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Language
English
Description
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.
A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his...
A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his...
2) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy) needs reliable transit to get to work–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. FULL TIME is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life.
4) Germinal
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Series
Language
Français
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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...
6) Germinal
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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....
7) Strike!
Author
Publisher
H. Liveright
Pub. Date
[c1930]
Physical Desc
376 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
12) At war
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Despite record profits, and heavy sacrifices made by their employees, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1,100 employees decide to battle against the brutal decision in an attempt to save their jobs.
13) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
15) Pride
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Special features: Six never-before-seen deleted and extended scenes; Pride the true story.
Author
Series
Presses pocket volume 871
Publisher
Presses Pocket
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Nouv. presentation.
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Français
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Français
Description
A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Special ed., Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Italiano
Description
An accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves.
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