“Real” People’s History – Unions, War
One Man’s War
A compelling affirmation of General Sherman’s
pronouncement that war is hell, this memoir gives a vivid picture of
what it was like to be a foot soldier in the greatest conflict in human
history. It describes the final stages of this conflict as it raged from
the Normandy beachhead across France and Germany to the River Elbe in
1944 and 1945. More >
Divided We Fall
“An unflinching picture of workers fighting against
overwhelming odds for justice in the workplace. As Peter Kellman tells
it in these pages, workers even have to fight to keep the knowledge of
their own struggles alive. This book is a milestone in preserving and
sharing that knowledge.” More >
Pain On Their Faces
Pain on Their Faces is a moving account of an epic
struggle by workers and their community against a powerful corporation -
a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in
Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40 testimonies by strikers and their
supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle
for themselves, their families, their community, and future generations. More >
Building Unions
Your union local or activist community group is
doing good work against one corporate assault after another. But your
successes aren’t making the next campaigns easier. Or challenging public
officials who enable corporate usurpations.You’re itching to take
action. More >
Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet
At the heart of the current global environmental
crisis lie difficult moral choices, which are central to religion. This
book explores the connections between faith and ecology, seeking to
redefine and strengthen the bond between the two. VOICES OF HOPE
portrays the lives of individual women and men who are searching to give
life a new or renewed vision of humans’ relationship to the earth, and
describes actions to nurture and protect the environment launched by
faith-based environmental groups. More >
The Blinded Eye
The authors draw out a firm thread connecting
Columbus’ attitude to the ‘natives’ he discovered with the attitudes of
‘developers’ today who continue to believe that ordinary people and
villagers are inferior, ignorant, inefficient, undeveloped and
superstitious. More >
Vietnam War and Public Policy
The Development of U.S. policy on the Vietnam War
is a study in public policy analysis. To fully understand the how and
why of our involvement in the Vietnam War, we must first understand the
basics of public policy – how it is formed, altered and put into effect. More >
