Mama Played Baseball
In David A. Adler’s Mama Played Baseball, Amy’s father is fighting in World War II and her mother struggles to make ends meet.
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Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A.
Diana Cohn’s charming Si, Se Puede! tells the story in Spanish and English of the Justice for Janitors Campaign that brought together 8,000 workers in April 2000.
more...Fire! The Beginnings of the Labor Movement
The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 took the lives of 146 people and shocked the citizens of New York City.
more...We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909
Joan Dash’s We Shall Not Be Moved takes an in-depth look at the lives of the young women factory workers, mostly between the ages of 16 and 18 who led the “largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States.”
more...The Bobbin Girl
In The Bobbin Girl, McCully sheds light on the lives of Lowell’s factory girls whom she describes as “the heroines of America’s industrial age” in a gripping, feminist, fact-based story
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