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1) The jungle
Author
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
2) The coworker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she...
3) New in town
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the popular British series of the same name, the American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras. Features earnest, but clueless, regional manager Michael Scott, who believes himself an exceptional boss, and his office staff, who tolerate Michael's inappropriate behavior only because he...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Mott finds herself juggling two jobs: her assistant chef position at Hotel Florence and her undercover work for the Pullman Rail Car Company. Olivia thinks the suggestions she relays to Pullman's town manager are being used to improve conditions for workers and save the company money, but is something much more sinister happening behind the scenes? Several months have passed since Lady Charlotte fled to Chicago, leaving her infant son in Olivia's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin--Paul Ryan's hometown--and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills--but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xvii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worst-updated with even more can't-standable people!
Dealing with People You Can't Stand has been helping good people deal with bad behavior in a positive, professional way for nearly two decades.
Unfortunately, as the world becomes smaller and time more compressed, new difficult people are being made all the time. So Kirschner and Brinkman have updated their global bestseller to help...
Author
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who hasn't had to deal with a jerk at work? Whether it's a toxic team member who loves nothing better than to suck the life and excitement out of her colleagues or a bad boss who causes his employees to constantly dream of telling him to "Take this job and shove it!" or the difficult co-worker who isn't happy unless the office is filled with mayhem and drama, we've all had to deal with people on the job we would rather not. Based on proven approaches...
14) Strike!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Rev. and updated ed.
Physical Desc
ii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Brecher's ‘Strike!’ narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes, violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is, told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. Encompassing the repeated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting that first job is an important rite of passage for many teens. However, teens entering the workplace need to be aware of their rights. Readers will learn about the protection the law offers in the event of an accident or harassment by a boss or coworkers. Other topics covered include child labor laws, applying for jobs, acing an interview, filling out the paperwork needed to start working, internships, workplace bullying, privacy at work,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York magazine's work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations--featuring all-new advice! There's a reason Alison Green has been called "the Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don't know what to say. Thankfully,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
848 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential social commentaries ever written, E. P. Thompson's approach to the history of the common people, its arguments, and its methods cemented his place as an essential twentieth-century intellectual During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class-the workers shaped...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
1530L
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.
Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 298 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Head over heels: Ordinary single girl Amanda unexpectedly finds herself sharing an awesome Manhattan apartment with four sexy supermodels. Life gets even better when Amanda connects with next-door charmer, Jim....
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience changed significantly during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. In this book, the author draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on the lives of migrants.