Labor Rights

Understanding the history of labor rights.
Updated September 19, 2022
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Paper Book
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United...
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Paper Book
"Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, Sinclair put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them." -Edmund Wilson When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the...
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull
Paper Book
In this Pura Belpre award-winning picture book, illustrated by Caldecott Honree Yuyi Morales, acclaimed author Kathleen Krull celebrates Latinx civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. An inspirational book about resistance and hope. When Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through...
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
Michelle Markel
Paper Book
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that did not stop Clara. She went to night school,...
Labor in America: A History
Melvyn Dubofsky
Paper Book
Even since the last edition of this milestone text was released six years ago, unions have continued to shed members; union membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to levels not seen since the nineteenth century; the forces of economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital...

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