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Labour History


Labour History Books

The Making of the English Working Class
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction
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Soviet Workers and Sta...
 
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Donald Filtzer
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (Heritage)
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series)
The Romance of American Communism
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (Working Class in American History)
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Lists

On the Line by Rod MickleburghUnion Zindabad! by Donna SacutaThe Company by Stephen R. BownDominion by Stephen R. BownKlondikers by Tim Falconer
Work and Workers in Canada
22 books — 1 voter
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
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)
91 books — 25 voters