Unions


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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
A History of America in Ten Strikes
The Last Ballad
For the Win
The Four Winds
The Cold Millions
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
The Women of the Copper Country
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Uprising
The Boxcar Librarian
Towards a Libertarian Socialism by G.D.H. ColeGuild Socialism Restated by G.D.H. ColeKeir Hardie & the 21st Century Socialist Revival by Pauline BryanHow I Became a Socialist by William MorrisThe State In Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband
British Socialism
15 books — 1 voter

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
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWork, Health, and Environment by Charles LevensteinTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsAt the Point of Production by Charles Levenstein
Work, Health and Environment
98 books — 41 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
106 books — 33 voters

Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file. ...more
Sidney Lens, The Crisis of American Labor

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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