Dana Frank

Author of Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century

About the Author

Dana Frank is professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of many books, including Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup, her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras have appeared show more in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Affairs, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament. show less

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Works by Dana Frank

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005) 87 copies

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999) 39 copies

The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup (2018) 38 copies

Wine Food: New Adventures in Drinking and Cooking [A Recipe Book] (2018) 37 copies

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994) 35 copies

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down (2012) 24 copies

Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments (2007) 20 copies

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times (2024) 14 copies

Get Up And Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy and Wealth (2024) 3 copies

The Moon Can Tell: A Novel (2018) 1 copy

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Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 119 copies

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