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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

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
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

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
839 books — 423 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

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)
139 books — 33 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)
140 books — 14 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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“ 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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