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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as unions)
avg rating 4.33 — 914 ratings — published 2020
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as unions)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,374 ratings — published 2016
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unions)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,075 ratings — published 2018
The Last Ballad (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as unions)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,410 ratings — published 2017
For the Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as unions)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,563 ratings — published 2010
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as unions)
avg rating 4.30 — 962,641 ratings — published 2021
The Cold Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as unions)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,522 ratings — published 2020
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 5 times as unions)
avg rating 4.18 — 455 ratings — published 2019
The Women of the Copper Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as unions)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,445 ratings — published 2019
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as unions)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,733 ratings — published 2013
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as unions)
avg rating 4.19 — 842 ratings — published 2010
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as unions)
avg rating 4.18 — 803 ratings — published 2019
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 4 times as unions)
avg rating 4.44 — 479 ratings — published 2012
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as unions)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,174 ratings — published 1999
Uprising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as unions)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,877 ratings — published 2007
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as unions)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,767 ratings — published 2005
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as unions)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,719 ratings — published 2003
The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
by (shelved 3 times as unions)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,538 ratings — published 2008
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,540 ratings — published 2023
The Boxcar Librarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,150 ratings — published 2025
We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (Naomi Schneider)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.43 — 47 ratings — published
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,899 ratings — published 1980
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,995 ratings — published 2022
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.16 — 599 ratings — published 2020
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.42 — 467 ratings — published 1986
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,602 ratings — published 2022
The Rank and File Strategy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published 2000
An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism (Haymarket)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published 1988
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.25 — 445 ratings — published 2022
Gilded Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,287 ratings — published 2022
Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.11 — 79 ratings — published
Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 2007
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,339 ratings — published 2022
Our Members Be Unlimited: a comic about workers and their unions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.43 — 282 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Union Buster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.02 — 129 ratings — published 1993
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,770 ratings — published 2019
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,838 ratings — published 2016
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,087 ratings — published 1975
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,880 ratings — published 2018
Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 3.94 — 33 ratings — published 2000
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.01 — 115 ratings — published 2008
Where the Truth Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 3.35 — 484 ratings — published 2020
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,272 ratings — published 1981
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,723 ratings — published 2012
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.15 — 234 ratings — published 2011
"They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 3.94 — 133 ratings — published 2012
Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (Jacobin)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.07 — 238 ratings — published 2014
Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.02 — 177 ratings — published 2016
Janesville: An American Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unions)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,604 ratings — published 2017
“I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear
advantages: they were directly blocking the use of strikebreakers; they
did not have to act through union officials but were in direct control
of the situation themselves; they did not have to walk outside in the
cold and rain, but had shelter; they were not isolated, as in their work,
or on the picket line; they were thousands under one roof, free to
talk to one another, to form a community of struggle. Louis Adamic,
a labor writer, describes one of the early sit-downs:
Sitting by their machines, cauldrons, boilers and work benches, they talked.
Some realized for the first time how important they were in the process of
rubber production. Twelve men had practically stopped the works! . . . Superintendents, foremen, and straw bosses were dashing about. . . . In less than
an hour the dispute was settled, full victory for the men.”
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
advantages: they were directly blocking the use of strikebreakers; they
did not have to act through union officials but were in direct control
of the situation themselves; they did not have to walk outside in the
cold and rain, but had shelter; they were not isolated, as in their work,
or on the picket line; they were thousands under one roof, free to
talk to one another, to form a community of struggle. Louis Adamic,
a labor writer, describes one of the early sit-downs:
Sitting by their machines, cauldrons, boilers and work benches, they talked.
Some realized for the first time how important they were in the process of
rubber production. Twelve men had practically stopped the works! . . . Superintendents, foremen, and straw bosses were dashing about. . . . In less than
an hour the dispute was settled, full victory for the men.”
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
