Labor Unions


Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
The Women of the Copper Country
The Last Ballad
Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights
The Jungle
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
The Cold Millions
A History of America in Ten Strikes
Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Work Song (Morrie Morgan #2)
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Why Unions Matter
Poverty, by America
...the hope that the day will not be far distant when it will be popularly considered that to lose life by accident in productive and distributive industry is just as noble and heroic as to lose it by accident on board a man of war. That to lose life by being drowned like a rat in as mine is just as worthy as being drowned like a rat in the hold of an ironclad. That to lose a limb by an exploding shell is no more worthy of national consideration than to lose one in a rolling mill. That to be blo ...more
D. Douglas Wilson

Jane Little Botkin
IWW General Headquarters was collecting information regarding past free speech fights in response to a request from the U.S. Committee on Industrial Relations. Believing the “publicity to be worth the work it will entail,” Vincent St. John made an appeal in Solidarity one week before the September convention. Anyone who had first-hand experience was asked to submit personal narratives, pamphlets, bulletins, reports, and detailed histories regarding the various free speech fights. …. The committe ...more
Jane Little Botkin, Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family

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The Young Women's Committee of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (YWC/CLUW) in Philadelphia has…more
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