Stop here often to get the latest hot picks and cool tools. If you can’t locate the items at The Union Shop Online™, try www.powellsunion.com, the nation’s largest union bookstore or get a list of union stores at The Union Shop Online™.
BOOKS
 |  |  |  |  | In Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, author Barbara Ehrenreich explores the lives of the white-collar unemployed. Ehrenreich, author of the best selling Nickel and Dimed, argues that the middle class is the loser in a game of employer bait and switch. Promised upward mobility and financial security, the reality is much harsher for most middle-class workers not represented by unions: If they lose their jobs, there is no strong system in place to support them and their families. $24 hardcover from The Union Shop Online.™ | |  | |  |
|
 | | | | | Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era tells the story of how the San Francisco building trades unions built, exercised and ultimately lost great power between the 1890s and the 1920s. Author Michael Kazin shows how the leaders of the construction unions helped craft the political as well as economic strength of its members. The author challenges the notion that unions were not a political force in many urban communities. The book also provides a close look at the social and cultural forces at work in San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century. $18.95 paperback from The Union Shop Online.™ | | | | |
|
WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | Finding the latest news about unions and issues that affect workers is a click away at www.laborradio.org, Workers’ Independent News. Operating since 2002, the multimedia voice for workers includes news from unions and activists across the country, packaged for distribution to radio stations and print publications and streamed online. | | | | |
|
DVD | | | | | | “A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin,” is a touching and educational portrait of the well known 89-year-old rank-and-file activist and musician from New York. A tireless fighter for justice since the 1930s, Margolin continues to make music while still hitting picket lines and helping workers win a voice at work with unions across the United States. The one-hour DVD features guest appearances by singers Utah Phillips and Faith Petric, as well as a bonus 30-minute concert by Margolin filmed on May Day 2005, at the American Labor Museum (The Botto House) in Haledon, N.J. $15 from the Labor Heritage Foundation. | | | | |
|
MUSIC
 | | | | | Nobody Else Like Me: Celebrating the Diversity of Children, a children’s CD by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, celebrates different cultures, languages and physical abilities while emphasizing how special every individual child is. The CD has won the Parent’s Choice Gold Award and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. $15 from The Union Shop Online.™
| | | | |
|
|
