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Labor Unions Books

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
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Lists

The Radium Girls by Kate MooreA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaTriangle by David von DrehleAutobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesWe Just Keep Running the Line by Laguana Gray
Women's Labor Histories
148 books — 35 voters
Migrant Crisis by John SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
75 books — 69 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
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)
245 books — 22 voters

Quotes Tagged “Labor Unions”

“ The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of the intrinsic worth of his ability. Labor unions and collective bargaining arose to give him some show of power and dignity. ”
― Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times
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Carlos Wallace
“ If retail giants are claiming shortages on the first day of a strike, it's obvious they are using the situation as an opportunity to raise prices and increase profits. ...more ”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
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Videos Tagged “Labor Unions”

Book Trailer: FANNIE NEVER FLINCHED
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Groups Tagged "Labor Unions"

Just a fancy name for a book club for those interested in progressive writers and topics centred…more
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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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Reading list to understand South Florida's history and the shaping of its politics.…more
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