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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as labor)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,738 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 865 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 — 5,617 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as labor)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,498 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 65 times as labor)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,994 ratings — published 2001
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,327 ratings — published 2018
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,184 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 998 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 — 498 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as labor)
avg rating 3.79 — 158,446 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 — 5,960 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 — 1,030 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 — 1,259 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 — 912 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 — 1,412 ratings — published 1990
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 831 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 3.92 — 149 ratings — published 1987
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,772 ratings — published 1963
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,107 ratings — published 1975
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as labor)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,031,950 ratings — published 1939
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 255 ratings — published 1991
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.10 — 267 ratings — published
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 263 ratings — published 2006
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,013 ratings — published 1980
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 3.74 — 175 ratings — published 2002
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 472 ratings — published 2022
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.70 — 211,132 ratings — published 1848
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,193 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
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 463 ratings — published 2019
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 — 689 ratings — published 2015
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 195 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 4.04 — 97 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 — 2,389 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 3.87 — 285 ratings — published 1955
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 4.43 — 503 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 3.84 — 294 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 — 483 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 — 243 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
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 — 891 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 — 658 ratings — published 2011
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 683 ratings — published 2008
Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.46 — 63 ratings — published 1974
Autobiography Of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.12 — 431 ratings — published 1925
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
― Critique of the Gotha Program
― Critique of the Gotha Program
“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
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