Unions


A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
No Shortcuts
A History of America in Ten Strikes
The Last Ballad
For the Win
The Four Winds
The Cold Millions
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
The Women of the Copper Country
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Uprising
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWork, Health, and Environment by Charles LevensteinTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsAt the Point of Production by Charles Levenstein
Work, Health and Environment
96 books — 39 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
105 books — 32 voters
The Lords of the Realm by John HelyarMoneyball by Michael   LewisBall Four by Jim BoutonA Well-Paid Slave by Brad  SnyderEight Men Out by Eliot Asinof
Baseball: Behind the Diamond
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Anger Is a Gift by Mark OshiroTyler Johnson Was Here by Jay ColesI Am Alfonso Jones by Tony  MedinaDear Martin by Nic StoneThis Stranger, My Son by Elizabeth Gillette Baker
Radical YA Books
49 books — 4 voters
The Colour of Magic by Terry PratchettMr. and Mrs. X, Vol. 1 by Kelly ThompsonForerunner Foray by Andre NortonThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchStar Wars by Rodney  Barnes
Speculative Guilds & Unions
5 books — 1 voter

R.A. Spratt
Hello Mrs Cannon,' said Melanie. 'Friday wants me to distract you so that she can get Parker to say something that isn't on his official scripts.' 'Really?' said Mrs Cannon. 'That sounds intriguing. Much more intriguing than this unspeakably boring polo match. Why don't you pretend to sprain your ankle, then I could pretend to be concerned?' 'Okay,' said Melanie. 'Does that mean I can lie down?' 'I wouldn't dream of trying to stop you,' said Mrs Cannon. 'I just wish I could do the same.' 'You co ...more
R.A. Spratt, Big Trouble

I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely consolidated until the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. All of my grandparents were fully sentient and aware of their social environments, if not full adults, before the order's features took definite shape and assumed the form of normal politics and everyday life. And during the roughly three decades or so between the regime's consolidation and its s ...more
Adolph L. Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

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