mart, the low-wage colossus -- Taking the high road -- Overstressed and overstretched -- Outsourced and out of luck -- The lowest rung -- Unions try to fight back -- Starting out means a steeper climb -- The not-so-golden years -- Lifting all boats.Examines the growing crisis confronting American workers at every economic level who are dealing with stagnating wages, shrinking health and pension benefits, and disappearing job security, and exposes the poor treatment of employees by many corporations.
Subjects: Equality; Industrial policy; Industrial relations; Middle class; Working class;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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An analysis of the low earnings of North Carolina's black workers / by Stroup, Peter.; North Carolina.Department of Administration.Office of Employment and Training.;
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 8 of 2nd group).
Subjects: Wages; African Americans;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Old South, New South : revolutions in the southern economy since the Civil War / by Wright, Gavin,1943-(CARDINAL)135293;
Bibliography: pages 304-309.Old south, new south -- From laborlords to landlords: the "liberation" of the southern economy -- The long view of southern land and labor -- Plantation, farm, and farm labor in the south -- The rise of southern textiles -- Southern industry, the colonial economy, and black workers -- The interwar years: assault on the low-wage economy -- The new economy of the postwar south.An original and economically rigorous analysis of the role of slavery in generating economic "backwardness." Wright traces key reasons for the South's century-long status as a second-class country-within-a-country, and assesses the legacy of slavery, the material devastation and social upheaval of the Civil War, and the colonial exploitation of the South by northern capital. He maintains that above all the defining feature of the southern economy was the isolation of its labor market from national and international development. On this basis, Wright explains the sharecropping system, the Populist revolt, the South's limited investment in the education of its own people, and the low-skill, low-productivity, "colonial" character of the region's industrial progress. Only the intervention of the Federal Government during the Great Depression, the author argues, destroyed the bases of the South's low-wage economy, led to long-delayed mechanization of the plantation, helped close the North-South wage gap, and created massive out-migration of unskilled labor during and after World War II. With the demise of the plantation regime, the South opened its doors to outside flows of capital and labor.
Subjects: Industries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Finding jobs : work and welfare reform / by Card, David E.(David Edward),1956-(CARDINAL)169593; Blank, Rebecca M.(CARDINAL)184955;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-535) and index.The labor market and welfare reform / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card -- The employment, earnings, and income of less skilled workers over the business cycle / Hilary W. Hoynes -- Displacement and wage effects of welfare reform / Timothy J. Bartik -- Job change and job stability among less skilled young workers / Harry J. Holzer, Robert J. LaLonde -- Wage progression among less skilled workers / Tricia Gladden, Christopher Taber -- Gender differences in the low-wage labor market /Jane Waldfogel, Susan E. Mayer -- Health insurance and less skilled workers / Janet Currie, Aaron Yelowitz -- Employee-based versus employer-based subsidies to low-wage workers: a public finance perspective / Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin -- Public service employment and mandatory work: a policy whose time has come and gone and come again? / David T. Ellwood, Elisabeth D. Welty -- Financial incentives for increasing work and income among low-income families / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card, Philip K. Robins -- Child care and mothers'employment decisions / Patricia M. Anderson, Phillip B. Levine -- Use of means-tested transfer programs by immigrants, their children, and their children's children / Kristin F. Butcher, Luojia Hu -- Time limits / Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna A. Pavetti.
Subjects: Welfare recipients; Unskilled labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hear my sorrow : the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker / by Hopkinson, Deborah.(CARDINAL)279646;
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.740LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Factories; Labor disputes; Immigrants; Italian Americans; Diaries;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 18
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Dear America: Hear my sorrow : the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker / by Hopkinson, Deborah.(CARDINAL)279646;
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.740LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Diaries; Factories; Immigrants; Italian Americans; Labor disputes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Tennessee-Virginia tri-cities : urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950 / by Lee, Tom,1969-(CARDINAL)845691;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-330) and index.Between two worlds -- An abundance of labor at a reasonable cost -- Humanics : the business of the people -- A pink tea party -- An unsightly back yard -- Essentially practical and nonpolitical -- We've had enough streamlining."In this carefully documented book, Tom Lee uses archival material, newspapers, memoirs, and current scholarship in Appalachian studies to examine the economic changes that took place in the Tri-Cities region from 1900 to 1950. With modernization and urbanization, an urban-industrial strategy of economic development evolved. The entry of extractive industry into the mountains established the power of the urban elite to shape rural life. Local businessmen saw the route to financial strength in the recruitment of low-wage industry. Workers left struggling farms for factory jobs. This urban-rural relationship supported the Tri-Cities' manufacturing economy and gave power to the area's elite." "Readers will gain a better understanding of the complexity of modernization in Appalachia and the rural South from this engaging book."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Urbanization; Cities and towns;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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