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BOOKS
 | Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy
In 1953, an East Harlem substitute math teacher named Al Shanker attended a meeting of the New York Teachers Guild—a small group who believed in legalizing collective bargaining for teachers. By the time of Shanker's death 44 years later, he had built the into one of the most successful unions in America. The AFT was both an organizing superstar and an engine of education reform, and Shanker himself had become one of the half-dozen most important union leaders of the 20th century. This is the story of that creative, militant, compelling man who brought union membership to millions of educators, a leader Bill Clinton called his mentor. Available from .™ |
 | Making Changes and One Pledge Unspoken
Patricia Hilliard, an alternative-press writer and UAW National Writers Union member and activist for more than 30 years, has written and self-published two novels that grapple with powerful social and political issues. In Making Changes, women employees of the American Empire Insurance Co. who are tired of low pay and boring work seek to take control of their work lives. Three women—one white, one African American and one Chinese American—struggle to form a union. Hilliard's novel is based on her four years of union organizing experience in an insurance company. In One Pledge Unspoken, a high school student finds out how dissenters often are treated when she and her union organizer uncle take a stand against the Vietnam War. Available from . |
DVD
 | Mother Jones: America's Most Dangerous Woman
Absolutely no one was neutral about Mother Jones during her lifetime. A prosecuting attorney in West Virginia called her "the most dangerous woman in America." The progressive novelist Upton Sinclair said, "She was the walking wrath of God." This new 23-minute documentary tells her story. After she lost her husband and children to illness, Mary Harris Jones took the name Mother Jones and channeled her grief and rage to organize miners, steelworkers, domestic workers and beer bottle washers. This DVD is a fine introduction to one of the most fiery and fearless figures in the history of the American union movement. Available from .™ |
RESOURCES
 | Inventory of American Labor Landmarks
There literally are hundreds of labor landmarks across the nation marking workers’ struggles and celebrating working heroes. Now, the has compiled a full list in a handy pamphlet that includes sculptures, murals, monuments—even museums that honor working people. You’ll find a memorial to firefighters who gave their lives battling a huge blaze in Yellowstone Park; the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Northern California; and the Thomas Hart Benton mural depicting blacksmiths, farmers, miners and other workers in the Missouri state Capitol. Wherever you travel, you're likely to be near a spot where the history of working America was made. Available from the . $3. |
 | The Other Immigrants
The Other Immigrants is a collection of six fascinating, often disturbing, interviews with Latinas about their experiences as immigrants in the United States. Their stories personalize the issue of immigration. Maria Isabel Galindo, from Honduras, describes harvesting tomatoes in fields filled with snakes, with the reptiles getting caught in the harvesting machinery and tangled in her hair. Talking about her work organizing Latina workers in the South, Yudy Nikita Williams says: "Sometimes I feel like I have a stigma, like I have something on my forehead." The interviews are published by , the network of women activists and union organizers that supports Central American women working in the textile and agricultural industries—here and in their native countries. Available from . |
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