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Labor History Books

A History of America in Ten Strikes
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (Labor in Crisis)
The Making of the English Working Class
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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Lists

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie Land
Books on Poverty and Inequality
232 books — 155 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
679 books — 370 voters

Upstairs at the White House by J.B. WestThe Residence by Kate Andersen BrowerSpeaking for Myself by Sarah Huckabee SandersAll the Presidents' Pastries by Roland MesnierInside the White House by Ronald Kessler
The Executive Mansion: Life and Work Inside the White House (nonfiction)
91 books — 25 voters
The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonNaming Names by Victor S. NavaskyMy Red Blood by Alix Dobkin
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
173 books — 8 voters

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
57 books — 38 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
246 books — 23 voters

Quotes Tagged “Labor History”

Rich DiSilvio
“ Down below, the intense heat and bright light stunned and blinded the trapped moles, so accustomed to darkness. ”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age
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“ Automation vs. human labor is a false dichotomy ”
― Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – An Urgent Investigation into the Invisible Human Labor Powering AI and the Digital Economy
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