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PUZZLE  |  |  |  |  | Have some fun and at the same time educate your children about the fight for equal opportunity for women with a new jigsaw puzzle featuring the famous World War II-era poster of Rosie the Riveter. An American icon, Rosie represents the thousands of women who entered U.S. factories and kept industries running while men went off to war. $14 from The Union Shop Online.™ | |  | |  |
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BOOKS
 | | | | | Looking for a way to channel your political energy into action in your community and win for working families? In Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues, Wellstone Action, an organization founded by David and Mark Wellstone, sons of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), outlines a comprehensive step-by-step guide to successful grassroots campaigning and organizing. Politics the Wellstone Way is a workshop in book form, a how-to guide written in the exuberant, crusading spirit that characterized Wellstone’s career. University of Minnesota Press. $19.95 paperback from The Union Shop Online.™ | | | | |
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 | | | | | New Working-Class Studies, edited by Youngstown State University (YSU) professors John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon, calls for a reconsideration of the ways in which class and work intersect in the 21st century economy. The authors, co-directors of the Center for Working-Class Studies at YSU, have gathered essays from historians, economists, geographers, sociologists and literary scholars to demonstrate how the study of working-class life transforms traditional disciplines, and several essays emphasize the importance of popular and artistic representations of working-class life. $45 cloth cover; $19.95 paperback from the The Cornell University Press. | | | | |
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WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) just unveiled its new website, www.icem.org. The site builds on it the ICEM’s wealth of materials and documents current ICEM projects and campaigns, such as contract and agency labor, HIV/AIDS relief, gender discrimination and global union networks. In the archives, you can access all ICEM news releases, newsletters and other ICEM documents and information from past events. The site also provides information in seven languages—English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish and Russian. The ICEM, based in Brussels, Belgium, has 420 affiliated trade unions in 125 countries, including several AFL-CIO affiliates. | | | | |
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MUSIC
 | | | | | On her CD, Imagine, Pam Parker gives voice to the aspirations and dreams of working-class Americans. The CD includes Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” Steve Jones’ “We Speak Louder than Machines” and other songs such as “Truck Driving Woman,” Congo Square” and of course, “Imagine.” $15 from The Union Shop Online.™
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