Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)

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Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings
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California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative
California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth
By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power
Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923
I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923 4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America 3.86 avg rating — 937 ratings
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)
On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series) 3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition (Volume 16) (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition (Volume 16) (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA) 4.35 avg rating — 60 ratings
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For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Culture, Labor, History, 12)
Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Culture, Labor, History, 12) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class
Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class 4.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right
The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women 3.83 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
by: Lew Irwin
4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by: Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss
Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) 3.99 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York 4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work 3.83 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development 4.08 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 4.11 avg rating — 958 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes
Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (The African American Experience Series)
To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (The African American Experience Series) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House 3.72 avg rating — 490 ratings
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I.W.W. Songs
I.W.W. Songs 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 4.17 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South 3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves 4.19 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time 3.96 avg rating — 768 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History 4.32 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression 4.37 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
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The West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail
The West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States 4.19 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice 4.08 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16) 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary 3.93 avg rating — 277 ratings
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won 3.69 avg rating — 2,563 ratings
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Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination (Culture, Labor, History, 11)
Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination (Culture, Labor, History, 11) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio (The History of Communication
Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio (The History of Communication 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6)
Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants
American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants 3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War 3.85 avg rating — 4,167 ratings
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All Labor Has Dignity
All Labor Has Dignity 4.45 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series) 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970
American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Labor's Troubadour
Labor's Troubadour 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America 3.79 avg rating — 222 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History) 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising 3.90 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America
Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States 3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience 4.22 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour
Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War 3.93 avg rating — 646 ratings
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The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
by: Leon Fink
3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920
What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West
The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West 3.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Socialist & Labor Songs of the 1930s
Socialist & Labor Songs of the 1930s it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Publications)
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Publications) 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace
Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Knights of Labor in the South
The Knights of Labor in the South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon 4.05 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War 4.12 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History
The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History
by: Jack Ross
3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations
Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism (Culture, Labor, History, 13)
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism (Culture, Labor, History, 13) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The Working Poor: Invisible in America 4.04 avg rating — 5,703 ratings
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Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (Culture, Labor, History, 1)
Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (Culture, Labor, History, 1) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California
Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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