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3121) Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
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The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different story. Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s...
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From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their city. Bringing...
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This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral...
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This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities. At...
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Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges....
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Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overtly racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He...
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Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stateville James B. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, presents the first...
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The author of “Ill-Gotten Gains” uses philosophy and psychology to examine how human behavior can be questioned under criminal law.
Henri plans a trek through the desert. Alphonse, intending to kill Henri, puts poison into his canteen. Gaston also intends to kill Henri but has no idea what Alphonse has been up to. He puncture's Henri's canteen, and Henri dies of thirst. Who has caused Henri's death? Was it Alphonse? Gaston? Or neither?
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InJustice volume 13
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A violent murder goes unsolved for a year until a man, hearing voices in his head, confesses the crime to a priest. The priest reports him to the police.
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InJustice volume 9
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A child serial killer terrorizes the city of Saskatoon in the summer of 1975.
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InJustice volume 4
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A woman's disappearance leads to the death of a police informant and a double suicide three years later. Her case was never solved.
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InJustice volume 1
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A man is shot and killed while lying in his prison cell bunk. The shot came from outside the prison. The incident was later discovered to be a prison escape gone wrong.
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InJustice volume 5
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A high school student is tortured to death over the course of a weekend by gang members while a high school party rages around them.
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InJustice volume 7
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A neo-Nazi shoots a first nations trapper. He is later found to be a police informant.
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InJustice volume 12
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A Mountie murders his wife in 1919 and is caught after the wife's sister begins a letter writing campaign with Canadian authorities from her home in Scotland.
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InJustice volume 10
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July 1, 1935 marks the bloodiest day of the Great Depression as police attack a peaceful gathering of Communist organizers in Regina.
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InJustice volume 6
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A man is murdered by his wife in 1919. The circumstances surrounding his death throw doubt upon her motives. Ultimately she becomes the first woman sentenced to death in Canada.
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InJustice volume 8
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A woman disappears and her case goes cold. Eight years later a Cold Squad discovers her body buried under the concrete basement of a new house, built on the property of the home she once occupied.
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