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Labor Books
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,684 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 856 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,485 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,454 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 65 times as labor)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,458 ratings — published 2001
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,199 ratings — published 2018
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,154 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 973 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 48 times as labor)
avg rating 4.46 — 494 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,830 ratings — published 1906
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,906 ratings — published 1974
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as labor)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,015 ratings — published 2010
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as labor)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,247 ratings — published 2006
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.30 — 899 ratings — published 1974
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 116 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,749 ratings — published 1963
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,391 ratings — published 1990
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 822 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 147 ratings — published 1987
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,104 ratings — published 1975
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 254 ratings — published 1991
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 265 ratings — published 2006
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 271,352 ratings — published 1980
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.10 — 259 ratings — published
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,015,265 ratings — published 1939
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,765 ratings — published 1848
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 175 ratings — published 2002
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 464 ratings — published 2022
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 97 ratings — published 1995
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,817 ratings — published 1936
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.62 — 112 ratings — published
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,378 ratings — published 1991
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.85 — 280 ratings — published 1955
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 646 ratings — published 2015
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.42 — 487 ratings — published 1986
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 190 ratings — published 2008
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 458 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 63 ratings — published
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.88 — 183 ratings — published 1998
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 468 ratings — published 2024
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.17 — 239 ratings — published 2011
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 74 ratings — published 2011
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.05 — 460 ratings — published 2005
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 3.83 — 287 ratings — published 2000
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 677 ratings — published 2008
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 872 ratings — published 2017
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 647 ratings — published 2011
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.13 — 423 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,862 ratings — published 2003
“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”
― Life Without Principle
― Life Without Principle
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Candide
― Candide













