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1) Germinal
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Series
Language
Français
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Description
Une des grandes grèves du siècle dernier racontée par un journaliste de génie qui en a fait un réquisitoire, un formidable " J'accuse " contre le capital, le roman de la lutte des classes et de la misère ouvrière. Un livre de nuit, de violence et de sang, mais qui débouche sur l'espoir d'un monde nouveau lorsque le héros, Etienne Lantier, quittant la mine " en soldat raisonneur de la révolution ", sent naître autour de lui une " armée...
2) Germinal
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her parents leave their simple life in Poughkeepsie to seek a new beginning in the booming city of Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Frankie's father finds work in a bustling cotton mill, but erupting labor strikes threaten to dismantle the town's socioeconomic structure. Frankie soon befriends two charismatic young men-Winslow Curtis, privileged son of the town's most powerful politician, and...
4) Rednecks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars-from the Matewan Massacre through the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed conflict on...
5) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
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