Labor History

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The best in labor history whether based on historiographical significance, significance of the subject, or quality of writing.
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Strike!
by Jeremy Brecher
352 members
1 review
3.9
3 Members
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charlescearl62: Want to read
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The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
2,024 members
11 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by Harry Braverman
549 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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charlescearl62: A readable and wonderful text on monopoly capital
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Teamster Rebellion
by Farrell Dobbs
104 members
½ 4.6
2 Members
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
by Friedrich Engels
1,256 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
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They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925
by Jeffrey A. Johnson
18 members
3
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tallpaul: History of the Pacific Northwest in its radical, rip-roarin, wobbly heyday.
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The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
by Seumas Milne
153 members
1 review
3.9
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tallpaul: Definitive history of the UK Miners Strike of 1984
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
by Lizabeth Cohen
370 members
1 review
4
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike
by Barbara Kingsolver
258 members
4 reviews
3.8
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11
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History
by Alessandro Portelli
50 members
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Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU
by Harvey Schwartz
21 members
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Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
by Kim Moody
70 members
½ 4.5
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An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism
by Kim Moody
62 members
½ 4.5
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We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
by Melvyn Dubofsky
48 members
4
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Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality
by Bruce Nelson
47 members
4
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The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders
by C. Wright Mills
30 members
½ 4.3
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
by Robin D. G. Kelley
358 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Crowd In History
by George Rudé
151 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
by Alexander Saxton
72 members
1 review
4.8
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The CIO, 1935-1955
by Robert H. Zieger
47 members
½ 3.5
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Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
by Leon Fink
43 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
by Staughton Lynd
49 members
½ 4.3
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
by Eric Foner
611 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
by Sean Wilentz
260 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
by E. P. Thompson
343 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
by Nick Salvatore
228 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
by Alice Kessler-Harris
192 members
1 review
4
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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera W. Hunter
245 members
5 reviews
3.9
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
by Elliott J. Gorn
186 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
143 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America
by Herbert G. Gutman
155 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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35
The Haymarket Tragedy
by Paul Avrich
141 members
½ 4.5
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37
London Labour and the London Poor [incorrectly combined editions]
by Henry Mayhew
15 members
4.2
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38
The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
by Irving Bernstein
107 members
½ 3.7
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Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941
by Irving Bernstein
60 members
1 review
4
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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
by Kevin Kenny
124 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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Vita di Antonio Gramsci
by Giuseppe Fiori
125 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Working-Class New York
by Joshua Benjamin Freeman
100 members
4
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Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
by Alan Dawley
85 members
½ 3.7
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47
Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era
by David Brody
83 members
3.8
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Artisans into Workers : Labor in Nineteenth-Century America
by Bruce Laurie
89 members
3.9
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49
Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
by Sherna Berger Gluck
76 members
4
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Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (with a New Epilogue)
by Jefferson Cowie
108 members
1 review
3.9
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53
Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
by George Lipsitz
61 members
4
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The Chartists
by Dorothy Thompson
67 members
½ 3.6
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Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
by Thomas Dublin
45 members
½ 3.5
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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920
by Ronald T. Takaki
72 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
by William E. Forbath
57 members
½ 3.3
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Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919
by David Brody
45 members
4
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63
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
by Michael K. Honey
47 members
4
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The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880
by Billy Gordon Smith
50 members
½ 4.3
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Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor
by Steve Fraser
59 members
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Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
by Bruce Nelson
43 members
½ 4.5
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The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel
by Paul Krause
63 members
4
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Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW
by August Meier
49 members
3
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Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
by Peter Rachleff
30 members
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Brotherhoods of Color : Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality
by Eric Arnesen
47 members
½ 4.3
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