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
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
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
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Lists

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
218 books — 117 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)
243 books — 20 voters

Hard Times by Studs TerkelThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganA Square Meal by Jane ZiegelmanHammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. KelleyDaily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David E. Kyvig
Hard Times: The Great Depression in the US (nonfiction)
137 books — 11 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

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)
136 books — 30 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

Quotes Tagged “Labor History”

“ 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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