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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as labor)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,717 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 864 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,561 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as labor)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,485 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 65 times as labor)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,783 ratings — published 2001
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,877 ratings — published 2018
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,170 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as labor)
avg rating 4.31 — 987 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 49 times as labor)
avg rating 4.46 — 495 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as labor)
avg rating 3.79 — 157,743 ratings — published 1906
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,933 ratings — published 1974
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as labor)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,023 ratings — published 2010
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 4.07 — 1,252 ratings — published 2006
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as labor)
avg rating 4.30 — 909 ratings — published 1974
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 116 ratings — published 2008
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as labor)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,403 ratings — published 1990
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,766 ratings — published 1963
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 827 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 147 ratings — published 1987
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,106 ratings — published 1975
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 — 255 ratings — published 1991
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 265 ratings — published 2006
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,064 ratings — published 1939
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,509 ratings — published 1980
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.11 — 263 ratings — published
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 174 ratings — published 2002
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.69 — 208,914 ratings — published 1848
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 469 ratings — published 2022
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,027 ratings — published 1936
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.62 — 114 ratings — published
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 672 ratings — published 2015
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 193 ratings — published 2008
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.03 — 96 ratings — published 1995
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,384 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 3.86 — 284 ratings — published 1955
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 461 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 65 ratings — published
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 4.42 — 496 ratings — published 1986
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 74 ratings — published 2011
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.83 — 291 ratings — published 2000
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.88 — 183 ratings — published 1998
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 476 ratings — published 2024
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.17 — 242 ratings — published 2011
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.05 — 462 ratings — published 2005
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 677 ratings — published 2008
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 883 ratings — published 2017
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.14 — 656 ratings — published 2011
Autobiography Of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.12 — 427 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,904 ratings — published 2003
“Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?”
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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
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