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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.77 avg rating — 24,988 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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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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Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary
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3.71 avg rating — 14 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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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
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3.88 avg rating — 8 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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The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,606 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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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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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,292 ratings
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Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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3.87 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
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4.09 avg rating — 11 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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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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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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Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class
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4.61 avg rating — 33 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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The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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4.07 avg rating — 14 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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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
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3.99 avg rating — 2,357 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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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
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4.08 avg rating — 365 ratings
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
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3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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4.13 avg rating — 2,063 ratings
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
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4.23 avg rating — 212 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (The African American Experience Series)
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
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3.72 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
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4.18 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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4.19 avg rating — 120 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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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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3.95 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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4.36 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
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4.19 avg rating — 264 ratings
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
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4.08 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
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3.93 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination (Culture, Labor, History, 11)
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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
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3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants
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3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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3.85 avg rating — 4,200 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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The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
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3.79 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America
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4.67 avg rating — 3 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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Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
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3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
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3.24 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Publications)
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace
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4.33 avg rating — 3 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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Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
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4.52 avg rating — 31 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 Socialist Party of America: A Complete History
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3.74 avg rating — 19 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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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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Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism (Culture, Labor, History, 13)
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (Culture, Labor, History, 1)
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920
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4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness
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3.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
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4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
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3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions
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4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
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4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement
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3.65 avg rating — 94 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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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
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3.89 avg rating — 157 ratings
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American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century
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3.68 avg rating — 38 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 Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 320 ratings
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A Working People: A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation (The African American Experience Series)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present
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Child Labor in America: A History
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The Employee: A Political History
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
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4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
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4.49 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution
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Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present (Culture, Labor, History, 4)
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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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Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street
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3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? (Ultimate Series)
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3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings
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