Showing posts with label labor history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor history. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Books To Teach Children About Labor History

I. Child Labor
Atkins, S. Beth. 2000. Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories. NY: Little, Brown.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. 2003. Kids on Strike. NY: Sandpiper.
---------------------------------. 1999. Growing Up In Coal Country. Toronto: Groundwood Press.
Carter, Anne Laurel. 2008. Out of the Deeps. Illustrated by Nicholas Debon. Orca Book Publishers.
Engfer, Lee, Robert Conrow and Leanna Engfer. 1997. Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children. Photographs by David L. Parker. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner.
Freedman, Russell. 1998. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine an the Crusade Against Child Labor. NY: Sandpiper
Kielburger, Craig and Kevin Major. 1999. Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World. NY: Harper Perennial.
Potter Tracey. 2008. Billy Creekmore: A Novel. NY: HarperCollins.
Robinson, J. Dennis. 2010. Striking Back: The Fight to End Child Labor Exploitation. Compass Point Books.
Wallace, Ian. 2005. Boy of the Deeps. Toronto: Groundwood Books.
Winthrop, Elizabeth. 2007. Counting on Grace. NY Yearling.

II. Labor Unions/Labor Strikes/Struggle to Work

Auch, Mary Jane. 2002. Ashes of Roses. NY: Holt.   
Baker, Julie. 2002. Up Molasses Mountain. NY: Wendy Lamb Book.
Bunting, Eve. 1997. A Day's Work. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. NY:  Sandpiper.
Burgan, Michael. 2008. The Pullman Strike of 1894. Compass Point Books.
Cohn, Diane. 2005. Si, Se Puede!/Yes We Can!: Janitors Strike in L.A. Illustrated by Francisco Delgado. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Goldin, Barbara Diamond. 1997. Fire! The Beginnings of the Labor Movement. NY: Puffin.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. 2007. Uprising. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Harnes, Cheryl. 2007. Rabble Rousers: Twenty Women Who Made a Difference. NY: Dutton.
Hughes, Pat. 2004. The Breaker Boys. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Landau, Elaine. 2009. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. NY: Children's Press.
Lawrence, Katherine. 2006. Labor Legislation: the Struggle to Gain Rights for American Workforce (The Progressive Movement: 1900-1920: Efforts to Reform American's New Industrial Society). NY: Rosen.

Lyon, George Ella. 2011. Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song. Illustrated by Christopher Cardinale. El Pas, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Matas, Carol. 2003. Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! NY Alddin.
McNeese, Tim. 2007. The Labor Movement: Unionizing America. Chelsea House Publications.
Perez, N.A. 2002. Breaker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Roberts-Davis, Tonya. 2004. We Need to Go to School: Voices from the Rugmark Children. Toronto: Groundwood Press.
Shea, Peggy Deitz. 2006. The Carpet Boy's Gift. Illustrated by Leane Morin. Teabury House Publishers.
Skyrzynski, Gloria. 2008. Sweat and Blood. A History of U.S Labor Unions. Minneapolis MN: Twenty-First Century Books.
Springer, Jane. 1997. Listen to Us: The World's Working Children.  Toronto: Groundwood Press.

III. Biographies of Labor Leaders
Anaya, Rudolfo. 2000. Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. 2005. Cesar. Si, Se Puede!/Yes We Can! Illustrated by David Diaz. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Brown, Monica. 2010. Side by Side/Lado a lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. NY: Rayo.
Christensen, Bonnie. 2001. Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People. NY: Knopf.
Del Catillo, Richard Griswold. 2008. Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice/Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia. Illustated by Anthony Accardo. Ttanslated by Jose Juan Colin. Pinata Books.
Doak, Robin S. 2008. Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist. Compass Point Books.
Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. 1996. Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Worker's Rights. Minneapolis MN: Lerner Books.
Kraft, Betsy Harvey. 1995. Mother Jones: One Woman's Fights for Labor. NY: Clarion.
Krull, Kathleen. 2003. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales. San Diego, Ca; Harcourt.
Miller, Connie Colwell. 2007. Mother Jones: Labor Leader. Illustrated by Steve Erwin. Charles Barnett, III. Captsone Press.
Soto, Gary. 2003. Cesar Chavez: A Hero for Everyone. Illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter. NY: Aladdin.
Stanley, Jerry. 1996. Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution. NY: Knopf.


IV. Local Activism
Din, Anne Bar. 1999. The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale. Illustrated by Domitilia Dominguez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
DiSalvo-Ryan. DyAnne. 2000. Grandpa's Corner Store.  NY: HarperCollins.
Halpin, Mikki. 2004. It's Your World Too. If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers. NY: Simon Pulse.
Hoose, Philip. 2002. It's Our World Too: Young People Making a Difference and How You Can Too. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Moore, Anne Elizabeth and . 2004. Hey Kidz! Buy this Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Activism for Short People. Illustrated by Megan Kelso. Soft Skull Press/Publishers West.