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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,642 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 849 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,426 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,414 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 65 times as labor)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,988 ratings — published 2001
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,196 ratings — published 2018
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,122 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 948 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 47 times as labor)
avg rating 4.45 — 488 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,734 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 — 5,879 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 — 1,230 ratings — published 2006
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004 ratings — published 2010
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.29 — 883 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 — 115 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,729 ratings — published 1963
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,093 ratings — published 1975
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,374 ratings — published 1990
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 813 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 3.93 — 147 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 — 254 ratings — published 1991
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,602 ratings — published 1980
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 — 1,004,078 ratings — published 1939
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 4.08 — 251 ratings — published
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 97 ratings — published 1995
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,961 ratings — published 1848
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,514 ratings — published 1936
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 170 ratings — published 2002
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 4.24 — 455 ratings — published 2022
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 — 2,365 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 3.85 — 276 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 4.62 — 112 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 4.32 — 631 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 — 481 ratings — published 1986
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 189 ratings — published 2008
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 454 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 61 ratings — published
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.88 — 181 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 — 456 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 4.16 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 74 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 — 458 ratings — published 2005
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.83 — 281 ratings — published 2000
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 — 856 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.14 — 414 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,805 ratings — published 2003
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.52 — 81 ratings — published 2024
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,467 ratings — published 2018
“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
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
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