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The Untold History of American Labor
Simon & Schuster
September 2023
On Sale: August 29, 2023
448 pages
ISBN: 1982171065
EAN: 9781982171063
Kindle: B09842KDCW
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Non-Fiction History | LGBTQ
A revelatory, inclusive history of the American labor
movement, from independent journalist and Teen
Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
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 assiduously researched work of
journalism, Teen Vogue columnist and independent
labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that 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.
Fight Like
Hell comes at a time of economic reckoning in America.
From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes,
Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of
Portland’s Stripper Strike, interest in organized
labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s.
Inspirational, intersectional, and full of crucial
lessons from the past, Fight Like Hell shows what
is possible when the working class demands the dignity it
has always deserved.
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