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May Day

May Day is also International Worker's Day, a day in which we honor laborers, labor movements, and the fight for workers’ rights. One way we are celebrating is sharing a selection of books that present stories of the American worker at different points in time and tell the history of the labor movements and their champions.

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  • Gig

    Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium

    Book, 2000New York : Crown Publishers, c2000.
  • How to Resist Amazon and Why

    the Fight for Local Economies, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-powered Future

    Caine, Danny
    Book, 2021Portland : Microcosm Publishing, 2021.
  • Working 9 to 5

    a Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

    Cassedy, Ellen,
    Book, 2022Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
  • Stayin' Alive

    the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

    Cowie, Jefferson
    Book, 2010New York : New Press, 2010.
  • Nickel and Dimed

    on (not) Getting by in America

    Ehrenreich, Barbara
    Book, 2001New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.
  • Fannie Never Flinched

    One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights

    Farrell, Mary Cronk,
    Book, 2016New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.
  • Beaten Down, Worked Up

    the Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

    Greenhouse, Steven
    Book, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
  • Labor Rising

    the Past and Future of Working People in America

    Book, 2012New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Dist., 2012.
  • Fight Like Hell

    the Untold History of American Labor

    Kelly, Kim (Journalist),
    Book, 2022New York, NY : One Signal Publishers/Atria Books, 2022.
  • On the Line

    a Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

    Pitkin, Daisy, 1977-
    Book, 2022Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
  • Pay Up

    the Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)

    Saujani, Reshma,
    Book, 2022New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2022.