International Holidays: Happy Labor Day!
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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 3. 
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
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William M. Adler
4.05 avg rating — 328 ratings 4. 
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,684 ratings 4. 
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
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James R. Green
4.06 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 6. 
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
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Mark A. Bradley
4.16 avg rating — 569 ratings 7. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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James R. Green
4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings 8. 
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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
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Jane F. McAlevey
4.32 avg rating — 870 ratings 10. 
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
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Robert Shogan
3.90 avg rating — 311 ratings 
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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth 4.14 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
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Philip S. Foner
4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings 14. 
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
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Richard O. Boyer
3.83 avg rating — 266 ratings 15. 
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
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Matthew T. Huber
3.97 avg rating — 404 ratings 16. 
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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Heather McGhee
4.62 avg rating — 20,495 ratings 19. 
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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Eric Schlosser
3.78 avg rating — 6,368 ratings 20. 
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 3.86 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
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Ellen Cassedy
4.02 avg rating — 94 ratings 22. 
Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement 3.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights 4.02 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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Eyal Press
4.16 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 25. 
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet 4.03 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor 4.18 avg rating — 786 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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State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence
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Philip M. Dine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings 29. 
Life & Labor On Butler's Island: Rice Cultivation in the Altamaha Delta
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Buddy Sullivan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 30. 
Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology
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Darryl Holter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
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Jason Stein
3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings 33. 
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
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Les Leopold
4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings 35. 
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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
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Dan Kaufman
4.12 avg rating — 768 ratings 
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America 4.15 avg rating — 230 ratings
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No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
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Jane F. McAlevey
4.42 avg rating — 1,317 ratings 
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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Michael K. Honey
4.41 avg rating — 243 ratings 44. 
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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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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Jack Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 417 ratings 
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Socialist and Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook
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Elizabeth Morgan
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
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James J. Lorence
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 53. 
A Workers' History of the United States 1948-2020
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Jason W. Smith
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 54. 
Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
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John A. Salmond
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
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Bruce E. Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 57. 
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality 4.47 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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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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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
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Tom Juravich
4.16 avg rating — 100 ratings 63. 
The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker (The Darling Dahlias, #10) 4.15 avg rating — 799 ratings
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
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Priscilla Murolo
3.83 avg rating — 273 ratings 65. 
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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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On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
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Daisy Pitkin
4.25 avg rating — 429 ratings 67. 
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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 70. 
Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
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Ahmed White
4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez
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Monica Brown
4.23 avg rating — 215 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 
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What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920
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Mart A. Stewart
3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio (The History of Communication 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
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Michael K. Honey
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
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Louis Hyman
3.93 avg rating — 277 ratings 86. 
The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America
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Oren Cass
3.88 avg rating — 397 ratings 
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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
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Brian P Luskey
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
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John Bowe
3.93 avg rating — 317 ratings 92. 
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
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Bhu Srinivasan
4.39 avg rating — 1,938 ratings 92. 
Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States
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David Witwer
3.25 avg rating — 75 ratings 94. 
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Nancy MacLean
4.29 avg rating — 4,898 ratings 94. 
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
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Ardis Cameron
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America
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Jonathan Tasini
4.15 avg rating — 565 ratings 97. 
The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
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Hahamovich
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 99. 
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York 3.70 avg rating — 449 ratings