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A History of America in Ten Strikes
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
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Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
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Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
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By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
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AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition (Volume 16) (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
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The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
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Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss
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Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
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Short History of the U.S. Working Class
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960
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I.W.W. Songs
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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The West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
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Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio
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Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6)
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
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All Labor Has Dignity
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
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Labor's Troubadour
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
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What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920
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Socialist & Labor Songs of the 1930s
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
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The Knights of Labor in the South
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Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
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Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
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Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California
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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
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4.06 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series)
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series)
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
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Slavery in the Land of the Free: A Student's Guide to Modern Day Slavery
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
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