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Harlan County, U.S.A. by directed by Barbara Kopple
Call Number: SMLR Discs 19

Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike. Documentary.
Strike by directed by Volker Schöndorff.
Call Number: SMLR Discs 42

Fictionalized version of the Solidarity Strike in Gdansk, Poland. Foreign language film.
Salt of the earth by directed by Herbert Biberman.
Call Number: SMLR Discs 32

A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions.
American Dream by directed by Barbara Kopple.
Call Number: SMLR Discs 3

1991 Academy Award winning documentary about the 1985-86 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota.
Newsies by directed by Kenny Ortega.
Call Number: SMLR Discs 17

A movie musical about the July 1899 newsboys strike over the raising of distribution prices on newspapers.

Labor conflict in the United States : an encyclopedia by edited by Ronald L. Filippelli.
Call Number: HD5324.L32 1990

SMLR.
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history by edited by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, & Immanuel Ness.
Call Number: HD5324.E39 2009

SMLR.

Strikes, picketing, and inside campaigns : a legal guide for unions by by Robert M. Schwartz.
Call Number: KF3431.Z9S39 2006

SMLR.
From blackjacks to briefcases : a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States by by Robert Michael Smith.
Call Number: HD5324.S64 2003
The fragile bridge : Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 by by Steve Golin.
Call Number: HD5325.T42 1913.P383 1988

SMLR.
The university against itself : the NYU strike and the future of the academic workplace by Edited by Monika Krause et al.
Call Number: LB2335.845.U52N53 2008
Hard-pressed in the heartland : the Hormel strike and the future of the labor movement by by Peter Rachleff.
Call Number: HD5325.P152 1985.A877 1992

SMLR.