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Labor in America

Americans have been fighting for better working conditions for hundreds of years. Learn about historic and current labor movements with these nonfiction books.

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22 items

  • The Great Escape

    a True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

    Soni, Saket, 1977-
    Book, 2023Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2023]. — 331.1173 SONI 2023
  • Fight Like Hell

    the Untold History of American Labor

    Kelly, Kim, (Journalist),
    Book, 2022New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2022. — 331.8809 KELLY 2022
  • American Midnight

    the Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

    Hochschild, Adam,
    Book, 2022New York : Mariner Books, [2022]. — 973.91 HOCHSCHI 2022
  • Adrift

    America in 100 Charts

    Galloway, Scott, 1964-
    Book, 2022[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]. — 338.973 GALLOWAY 2022
  • On the Line

    a Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

    Pitkin, Daisy, 1977-
    Book, 2022Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022. — 331.8816 PITKIN 2022
  • Essential

    How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice

    McCallum, Jamie K., 1977-
    Book, 2022New York : Basic Books, 2022. — 331.0973 MCCALLUM 2022
  • Of Blood and Sweat

    Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

    Ford, Clyde W.,
    Book, 2022New York : Amistad, [2022]. — FORD
  • Work Won't Love You Back

    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

    Jaffe, Sarah, 1980-
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Bold Type Books, 2021. — 331.2 JAFFE 2021
  • The Profit Paradox

    How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work

    Eeckhout, Jan,
    Book, 2021Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021. — 331.1 EECKHOUT 2021
  • American Made

    What Happens to People When Work Disappears

    Stockman, Farah,
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, [2021]. — 331.1378 STOCKMAN 2021
  • Dirty Work

    Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

    Press, Eyal,
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 331.7009 PRESS 2021
  • One Fair Wage

    Ending Subminimum Pay in America

    Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-
    Book, 2021New York : The New Press, [2021]. — 331.2309 JAYARAMAN 2021
  • A Collective Bargain

    Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

    McAlevey, Jane,
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]. — 331.8909 MCALEVEY 2020
  • The Long Deep Grudge

    a Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland

    Gilpin, Toni,
    Book, 2020Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2020. — 331.0973 GILPIN 2020
  • Soul Full of Coal Dust

    a Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia

    Hamby, Chris,
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — 363.1196 HAMBY 2020
  • Beaten Down, Worked Up

    the Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

    Greenhouse, Steven,
    Book, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — 331.88 GREENHOUS 2019
  • Book, 2018New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 306.361 GRAEBER 2018
  • Nomadland

    Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century

    Bruder, Jessica
    Book, 2017New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]. — 331.398 BRUDER 2017
  • Of Forests and Fields

    Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest

    Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez, 1979-
    Book, 2016New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] — 331.544 SIFUENTE 2016
  • Household Workers Unite

    the Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

    Nadasen, Premilla
    Book, 2015Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015] — 331.478 NADASEN 2015