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Bread and Roses (2005)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2005A pay cut brought textile workers out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912. Watson follows a strike that had to hold together across languages and neighborhoods, and shows how sending strikers’ children to stay with supporters brought the dispute national attention. It’s a close account…0 - 2
From the jaws of victory (2012)Published Jan 1, 2012Growers signed labor contracts in 1970 after a grape boycott drew in people who had never set foot in a California field. Garcia follows the workers and organizers who moved the dispute into grocery stores and onto shoppers’ tables. He also traces the union’s later difficulties, which make the…0 - 3
Rising from the Rails (2004)Published Jan 1, 2004The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters spent years trying to win a contract from Pullman. Tye puts that campaign alongside the lives of porters whose tips and long hours kept the service running. The chapter on union organizing shows how workers spread across the country could develop a common…0 - 4
Triangle (2003)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2003The 1911 Triangle fire took 146 lives. Von Drehle traces the organizing already underway among New York garment workers before the fire and follows the alliance that brought labor reformers and Tammany politicians together afterward. The book connects a public disaster to the political work of…0 - 5
Beyond $15 (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Airport workers in SeaTac, Washington, joined with clergy, unions, and immigrant community groups in a campaign for a $15 minimum wage. Rosenblum helped organize it and explains how the group moved from workplace grievances to a local ballot measure. His account makes room for the disagreements…0 - 6
L.A. Story (2006)Published Jan 1, 2006Building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production faced different routes to deteriorating conditions in Los Angeles. Milkman uses those differences to explain why campaigns such as Justice for Janitors could take hold. It’s a book about what immigrant workers brought to a…0 - 7
Striking a light (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009Women and girls walked out of Bryant and May’s East London match factory in 1888. Raw uses records and conversations with descendants to ask who took the first steps and how the matchworkers’ action influenced the dock strike the next year. Her reconstruction keeps the factory workers at the center…0 - 8
Women in the Sky (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021From rubber-shoe workers in colonial Pyongyang to women at the center of South Korea’s democratic union movement in the 1970s, Nam follows factory workers who made their working conditions a public issue. The long view shows how women kept pressing for a voice in labor movements across very…0 - 9
The Polish revolution (1983)Published Jan 1, 1983Garton Ash follows the shipyard workers who defied Poland’s rulers in 1980 and the rise of Solidarity into a national movement. He was there to observe the early struggle and follows it through martial law and beyond. The account is particularly good on what changed when a workplace dispute…0 - 10
Lula and His Politics of CunningFrench follows Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from metalworking into union leadership in industrial São Paulo. The chapters on the strikes show how speaking with workers and earning their confidence mattered to negotiations. The later political career gives the workplace chapters a longer view of where…0
