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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,640 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 848 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as labor)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,414 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,414 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 65 times as labor)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,934 ratings — published 2001
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,107 ratings — published 2018
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,119 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as labor)
avg rating 4.32 — 946 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 47 times as labor)
avg rating 4.45 — 487 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,635 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 — 5,878 ratings — published 1974
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 4.06 — 1,228 ratings — published 2006
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004 ratings — published 2010
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.29 — 882 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 — 115 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,728 ratings — published 1963
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,093 ratings — published 1975
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,371 ratings — published 1990
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 812 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 147 ratings — published 1987
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
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,360 ratings — published 1980
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 264 ratings — published 2006
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,175 ratings — published 1939
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 4.08 — 251 ratings — published
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.04 — 96 ratings — published 1995
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,559 ratings — published 1848
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,496 ratings — published 1936
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 170 ratings — published 2002
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 454 ratings — published 2022
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,364 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 — 276 ratings — published 1955
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.63 — 110 ratings — published
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 — 630 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 — 481 ratings — published 1986
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 189 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 — 454 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 61 ratings — published
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.88 — 181 ratings — published 1998
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 455 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 4.16 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 73 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 — 458 ratings — published 2005
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.83 — 279 ratings — published 2000
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 — 856 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 413 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,796 ratings — published 2003
Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.52 — 80 ratings — published 2024
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,454 ratings — published 2018
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”
― The Complete Poetry
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”
― The Complete Poetry
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Candide
― Candide
