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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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4.49 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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4.41 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,284 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,112 ratings
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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3.83 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Pages from a Worker's Life
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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4.19 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Child Labor: An American History (Issues in Work and Human Resources
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left
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3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker
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3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
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3.96 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,720 ratings
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A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
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3.95 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
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3.83 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Short History of the U.S. Working Class
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3.86 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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4.04 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings
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On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
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4.10 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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4.24 avg rating — 5,814 ratings
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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
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3.76 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
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4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Doing History from the Bottom Up: On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era
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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
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3.58 avg rating — 242 ratings
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A People's History of the United States
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
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4.31 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
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4.18 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Cesar Chavez
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,963 ratings
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Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.77 avg rating — 24,987 ratings
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
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4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
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3.83 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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4.33 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW & Syndicalism in the United States
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3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
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3.82 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
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3.65 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
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3.89 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 (American History and Culture, 2)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Child Labor in America: A History
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
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3.53 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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4.11 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
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The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
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3.67 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
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4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest
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The Haymarket Affair: The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
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4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone
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3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
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3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
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3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age
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3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States
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Chicago Business and Industry: From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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3.85 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America
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3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise
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3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
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3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
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4.20 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
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3.78 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
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3.43 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,604 ratings
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All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies, 1)
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
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4.18 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
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Breaking the Devil's Pact: The Battle to Destroy the Mob's Control over the Teamsters
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
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4.17 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
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4.09 avg rating — 303 ratings
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