International Holidays: Happy Labor Day!

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Hard Labor and Hard Time: Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and Chain Gangs
Hard Labor and Hard Time: Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and Chain Gangs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Blue Line Down
The Blue Line Down 4.15 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power
Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World 4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America 4.32 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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The Cold Millions
The Cold Millions 3.95 avg rating — 19,925 ratings
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States 4.28 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers 3.60 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Who Was Cesar Chavez?
Who Was Cesar Chavez? 3.97 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The South at Work: Observations from 1904
The South at Work: Observations from 1904 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America 3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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C.O.W.L., Vol. 1: Principles of Power
C.O.W.L., Vol. 1: Principles of Power 3.37 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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Tragic (Butch Karp, #25)
Tragic (Butch Karp, #25) 3.85 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work 3.60 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers
Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 4.16 avg rating — 460 ratings
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A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont, #6)
A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 5,381 ratings
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears 4.31 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers
Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings
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United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Workers Unite!: The American Labor Movement
Workers Unite!: The American Labor Movement 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Pullman Strike of 1894
The Pullman Strike of 1894 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement 3.97 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Child Labor
Child Labor 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Core Events of an Industrial Disaster
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Core Events of an Industrial Disaster 3.88 avg rating — 24 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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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story 4.11 avg rating — 163 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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The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 3.72 avg rating — 121 ratings
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages 3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Raise Your Voice: 12 Protests That Shaped America
Raise Your Voice: 12 Protests That Shaped America 3.84 avg rating — 49 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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Fire at the Triangle Factory
Fire at the Triangle Factory 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
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In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers 4.06 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age 3.70 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York 3.82 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World 3.82 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 3.85 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522
Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads―My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads―My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
by: Dan Lyons
3.90 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth 3.76 avg rating — 16,289 ratings
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Child Labor: An American History (Issues in Work and Human Resources
Child Labor: An American History (Issues in Work and Human Resources liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane 4.27 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
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And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (Pitt Series in Social and Labor History)
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (Pitt Series in Social and Labor History) 4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home 3.78 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Labor in America: A History
Labor in America: A History 3.74 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Organized Labor in American History
Organized Labor in American History liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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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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Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles
Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles 3.91 avg rating — 32 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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No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor 4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement 4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 2: From the Founding of the A. F. of L. to the Emergence of American Imperialism
History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 2: From the Founding of the A. F. of L. to the Emergence of American Imperialism 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 3: The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor 1900-1909
History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 3: The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor 1900-1909 4.12 avg rating — 17 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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Life of Albert R. Parsons with Brief History of the Labor Movement in America
Life of Albert R. Parsons with Brief History of the Labor Movement in America 4.36 avg rating — 14 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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Hard Work: The Making Of Labor History
Hard Work: The Making Of Labor History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Labor and the Course of American Democracy: US History in Latin American Perspective (Haymarket Series)
Labor and the Course of American Democracy: US History in Latin American Perspective (Haymarket Series) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America
The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America 3.70 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Pullman Strike & the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor & Politics
The Pullman Strike & the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor & Politics 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century 3.79 avg rating — 587 ratings
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The History of America’s Largest Labor Uprising
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The History of America’s Largest Labor Uprising 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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American Labor: A Documentary Collection
American Labor: A Documentary Collection 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Golden Apple: Redefining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce
The Golden Apple: Redefining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement 3.86 avg rating — 7 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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Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor
Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor
by: Ava Baron
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks 3.73 avg rating — 9,430 ratings
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The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 4.50 avg rating — 8 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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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The History and Legacy of the Protests across America over Wages and Labor Conditions
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The History and Legacy of the Protests across America over Wages and Labor Conditions really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 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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The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture
The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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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In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker
In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World 4.06 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Homestead Strike: Labor, Violence, and American Industry
The Homestead Strike: Labor, Violence, and American Industry 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation 3.94 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion (American Labor History
Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion (American Labor History 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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What Work Is: Poems
What Work Is: Poems 4.28 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
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The Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement in American History
The Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement in American History liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Toil and Trouble: A History of American Labor
Toil and Trouble: A History of American Labor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 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 New Women's Labor History
The New Women's Labor History
by: Leon Fink
0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis
Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis 2.80 avg rating — 5 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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