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In "American Labor and American Democracy," William English Walling
drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders
of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the
authoritative history of the labor movement in the first quarter of
the twentieth century. Walling's position was that
twentieth-century American democracy was not stagnant. It was a
living, developing trend in society, with the AFL as its most
progressive force. There could be no passive acceptance of American
institutions as they stood: government in the twentieth century
would need to develop into a medium for attaining social ideals and
needs beyond individual realization. The aim of American labor was
a pluralistic economic democracy in which government and industry
would be guided by economic organizations representing not only
labor, but every essential social group. Richard Schneirov, in his
introduction to this new edition of a classic book, paints a rich
and detailed picture of Walling's political and intellectual
journey, and of his many contributions to the synthesis of
democratic and socialist principles. "American Labor and American
Democracy" is an important work that will help reevaluate our
understanding of labor and working-class history, establish a new
perspective on today's labor movement, and shed light on the
relationship of labor to socialism, capitalism, democracy, and
social movements; the nature of the large business corporation; and
the relationship of special interest groups to democracy. William
English Walling (1877-1936) was a social reform activist who helped
found the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903 and the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
He authored several influential works, including "Socialism as it
Is: A Survey of the World-Wide Revolutionary Movement," "The Larger
Aspects of Socialism," "Progessivism and After," and "The
Socialists and the War." Richard Schneirov is professor of history
at Indiana State University, and has also taught at The Ohio State
University and the Institut f3r England und Amerikastudien at the
University of Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of "Labor and
Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
in Chicago, 1864-97," which was awarded the Urban History
Association's prize for best urban history in North America for
1998 and co-edited "The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the
1890s."
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Suzy Suzy (Paperback)
William Wall; Narrated by Sarah-Jane Scott
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A startling and gripping novel, Suzy, Suzy follows a teenage girl
trying to understand the chaos of her family life. Suzy lives in a
dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is
keeping secrets; and her brother only seems to egg on their
parents' erratic and unpredictable behaviour. Alongside her
friends, Suzy finds herself drawn into the downward spiral of her
parents' relationship, and as a result is drawn into the centre of
a mystery surrounding a murder. Forced to make impossible choices,
Suzy must navigate the increasingly disturbing antics of her family
and the oddities of the mystery she finds herself involved in,
while also trying to survive the horrors of secondary school.
Narrated by a troubled young woman, the novel weaves a tale of
secrets, lies and betrayal in the pressure cooker of her formative
years. William Wall is an underrated Irish master with a powerful,
distinctive writing style, and an uncanny ability to create
astonishingly complex and well-realised female protagonists.
Seven years in the making, the themes of this book - politics,
desire, terror, love, loss, and flight - have powerful resonance
today, after Ireland's disastrous economic crash. It takes its
title from the vast developments of surplus houses all over
Ireland, built in the glory of the Celtic Tiger, and now eerily
empty. William Wall is the author of two previous collections of
poetry, four novels, and a volume of short fiction. He has won
numerous prizes including the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the
Listowel Writers' Week prize, and been nominated for many more,
including the Man Booker Prize.
In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and
ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human
nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and
revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the
people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides.
Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age,
their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the
sisters' lives, each taking place on an island - in southwest
Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and
sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character,
and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.
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Grace's Day (Paperback)
William Wall
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An Irish Independent Book of the Year.
As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville.
'An underrated veteran at the peak of his powers' Sunday Times.
'It's this mood of lives irreparably spoiled that make this bitter-tasting tale so potent' Daily Mail.
Grace and her mother and sisters live on an island off the west coast of Ireland. Their father is a successful writer of travel books that advocate a simpler way of life, though he is so seldom there that his family become the subjects of his social experiments and his children's freedom is indistinguishable from poverty.
Grace and Jeannie take turns to look after their little sister Emily. Then one day – Grace's day – a terrible tragedy occurs that changes everything. This is novel about a world of adult self-indulgence and the consequences of careless decisions and dishonest compromises.
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