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A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,048 ratings — published 2018
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 839 ratings — published 2010
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 140 ratings — published 1987
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 264 ratings — published 2006
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 180,707 ratings — published 2016
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 976 ratings — published 2010
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,670 ratings — published 1963
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as labor-history)
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 8 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,353 ratings — published 1991
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,321 ratings — published 1990
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 461 ratings — published 1986
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,202 ratings — published 2006
Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (Labor in Crisis)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 35 ratings — published 1983
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,662 ratings — published 2003
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,104 ratings — published 1990
We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 83 ratings — published 1969
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,086 ratings — published 1975
Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 28 ratings — published 2015
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 328 ratings — published 2011
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 518 ratings — published 1977
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,369 ratings — published 1980
History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 51 ratings — published 1965
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 270 ratings — published 1955
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,565 ratings — published 2022
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 134 ratings — published
Labor and Communism: The Conflict That Shaped American Unions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1977
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 56 ratings — published
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 275 ratings — published 2000
History of the Labor Movement in the United States: From Colonial Times to the Foundation of the American Federation of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 33 ratings — published 1947
Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 94 ratings — published 2007
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 142 ratings — published 2001
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 77 ratings — published 2011
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 312 ratings — published 1949
The Haymarket Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 99 ratings — published 1984
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 649 ratings — published 2008
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 387 ratings — published 2023
Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 92 ratings — published 1999
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 431 ratings — published 2019
Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 60 ratings — published 1974
A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism (Working Class in American History)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2012
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 95 ratings — published 1995
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 583 ratings — published 2015
Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 32 ratings — published 1979
AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2010
The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 1960
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 45 ratings — published 1989
The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW & Syndicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 109 ratings — published 1968
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 362 ratings — published 2008
Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 61 ratings — published 1994
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