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2) Germinal
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"Germinal" est un roman célèbre d'Émile Zola publié au XIXe siècle. L'histoire se déroule dans le Nord de la France pendant la Révolution industrielle et suit la vie d'Étienne Lantier, un jeune mineur qui s'oppose à l'exploitation des travailleurs par les propriétaires des mines. Le livre dépeint les conditions de travail éprouvantes des mineurs, ainsi que les tensions entre les travailleurs et les propriétaires des mines. Étienne Lantier...
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Bradleyville volume 1
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Jessie is torn betyween the pacifist teachings of her revered dead mother and the very real struggle of important men in her current life when threats of a labor strike rumble through Bradleyville.
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DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery volume 5
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"The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that's exactly what it gets when a retired miner called Len Hopkins is found battered to death in his outside lavatory"--Dust jacket flap.
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Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.
Lula Viramontes dreams of one day becoming someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling carpa, despite her father's traditional views of what girls should be. When her family arrives for the grape harvest in Delano, California, Lula meets activist Dolores Huerta...