New Labor

Breastfeeding Doesn't Have To Suck: A Practical Guide Comprehensive Guidance: Navigate from birth through early feeding challenges with expert advice and real-life experiences. Realistic Approach: Addressing the pressure and concerns faced by today's mothers with balanced insights. Expert Insight: Insights from lactation consultants and current research to inform your breastfeeding journey. Overcoming Challenges: Strategies to combat nipple damage, manage milk supply anxieties, and handle formula guilt. Practical Tips: From latch techniques to building a sustainable milk supply, practical ...

Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the 20th century. Based on extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins' family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted public servant with a passionate personal life, a mother who changed the landscape of American business and society.

The classic guide to an unmedicated childbirth, fully revised for the twenty-first century with updated information. For women birthing vaginally, 90% of Bradley births are drug-free! The Bradley Method, used and praised by women for almost seventy years, prepares you for drug and...

A powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother’s mysterious death while reimagining women’s health care from a mobile clinic—for readers of The Beauty in Breaking and The In-Between. In Labor: One Woman’s Work, Dr. Mary...

Étienne Lantier arrives in the mining town of Montsou unemployed and desperate. He finds work at Le Voreux mine, descending into hell: miners crawling through passages barely high enough to permit movement, working in suffocating heat, constantly threatened by cave-ins and explosions, earning wages insufficient to feed their families. Émile Zola published Germinal in 1885 after spending two weeks in the Anzin mining region, descending into pits, interviewing workers, documenting everything from extraction techniques to household budgets. He arrived during a 56-day strike involving over ...

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington, DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change, to outlast their bosses in labor fights, and to hold elected leaders accountable.

An acclaimed author and psychoanalyst shares moving true stories from his practice to explore the central question of our lives: How do we find and keep love? “A profound meditation on love and healing. Powerful and important. Essential reading.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated In these...

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care When Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything...

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later. It is a time of...

From that moment where the positive sign first turns up on a pregnancy test, to baby’s first bath, Elizabeth Idowu (@mamadinya) is here to answer all your pregnancy and birthing questions. I’m Pregnant…Now What? is the ultimate handbook for your pregnancy journey. No question will be left...

“. . . a human and historical document of compelling interest.” — The Atlantic Powerful and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic patience, endurance, and religious conviction of a man whose life embodied the Christian ideals that sustained him. While ministering in Eastern...

There is an old world fading out with a new world coming in. This story represents where the two worlds meet. Steelworker, Geronimo 'Mo" Fields, is unexpectedly placed into leadership as a union steward and questions his future in the steel industry as he tries to deescalate tension between a supervisor and angry co-workers that want to strike while contract negotiations with the company are about to expire.

The oldest surviving philosophy of work, justice, and what it means to live in hard times. Nearly three thousand years ago, a Boeotian farmer named Hesiod sat down to tell his brother the truth: that the gods have hidden the good life from mortals, that work is the price of survival, and that justice — fragile, cosmic, indifferent to power — is the only thing standing between civilization and collapse. Works and Days is one of the founding texts of Western literature — and one of the least read. While Homer sang of heroes, Hesiod sang of the field, the season, the neighbor's debt, and...

From the founder of That’s Inappropriate—one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web—comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood. Meredith Masony founded That’s Inappropriate in 2014 as an innocent and humorous way to chronicle her...

Frances Perkins was the most influential woman in global politics in the first half of the 20th century - and yet is virtually unknown, especially outside her native USA. For 20 years in New York State she developed her philosophy and the programme which became Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, then 12 years implementing it as the first woman to sit in the US Cabinet (1933-45). All of this took place against the background of a challenging family life. Factory safety, child labour, poverty pay are all issues which should have been resolved by now, but in reality they have been pushed down the ...

Ruth Alderman kept her secrets close. But she also made sure they could be found. When estate agent Owen Marsh calls vintage shop owner Nora Blackwell about a clearance job, he warns her there are woven things she should see before he decides what to do with them. Nora has learned to trust that kind of call. Ruth Alderman lived alone in her Millbrook home for forty years, keeping to herself and leaving almost nothing behind. But in the back bedroom — a weaving room now missing its loom — sits a cedar chest holding hand-woven textiles of remarkable precision. And tucked inside, a single ...

Becoming a first-time mom is beautiful, emotional, and life-changing — but it can also feel overwhelming. First Time Mom: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond walks you through every stage with compassion and confidence. From taking your first prenatal vitamins to holding your baby for the first time, Angel Whitney shares practical advice, modern insights, and the real truths every mom should know. Inside this empowering guide, you’ll discover: • How to prepare for doctor visits and understand each trimester • What to do when your water breaks — step-by-step guidance • ...

The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review). ​ In late 2006, Saket Soni...

In December 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad. His crime: reading banned socialist literature in a discussion group. The Tsar's "mercy" arrived at the last moment—death sentence commuted to four years hard labor in Siberia. The mock execution was deliberate psychological torture. Memoirs from the House of the Dead emerged from those four years at Omsk prison. Presented as the fragmentary manuscripts of nobleman Alexander Goryanchikov, imprisoned for murdering his wife, the work documents what Dostoevsky witnessed: beatings with birch rods, winter labor in killing ...

Bloomsbury presents A Northern Wind by David Kynaston, read by Mark Meadows. A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can...