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Janitors, street vendors, and activists : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / by Zlolniski, Christian

Table of Contents: “…Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley -- The subcontracting of Mexican janitors in the high-tech industry -- Working in the informal economy -- Mexican families in Santech -- Community politics in the barrio -- Conclusion : subproletarians in a postindustrial economy.…”
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The bank

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Organizing at the margins : the symbolic politics of labor in South Korea and the United States by Chun, Jennifer Jihye, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Organizing Subcontracted University Janitors --…”
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Take ten : new 10-minute plays

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The guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem by Cohen, Amnon, 1936-

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Challenging the market : the struggle to regulate work and income

Table of Contents: “…Gendered resistance: organizing justice for janitors in Los Angeles /…”
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Words for war : new poems from Ukraine

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11/22/63 : a novel / Eleven twenty-two sixty-three by King, Stephen, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Watershed moment -- The janitor's father -- Living in the past -- Sadie and the general -- 11/22/63 -- The green card man.…”

A clever dummy / Automatic figure

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Mother Teresa, CEO : unexpected principles for practical leadership by Bose, Ruma

Table of Contents: “…Then pick your moment -- Embrace the power of doubt -- Discover the joy of discipline -- Communicate in a language people understand -- Pay attention to the janitor -- Use the power of silence -- You don't have to be a saint -- The missionaries of charity today.…”
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California crackup : how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it by Mathews, Joe, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Out of luck -- Building and breaking California -- Crisis without exit -- History and the constitution -- Empowering and shackling Sacramento -- From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature -- The California fix -- Budgeting without shackles -- The architecture of political frustration -- Remaking elections and the legislature -- Government from the bottom up -- A more direct democracy -- Good rules to match its mountains.…”
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How brains think : evolving intelligence, then and now by Calvin, William H., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Evolving a Good Guess; 3. The Janitor's Dream; 4. Evolving Intelligent Animals; 5. …”
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The unfinished world : and other stories by Sparks, Amber

Table of Contents: “…The janitor in space -- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies -- The cemetery for lost faces -- The logic of the loaded heart -- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting -- Lancelot in the lost places of the world -- And the world was crowded with things that meant love -- Birds with teeth -- For these humans who cannot fly -- Take your daughter to the slaughter -- We were holy once -- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour -- The men and women like him -- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee -- The fires of western heaven -- The process of human decay -- The fever librarian -- The unfinished world -- The sleepers.…”

What unions no longer do by Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The collapse of organized labor in the United States -- Government is not the answer : why public sector unionism won't rescue the labor movement -- Wages and inequality -- Strikes -- The timing was terrible : deunionization and racial inequality -- Justice for janitors? : deunionization and Hispanic economic assimilation -- The ballot box : deunionization and political participation -- The past as prologue : the labor movement pre-new deal, today, and tomorrow -- Appendix: Data and methods -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”
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Take up the Black man's burden : Kansas City's African American communities, 1865-1939 by Coulter, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Graduates of the first Janitor Training School conducted by the Kansas City Urban League.…”
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The sweet everlasting : a novel by Mitcham, Judson

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History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 by Lowney, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.…”
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Beyond the fields : Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the struggle for justice in the 21st century by Shaw, Randy, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Cesar Chavez and the UFW : revival of the consumer boycott -- The UFW boycott transformed -- Building the clergy-labor alliance : reviving the fast -- Yes we Cane : Miami's janitors struggle for justice -- The UFW battles pesticides -- The UFW grassroots political model : legislative advocacy and voter outreach -- The labor-Latino alliance -- Building the immigrant rights movement : sí se puede! …”

Slippery characters : ethnic impersonators and American identities by Browder, Laura, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity -- Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies -- Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood -- One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians -- The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger -- Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America -- Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness -- To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town -- Conclusion. …”
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Alonso's deadline.

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The deserted valley

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Occupation : the Harvard living wage sit-ins by Razsa, Maple

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Early Charlie Chaplin : the artist as apprentice at Keystone Studios by Neibaur, James L., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Charlie Chaplin's early years -- Mack Sennett and the Keystone Studios -- Chaplin's Keystone films -- Making a living -- Kid auto races at Venice, Cal -- Mabel's strange predicament -- A thief catcher -- Between showers -- A film Johnnie -- Tango tangles -- His favorite pastime -- Cruel cruel love -- The star boarder -- Mabel at the wheel -- Minutes of love -- Caught in a cabaret -- Caught in the rain -- A busy day -- The fatal mallet -- Her friend the bandit -- The knockout -- Mabel's busy day -- Mabel's married life -- Laughing gas -- The property man -- Face on the bar room floor -- Recreation -- The masquerader -- His new profession -- The rounders -- The new janitor -- Those love pangs -- Dough and dynamite -- Gentlemen of nerve -- His musical career -- His trysting places -- Getting acquainted -- His prehistoric past -- Tillie's punctured romance -- Chaplin after Keystone.…”
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La Source

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Rosevelt's America - a refugee's inspiring journey to build a new life for his family by Weisberg, Roger

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A deed to the light : poems by Walker, Jeanne Murray

Table of Contents: “…Letting GoThe Dogs of the Heart -- Rain -- Night-light -- Part 4 -- Light -- Outlaw -- The Janitor -- Song of the Girl Who Stepped Out of Language -- Mary Ellen Is Pregnant! …”
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A deed to the light : poems by Walker, Jeanne Murray

Table of Contents: “…Letting GoThe Dogs of the Heart -- Rain -- Night-light -- Part 4 -- Light -- Outlaw -- The Janitor -- Song of the Girl Who Stepped Out of Language -- Mary Ellen Is Pregnant! …”
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Fourteen Stories : Doctors Patients and Other Strangers. by Baruch, Jay

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The secret tradition in alchemy : its development and records by Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942

Table of Contents: “…Chapter xii paracelsuschapter xiii denys zachaire and others; chapter xiv famous english philosophers; chapter xv alchemy and exploitation; chapter xvi the new light of alchemy; chapter xvii the reformation and german alchemy; chapter xviii thomas vaughan; chapter xix the cosmopolite; chapter xx john frederick helvetius; chapter xxi an alchemist of mitylene; chapter xxii the mystic side of alchemy; appendices; i animal magnetism in 1850; ii kabalistic alchemy; iii recent editions of the suggestive inquiry; iv the mutus liber and janitor pansophus; index.…”
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Humble roots: the lawyer and the janitor -- The early education of Damon J. Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"…”
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Wisdom in nonsense : invaluable lessons from my father by O'Neill, Heather

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From mission to microchip : a history of the California labor movement / History of the California labor movement by Glass, Fred

Table of Contents: “…: the United Farm Workers -- The rise of public sector unionism -- The conditions for teaching and learning to happen -- Feminist collective bargaining meets the civil service -- Decline of manufacturing unionism -- Justice for janitors: organizing immigrant workers -- Teachers, nurses, and firefighters: the Alliance for a Better California -- Labor and the community.…”
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Organizing the landscape : geographical perspectives on labor unionism

Table of Contents: “…Hanham and Shawn Banasick -- Geographic mobility, place, and cultures of labor unionism / Andrew Herod -- Space, place, and tradition in working class organization / Jane Wills -- The scales of justice : localist ideology, large scale production, and agricultural labor's geography of resistance in 1930s California / Don Mitchell -- Political geographies of labor union organizing / Andrew Herod -- In your face, in your space : spatial strategies in organizing clerical workers at Yale / Lee Lucas Berman -- Geographies of organizing : justice for janitors in Los Angeles / Lydia A. Savage -- Labor unions and the making of economic geographies / Andrew Herod -- Rival unionism and the geography of the meatpacking industry / Brian Page -- "Working steady" : gender, ethnicity, and change in households, communities, and labor markets in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1930-1940 / Meghan Cope -- Investigating the local-global paradox : corporate strategy, union local autonomy, and community action in Chicago / Andrew E.G. …”
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The Russian Revolution As I Saw It. by Carter, Mark

Table of Contents: “…THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE WHITE AND THE RED ARMIESCHICHEROF-My Appointment by the Soviets; IVAN EMELIN-President of the Metal Trades Union; ABRAHAM GITLITZ-The Leather Manufacturer; AZARY MARKOV-The Battle for Rostov; NIKITA KHURSTALEV-Rostov's Agricultural Commissar; COMMUNIST ZVEREV-Chief of the Communist Party in Rostov; BORIS IVANOVICH WASILJEV-Mayor of Rostov; VASILY SHAUB-The Conservatory; PERIOD AFTER NATIONALIZATION; IVAN NESTEROF-Chief of Rostov Soviets; THE COURT OF DEATH; THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JANITOR; OSIP MINOR-Mayor of Moscow; LEONID LUTZKY AND DR. …”
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Frenchtown chronicles of Prairie du Chien : history and folklore from Wisconsin's frontier

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Changing Role of Unions : New Forms of Representation. by Wunnava, Phanindra V.

Table of Contents: “…The Road to Union Renaissance in the United States -- 2. Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and Beyond: A New Form of Unionism in the Twenty-first Century? …”
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My life without me

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Life lessons from veterans by Tocquigny, Rick, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Veterans History Project; THE HEART OF VETERANS; Life Lesson #1. Our Squadron Janitor; Life Lesson #2. The School Desks; Life Lesson #3. …”
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Kill Your Darlings

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Innovation locale a l'epreuve du global : un defi pour les acteurs

Table of Contents: “…La campagne Justice for Janitors : l'écroulement du mythe et l'éveil des syndicats américains; 1.1.2. …”
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