Genres

Labor History


Labor History Books

A History of America in Ten Strikes
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (Labor in Crisis)
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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Lists

FDR by Jean Edward SmithNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinTraitor to His Class by H.W. BrandsThe Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Reading List (nonfiction)
135 books — 29 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)
89 books — 24 voters

The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonMy Red Blood by Alix DobkinNaming Names by Victor S. Navasky
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
172 books — 7 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
667 books — 359 voters

Quotes Tagged “Labor History”

Rich DiSilvio
“ In one breath, you fear the government getting involved with unions, welfare, or immigration laws all, in essence, aimed at helping our poor fellow Americanyet, in another breath, you look for tariffs and even subsidies. ”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
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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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