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"Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading."
--Studs Terkel

"The stories are dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can quite adequately provide."
--Peter Rachleff, Journal of American History

Available for the first time in paperback, Meatpackers provides an important...

THE DAY MOYSHE TUSHMAN BECAME A FOUNTAIN PEN is a humorous novel that you will continue to read until the end of the final chapter.

You will be enlightened when you read about Moyshes Famous Ancestors. The family name was originally Zitsontush until Moyshes Great Grandfather Herman Zitsontush changed the family name to Tushman when he arrived at Ellis Island in the Port of New York City. Herman lived in Bupkis, Europe until he came to America in 1893 to escape the relentless nagging of his wife Chutzpah. Adam and Eva Zitsontush were Moyshes first and most famous ancestors. Avrohom...

The author, analyzing major social groups in this area, treats particularly the "new middle class," a group socially isolated from the traditional life of Islam and committed to a wide-ranging modernizing impulse.

Originally published in 1963.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal...

"The book teems with eccentric characters and scenes that made my skin crawl.... Explained simply, read easily, Bad Paper defies expectations. It should also raise quite a few alarms."-Colin Dwyer, NPR

The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than it does about any activity besides identity theft. In Bad Paper, journalist Jake Halpern reveals why. He tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"-the uncollected debts that are...