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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,571 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 839 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,283 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as labor)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,347 ratings — published 2016
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,093 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 60 times as labor)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,948 ratings — published 2001
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,047 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as labor)
avg rating 4.33 — 895 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 46 times as labor)
avg rating 4.43 — 474 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,399 ratings — published 1906
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,777 ratings — published 1974
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as labor)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,202 ratings — published 2006
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.11 — 978 ratings — published 2010
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as labor)
avg rating 4.29 — 865 ratings — published 1974
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,086 ratings — published 1975
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 115 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,671 ratings — published 1963
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 796 ratings — published 2019
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,323 ratings — published 1990
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as labor)
avg rating 3.91 — 140 ratings — published 1987
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 250 ratings — published 1991
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 264 ratings — published 2006
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 981,779 ratings — published 1939
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,548 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.68 — 193,105 ratings — published 1848
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.12 — 228 ratings — published
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.26 — 438 ratings — published 2022
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.05 — 95 ratings — published 1995
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 169 ratings — published 2002
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,353 ratings — published 1991
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.84 — 271 ratings — published 1955
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.61 — 101 ratings — published
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.33 — 586 ratings — published 2015
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 462 ratings — published 1986
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,974 ratings — published 1936
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 451 ratings — published 2019
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.86 — 182 ratings — published 1998
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 56 ratings — published
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 73 ratings — published 2011
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 183 ratings — published 2008
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.06 — 456 ratings — published 2005
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 418 ratings — published 2024
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 823 ratings — published 2017
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.16 — 231 ratings — published 2011
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 393 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,665 ratings — published 2003
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 3.82 — 275 ratings — published 2000
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,278 ratings — published 2018
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.16 — 612 ratings — published 2011
“If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.”
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