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Labor Movement Books
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A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,031 ratings — published 2018
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,544 ratings — published 2022
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.18 — 795 ratings — published 2019
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.33 — 880 ratings — published 2020
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.23 — 407 ratings — published 2024
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,340 ratings — published 2016
The Women of the Copper Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,210 ratings — published 2019
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,195 ratings — published 2006
The Last Ballad (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,312 ratings — published 2017
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,890 ratings — published 1906
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.19 — 835 ratings — published 2010
The Pecan Sheller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.87 — 63 ratings — published
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.48 — 379 ratings — published 2023
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,303 ratings — published 1990
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Working Class in American History)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 1983
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.26 — 435 ratings — published 2022
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.91 — 140 ratings — published 1987
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.12 — 224 ratings — published
American Trade Unionism Principles, Organization, (New World Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.45 — 38 ratings — published 1947
Automation and the Future of Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.88 — 644 ratings — published 2020
Teamster Rebellion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.51 — 243 ratings — published 1972
The Cold Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,122 ratings — published 2020
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,571 ratings — published 2018
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.19 — 445 ratings — published 2019
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,650 ratings — published 1963
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.75 — 168 ratings — published 2002
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.29 — 859 ratings — published 1974
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,084 ratings — published 1975
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,626 ratings — published 2003
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.83 — 267 ratings — published 1955
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,225 ratings — published 1848
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.65 — 94 ratings — published 2014
The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW & Syndicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.80 — 109 ratings — published 1968
Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.20 — 40 ratings — published 2001
Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.36 — 113 ratings — published 2003
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,246 ratings — published 1980
No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor's War at Hormel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1989
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published
The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.89 — 27 ratings — published
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.97 — 315 ratings — published 2014
Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published
Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.18 — 99 ratings — published 1992
Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 3.93 — 102 ratings — published 2015
Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 2012
Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 1969
At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 4.41 — 64 ratings — published
GUIDE TO PRIMARY SOURCES IN OHIO LABOR HISTORY (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Fifty years of fortitude: A history of U.A.W. Local 863, Cincinnati, Ohio (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Unceasing Struggle a Chronology of Ohio Labor History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as labor-movement)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the university’s president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters.
Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Politics” session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests […] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House”
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Politics” session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests […] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House”
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
“It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpaid or underpaid labor.”
― This Is What I Know About Art
― This Is What I Know About Art
