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BOOKS
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The Future of Liberalism
Despite enormous popular support for workers' rights, universal health care, civil rights, Social Security and more, only 21 percent of Americans call themselves liberal. That percentage doesn't faze Alan Wolfe, who is both an original political theorist and lucid, entertaining writer. His newest book is a journey through the history and spirit of what Wolfe calls "the most appropriate political philosophy for our times." He guides us through liberalism's commitment to reason, quest for justice, optimism and generous view of human beings. As Wolfe writes: "Liberalism matters only because people do." Available from . |
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Come Home, America
In Come Home, America, journalist William Greider surveys in chilling detail some of our largest problems—the global trading system, militarization of foreign policy, the triumph of free-market ideology, the environmental crisis and the contamination of democracy by special interests. Yet he's also deeply optimistic. "From the birth of our nation, it was always ordinary people, pushing from the bottom against an entrenched status quo, that led to the most momentous changes in American life"—and he's concluded it can happen again. Available from .™ |
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The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit-Downs
With The Labor Wars, fiery union activist Sidney Lens tells the stories of the Molly Maguires, the western metal miners and eastern coal miners; and workers in the garment and steel and auto and rubber industries who, by the 1930s, won a better life for their families and a measure of economic justice for all of us who have followed. Haymarket Books, a scrappy little outfit in Chicago that publishes more good books on labor than many larger publishers, has done us a favor and reissued Lens' 1973 history that never should have gone out of print. Available directly from . |
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Mother Jones Museum
"The most dangerous woman in America" now has her own museum online. Mary "Mother" Jones organized industrial workers everywhere from Pennsylvania to Colorado to Alabama and, in the process, became one of the legends of the union movement. The Mother Jones Museum is a scrappy and simple website that describes itself as a "virtual museum and curricula about the amazing labor agitator." It includes links to her entire autobiography and other documents about militant labor history; a description of the acclaimed documentary "Mother Jones: America's Most Dangerous Woman"; and information on the campaign for a commemorative stamp in her honor. Visit Mother Jones here. |
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Made in L.A.
"We were scared, but we couldn't let fear paralyze us," says Maura Colorado, one of the most unpretentious and courageous people you'll ever see in a documentary. "Made in L.A."—which has been shown on PBS and honored at film festivals around the world—tells the story of Colorado and two other Latina workers in the garment sweatshops of Los Angeles, where they're routinely paid little (less than $200 per week), overworked (12 hours a day or more) and denied their most basic rights. Then something remarkable happens. They come together in a community center for garment workers and after a boycott and three-year struggle, transform their lives in ways they never imagined. Order the DVD . |
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