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Labor Movement Books

A History of America in Ten Strikes
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
No Shortcuts
The Women of the Copper Country
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
The Last Ballad
The Jungle
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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City in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. ColemanBread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonBread and Roses by Bruce Watson
Bread and Roses
12 books — 2 voters
The Duchess War by Courtney MilanA Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Courting Campaign by Regina ScottThe Triangle Shirtwaist Factory by Charity Barger
Labor Day: Romance Featuring the Labor Movement
53 books — 13 voters

The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonMy Red Blood by Alix DobkinNaming Names by Victor S. Navasky
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
173 books — 8 voters
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
55 books — 7 voters

The Duchess War by Courtney MilanVengeance Is Sacred by Peter HealyToo Dangerous For a Lady by Jo BeverleyClimbing the Date Palm by Shira GlassmanNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Organize! Romances Featuring Labor Strikes
15 books — 6 voters
The Radium Girls by Kate MooreA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaTriangle by David von DrehleAutobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesWe Just Keep Running the Line by Laguana Gray
Women's Labor Histories
148 books — 35 voters

Quotes Tagged “Labor Movement”

Pete Buttigieg
“ In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the university’s president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters. Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Poli ...more ”
― Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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“ The essence of leadership is not to portray yourself as some sort of know-it-all, but your ability to develop the people you are working with so they themselves can take the initiative and do the organizational drive. ”
― Pat Chambers
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