Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor /
Kelly, Kim (Journalist),
Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor / Fight like hell Untold history of American labor Kim Kelly. - First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. - xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
"Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The trailblazers -- The garment workers -- The mill workers -- The revolutionaries -- The miners -- The harvesters -- The cleaners -- The freedom fighters -- The movers -- The metalworkers -- The disabled workers -- The sex workers -- The prisoners -- Epilogue.
"Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America's civil rights movement. These are only some of the working-class heroes who propelled American labor's relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law. The names and faces of countless silenced, misrepresented, or forgotten leaders have been erased by time as a privileged few decide which stories get cut from the final copy: those of women, people of color, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, sex workers, prisoners, and the poor. In this definitive and assiduously researched work of journalism, Teen Vogue columnists and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that untold history and shows how the rights the American worker has today--the forty-hour workweek, workplace-safety standards, restrictions on child labor, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job--were earned with literal blood, sweat, and tears"--Amazon.
9781982171056 1982171057
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2022931666
GBC278575 bnb
020573717 Uk
Labor movement--History.--United States
Labor unions--History.--United States
Working class--History.--United States
Minority labor union members.
Minorities--Political activity.
Labor unions, Black.
Women in the labor movement--United States.
Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor / Fight like hell Untold history of American labor Kim Kelly. - First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. - xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
"Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The trailblazers -- The garment workers -- The mill workers -- The revolutionaries -- The miners -- The harvesters -- The cleaners -- The freedom fighters -- The movers -- The metalworkers -- The disabled workers -- The sex workers -- The prisoners -- Epilogue.
"Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America's civil rights movement. These are only some of the working-class heroes who propelled American labor's relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law. The names and faces of countless silenced, misrepresented, or forgotten leaders have been erased by time as a privileged few decide which stories get cut from the final copy: those of women, people of color, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, sex workers, prisoners, and the poor. In this definitive and assiduously researched work of journalism, Teen Vogue columnists and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that untold history and shows how the rights the American worker has today--the forty-hour workweek, workplace-safety standards, restrictions on child labor, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job--were earned with literal blood, sweat, and tears"--Amazon.
9781982171056 1982171057
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2022931666
GBC278575 bnb
020573717 Uk
Labor movement--History.--United States
Labor unions--History.--United States
Working class--History.--United States
Minority labor union members.
Minorities--Political activity.
Labor unions, Black.
Women in the labor movement--United States.