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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,602 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 842 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 3.95 — 5,350 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,375 ratings — published 2016
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,901 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 62 times as labor)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,326 ratings — published 2001
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,076 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as labor)
avg rating 4.33 — 914 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 47 times as labor)
avg rating 4.44 — 479 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,230 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 — 5,816 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 — 1,208 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 — 989 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 — 870 ratings — published 1974
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 — 3,695 ratings — published 1963
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,087 ratings — published 1975
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 803 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 3.92 — 142 ratings — published 1987
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,347 ratings — published 1990
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 — 252 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 4.03 — 989,655 ratings — published 1939
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,989 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,355 ratings — published 1848
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 238 ratings — published
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 4.25 — 446 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 4.04 — 96 ratings — published 1995
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,181 ratings — published 1936
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 170 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 — 2,357 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 — 274 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 — 105 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 — 604 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 4.42 — 467 ratings — published 1986
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 455 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 59 ratings — published
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.87 — 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 4.22 — 432 ratings — published 2024
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 4.24 — 187 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
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 234 ratings — published 2011
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 837 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.16 — 399 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,721 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 3.83 — 275 ratings — published 2000
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,345 ratings — published 2018
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 627 ratings — published 2011
“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
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“A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
