Best Children's Books About Labor & Workforce (48 books)

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Here are great children's books to share with young readers and teach them about unions, organizing, and the magic of teamwork.

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1	Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin 4.28 avg rating — 96,259 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman by Emma Carlson Berne (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights by Monica Kulling (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 174 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Viva's Voice by Raquel Donoso 4.28 avg rating — 124 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta by Jennifer Torres 3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Please Please the Bees by Gerald Kelley 4.24 avg rating — 623 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America by Kathleen Krull 4.39 avg rating — 613 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington by Michael Long 4.18 avg rating — 119 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 3,758 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington by Carole Boston Weatherford 4.38 avg rating — 209 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin 4.28 avg rating — 96,259 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests by Erik Loomis 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Where Are the Workers?: Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites by Robert Forrant (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 1,740 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey 4.46 avg rating — 497 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II by Joshua B. Freeman 4.12 avg rating — 111 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa May 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York by Richard A. Greenwald 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York by Joshua B. Freeman (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane (Goodreads Author) 3.18 avg rating — 2,700 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 2,756 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Dogs at Work: Good Dogs. Real Jobs. by Margaret Cardillo 3.70 avg rating — 298 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Work: An Occupational ABC by Kellen Hatanaka 3.61 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Steady Hands: Poems About Work by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	What Do You Do If You Work at the Zoo?: From Caldecott Honor–winning creators, a playful picture book about zookeepers caring for penguins, giraffes, and elephants (Ages 4-7) by Steve Jenkins 4.29 avg rating — 229 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt 4.42 avg rating — 61,040 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song by George Ella Lyon 3.92 avg rating — 158 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 776 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 217 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	I Like, I Don't Like by Anna Baccelliere 4.02 avg rating — 204 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Night Job by Karen Hesse 4.08 avg rating — 741 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3,456 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Undocumented: A Worker's Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh 4.30 avg rating — 626 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Night Worker by Kate Banks 3.52 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia C. McKissack really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Kids on Strike!: The True Story of Young Activists and Child Labor in 20th Century America for Children (Ages 10-12) by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 3.81 avg rating — 301 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson 3.78 avg rating — 2,760 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Dolores Huerta: Get to Know the Voice of Migrant Workers (People You Should Know) by Robert Liu-Trujillo (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Rescue on the Outer Banks by Candice Ransom (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice by Michael Long 4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 4.05 avg rating — 118,805 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Missing from Haymarket Square by Harriette Gillem Robinet 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Front Desk (Front Desk #1) by Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 48,082 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 209 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Three Keys (Front Desk #2) by Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 11,562 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Room to Dream (Front Desk #3) by Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 6,292 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Top Story (Front Desk #5) by Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 2,584 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Key Player (Front Desk #4) by Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 3,849 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars