Assigned Books (and any other Materials) by Course-for the Spring 2021 Semester
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COURSE NAME | INSTRUCTOR | BOOK NAME | AUTHOR | ISBN | EDITION |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE FOR PARAS | SETARE SALEHIARASHLOO | A People’s Art History Of the US | Nicolas Lambert | ||
CLASS, RACE AND GENDER | ELAINE KITT | Class, Race And Gender - all material are provided to the students along with selected chapters | |||
CLASS, RACE, AND GENDER | EZRA NANTON | The Color of Law | Richard Rothstein | ISBN-13: 9781631492853, Reprint | |
CLASS, RACE, AND GENDER | GISELLE CHALMERS-TURNER | More Than Just Race | William Julius Wilson | ISBN 9780393337631 | |
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | ELAINE KITT | The Labor Relations Process | Holley/Ross/Wolters | 078-1-305-57620-9 | 11th Edition |
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | ELAINE KITT | "The Van Arsdale Collective Bargaining book is not in the book store it is given to the students all materials; selected chapters and materials will be supplied" | |||
COLLEGE READING | DAVID SIBBITT | Student groups choose their own books to read together and buy them themselves | |||
COLLEGE WRITING FOR WORKERS | JESSICA D’ONOFRIO | America is in the Heart | Carlos Bulosan | 978-0143134039 | |
COLLEGE WRITING FOR WORKERS | SUSAN PENN | America is in the Heart | Carlos Bulosan | ISBN: 978-0-295-99353-9/2014 OR may be accessed online from HathiTrust Library | |
CONTEMPORARY LABOR ISSUES: IMMIGRATION | ZOË WEST | The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and a Hard Place | Judith Hellman | 9781595584489 | |
COST ESTIMATING | HA YEUNG (HENRY) YU | Fundamentals of Construction Estimating | David Pratt | ISBN13: 9781337399395, ISBN10: 1337399396 | 4th Edition |
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT | MAX NEUBERGER | The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present | Steve Babson | 9780847688296 | |
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT | MAX NEUBERGER | Out of This Furnace: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America | Thomas Bell | 9780822952732 | 1st Edition |
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT | MAX NEUBERGER | Working Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II | Joshua Freeman | 978-1-56584-712-5 | 1st Edition |
GLOBAL CIV.: WORKERS' PERSPECTIVES | SPENCER BASTEDO | There is no required book for this course; all readings are handouts and PDFs to be distributed | |||
GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS | BOB LAZAR | Guns, Germs & Steel (Additional Hand outs) |
Jared Diamond | ||
GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS | BOB LAZAR | How We Got to Now (Additional Hand outs) | Steven Johnson | ||
GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS: WORKERS' PERSPECTIVES | DARINI NICHOLAS | Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | 0-393-31755-2 | 1996 or Later Publication |
GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS: WORKERS' PERSPECTIVES | DARINI NICHOLAS | Origins of the Modern World | Robert Marks | 978-1-4422-1240-4 | 3rd Edition |
LABOR AND GLOBAL WORKPLACE | WENDY WEISMAN | Globalization: A Very Short Introduction | Manfred B. Steger | ISBN: 978-0-19-884945-2 | 5th Edition |
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | KATE SPAULDING | What Makes NYC Run? | League of Women Voters NYC | ||
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | CLAUDIA SHACTER-DECHABERT | Saving Capitalism For the many Not the Few | Robert Reich | 978-0-385-35057-0 or 978-0-385-35058-7 | 2015 |
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | BRENDAN GRIFFITH | Beaten Down, Worked Up | Steven Greenhouse | ISBN 9781101872796 | |
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | SHARON SZYMANSKI | Runaway Inequality | Les Leopold | 978-0-9990954-2-3 | 3rd Edition |
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | ANTHONY THOMAS | Listen, Liberal | Thomas Frank | ISBN13: 9781627795395 | |
LABOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS | ANTHONY THOMAS | Temp | Louis Hyman | ISBN13: 9780735224070 | |
LABOR AND THE ECONOMY | MOSHE ADLER | Economics for the Rest of Us | Moshe Adler | 978 1 59558 641 4 90000 | 1st Edition |
LABOR AND THE ECONOMY | MOSHE ADLER | 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism | Ha Joon Chang | 978 1 60819 338 7 | |
LABOR AND THE ECONOMY | BETHANY BINGHAM | Economics for the Rest of Us | Moshe Adler | 978-1-59558-641-4 | |
LABOR AND THE ECONOMY | BETHANY BINGHAM | 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes | Stephanie Greenwood | 9781595581617 | |
LABOR AND THE ECONOMY | KATE SPAULDING | Economics for the Rest of Us | Moshe Adler | ISBN-13 : 978-1595586414 | |
LABOR AND THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE | ALYSSA BONILLA | Economics: The User's Guide. Read | Ha-Joon Chang | 1620408147 | |
LABOR LAW | HALUK SAVCI | Labor Guide to Labor Law | Bruce Feldacker and Michael Hayes | 978-0-8014-5225-3 | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | The Stonemason | Cormac McCarthy | 978-0-8014-5225-3 | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | Sweat | Lynn Nottage | ISBN 978-0-8222-3764-8 (Dramatists Play Service Inc.) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | Waiting for Lefty | Clifford Odets | ISBN 978-0-8222-1215-3 (Dramatists Play Service Inc.) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | "A Song for Occupations" | Walt Whitman | The Whitman Archive (public domain) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | "On the Waterfront" (film) | Elia Kazan, director | 1954 -- the Internet Archive | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY HELEN KOLISNYK | "Nawabdin Electrician" | Daniyal Mueennuddin | Read in the New Yorker | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY ROMA | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 684800705 (Scribner paperback) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | MARY ROMA | Sweat | Lynn Nottage | 1559365323 ( Theatre Communications Group) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN E TELCHER | Waiting for Lefty | Clifford Odets | ISBN 978-0-8222-1215-3 (Dramatists Play Service Inc.) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN E TELCHER | Sweat | Lynn Nottage | ISBN#978-0-8222-3764-8 (Dramatists Play Service) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN E TELCHER | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Allan Sillitoe | ISBN 978-0-307-38964-0 (Vintage International) | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN E TELCHER | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka -( Stanley Corngold translation) | The Metamorphosis – ISBN 0-553-21369-5 (Bantam Classic) OR at Project Gutenberg | |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN TELCHER | "Nawabdin Electrician" [online text available from The New Yorker; audio text also available at The New Yorker) | Daniyal Mueenuddin | ||
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN TELCHER | On the Waterfront (Screened in Class) | Elia Kazan (Director) | ||
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | SUSAN TELCHER | "A Song for Occupations" and other poems hand out [provided by instructor] OR on the Whitman Archive: Text Alternate (TBA)– Lynn Nottage, Sweat Dramatist Play Service, ISBN 978-0-8222-3764-8 | Walt Whitman | ||
OSHA AND THE ENVIRONMENT | CHARLENE OBERNAUER | When the Water Comes | Jeff Goodell | 1st Edition | |
OSHA AND THE ENVIRONMENT | CHARLENE OBERNAUER | Death on the Job | Jonathan Karmel | 1st Edition | |
OUR WORLD TRADE CENTERS | ERIC DARTON | Divided We Stand: A Biography of the World Trade Center | Eric Darton | 978-0-465-02765-1 | |
OUR WORLD TRADE CENTERS | ERIC DARTON | The World Trade Center | Anthony W. Robins | 978-0-983-2275-0-2 | |
PRINCIPLES OF TRADE UNIONISM | STEVE LAWTON | Why Unions Matter | Michael Yates | ISBN: 978-1-58367-190-0 | 2nd Edition |
PRINCIPLES OF TRADE UNIONISM | STEVE LAWTON | The Union Member's Complete Guide: Everything You Want--and Need--to Know about Working Union | Michael Mauer | 0-9659486-1-7 | |
PRINCIPLES OF TRADE UNIONISM | STEVE LAWTON | Harry Van Arsdale, Jr.-Labor's Champion | Gene Ruffini | 9781317468912 | |
PRINCIPLES OF TRADE UNIONISM | RICHARD WELLS | Why Unions Matter | Michael D. Yates | ISBN 978-1-58367-190-0 | 2nd Edition |
PRINCIPLES OF TRADE UNIONISM | RICHARD WELLS | Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor | Steven Greenhouse | ISBN-13 : 978-1101872796 | Paperback Edition |
U.S. LABOR HISTORY | ANNA LANE WINDHAM | The Voice of the People | Jonathan Rees; Jonathan Z.S. Pollack | 0-88295-225-0 | |
U.S. LABOR HISTORY | ANNA LANE WINDHAM | American Workers, American Unions | Robert H. Zieger; Timothy J. Minchin Gilbert J. Gall | ISBN 13: 9781421413433 | 4th Edition |
U.S. LABOR HISTORY | ANNA LANE WINDHAM | From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend | Priscilla Murolo; A.B. Chitty | 9781620974483 | Revised and Updated |
WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY IN TRADES | SHARON SZYMANSKI | We'll Call You If We Need You | Susan Eisenberg | 1501719769 with a new preface | Revised and Updated |
WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY IN TRADES | SHARON SZYMANSKI | Finding Time | Heather Boushey | 9780674241497 | |
WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY IN TRADES | SHARON SZYMANSKI | Feminism Unfinished | Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry | 978-1-63149-054 | |
WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY IN TRADES | SHARON SZYMANSKI | Stanley's Girls (poems) | Susan Eisenberg | ISBN 9781501719707 | |
WORKERS/ARTISTS | BARRIE CLINE | Hands:Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work | Janet Zandy | 0-8135-3435-6 | |
WORKING-CLASS THEMES IN LITERATURE | REBECCA FRASER | America Is in the Heart | Carlos Bulosan | ISBN: 978-0-14-313403-9 | Edition: Penguin |
WORKING-CLASS THEMES IN LITERATURE | REBECCA FRASER | The Color of Water | James McBride | ISBN: 978-1-59448-192-5 | Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback 10th Anniversary |
WORKING-CLASS THEMES IN LITERATURE | REBECCA FRASER | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations | Mira Jacobs | ISBN: 978-0-399-58906-5 (2020) | One World Trade Paperback Edition |