Jeremy Brecher

On the movement by Jai Prakash Narain for the ouster of prime minister Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984, which led to the imposition of internal emergency in India, June 1975-January 1977.

Back cover: "In this `global economy repair manual', Brecher and Costello document the economic, political, social, and environmental effects of the New World Economy, and describe how ... activists around the world have started challenging them. Opposition to economic globalisation, the authors argue, is becoming a worldwide revolt."

For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their efforts for a better life. What is hidden from them is their own legacy, the heritage of culture and struggle handed on from other generations of working people. This book represents a new approach to history. It attempts to pass on that history from one group of workers to other workers, especially as workers and unions are at a crossroads, facing deteriorating conditions and even the permanent loss of jobs. But workers have faced these problems before, and surmounted them. This book can help all understand that our collective history helps us to face the challenges of the present and ones yet unknown of tomorrow. -- Publisher description.

A teachers' strike upsets the life of a high school student who has good friends among the teachers and a father on the school board.