30 Best

Labor Books

1

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

2

Coal River

3

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

4

The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

5

The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

6

Riot. Strike. Riot.: The New Era of Uprisings

7

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

8

Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

9

On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights

10

Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary

11

The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

12

Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights

13

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

14

In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

15

There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

16

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

17

Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

18

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

19

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

20

The Jungle

21

Why Unions Matter

22

The Grapes of Wrath

23

Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back

24

The Making of the English Working Class

25

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America

26

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

27

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution

28

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

29

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War