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1) The coworker
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"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell-beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running-is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds...
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"Is labor's day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book ... labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived--but different--labor movement is now more relevant than ever in our increasingly unequal society. The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the workplace is more authoritarian than ever, and we have even less of a say over our conditions...
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McMasters guide to homicide volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Prepare yourself for an education you'll never forget! A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists, and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you'll ever read. Who hasn't wondered what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? At the McMasters Conservatory,...
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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics volume 1225-1
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United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pub. Date
1958.
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English
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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics volume 1225-2
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United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pub. Date
1959.
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English
11) Which way is up?
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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After being fired from his job for accidentally joining a union, an agricultural laborer is rehired for a management position
A poor agricultural laborer loses his job after accidentally joining a workers' strike, only to be rehired for a managerial position
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Postcards from Pullman volume 2
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English
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Months after leaving her infant son in another woman's care, a woman contemplates returning to Pullman, Illinois to find out what happened to her baby, while the caregiver wonders if her undercover work for the railroad company is improving working conditions, as she had hoped it would
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"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian...
16) Labor-management cooperation: recent efforts and results : readings from the Monthly labor review
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U.S. Department of Labor, Labor-Management Services Administration, Bureau of Labor Statistics
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1982.
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English
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English
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Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the Southeast. His compelling narrative unravels the confusing story of the shooting of the town's police chief, the trials of the alleged killers, the unsolved...
18) Making Mondragón
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Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. It's nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector, Mondragón has had a rich experience over many years in manufacturing products as varied as furniture, kitchen equipment, machine tools, and electronic components and in printing, shipbuilding,...
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The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall-an organizer and labor scholar-addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative study of coalitions between unions and community organizations. Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns...
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