Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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Robin Bernstein
4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings 
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings 8. 
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 9. 
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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Philip Dray
4.19 avg rating — 835 ratings 9. 
Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Child Labor: An American History (Issues in Work and Human Resources
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Hugh D. Hindman
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Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left
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Helen C. Camp
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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David von Drehle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,586 ratings 16. 
A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941
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Irving Bernstein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Premilla Nadasen
4.03 avg rating — 79 ratings 20. 
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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Howard Zinn
3.81 avg rating — 142 ratings 22. 
On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
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James Fisher
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 23. 
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era 4.11 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings 25. 
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical 3.77 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture 4.16 avg rating — 57 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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Staughton Lynd
4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings 30. 
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
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Farah Stockman
4.31 avg rating — 1,425 ratings 31. 
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
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J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 31. 
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 37. 
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
by:
Les Leopold
4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings 37. 
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
by:
Priscilla Murolo
3.83 avg rating — 273 ratings 37. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by:
James R. Green
4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings 37. 
The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW & Syndicalism in the United States
by:
Patrick Renshaw
3.79 avg rating — 108 ratings 42. 
Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
by:
Robert Lewis
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
by:
Scott Martelle
3.82 avg rating — 93 ratings 42. 
Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
by:
Clayton Sinyai
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
by:
William P. Jones
3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings 46. 
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Paul M. Buhle
4.06 avg rating — 456 ratings 
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America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 (American History and Culture, 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
by:
James R. Green
4.06 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 52. 
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
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Michael Dennis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
by:
John A. Salmond
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 59. 
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
by:
Jack Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 417 ratings 59. 
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
by:
James J. Lorence
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 62. 
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Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
by:
James B. Jacobs
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings 62. 
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
by:
Miriam Pawel
4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings 62. 
Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest
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Ed McCollester
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 66. 
The Haymarket Affair: The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
by:
Philip S. Foner
4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings 66. 
Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist
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John C. Cort
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
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Brigid O'Farrell
3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings 70. 
Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
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Tom Sito
4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings 76. 
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States
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Ronald D. Cohen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 79. 
Chicago Business and Industry: From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
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Janice L. Reiff
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 79. 
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
by:
Matthew S. May
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 82. 
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
by:
Lizabeth Cohen
3.85 avg rating — 1,095 ratings 82. 
Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America
by:
Daniel Katz
3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings 82. 
Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise
by:
Robert Fitch
3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings 85. 
More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
by:
Jason Stein
3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings 88. 
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
by:
Ted Nace
4.20 avg rating — 176 ratings 
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by:
Tom Lutz
3.41 avg rating — 253 ratings 90. 
Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
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Melissa Walker
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 93. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by:
Adam Winkler
4.17 avg rating — 1,388 ratings 96. 
Breaking the Devil's Pact: The Battle to Destroy the Mob's Control over the Teamsters
by:
James B. Jacobs
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 96. 
Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
by:
Tom Juravich
4.16 avg rating — 100 ratings 99. 
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
by:
Tim Wise
4.09 avg rating — 298 ratings 99. 
Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
by:
Alice Lynd
4.50 avg rating — 48 ratings