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Labor & Strikes
Books & Encyclopedias
Feature Films & Historical Documentaries
10,000 black men named George
Call Number: 791.4372 Te250s DVD
Blue Collar
Call Number: BL625u DVD
Bread and Roses
Call Number: 791.4372 Br740p DVD
Burnout: the truth about work
Call Number: Streaming
Cesar Chavez
Call Number: 791.4372 Ce337L DVD
The Chocolate War
Call Number: Streaming
Echoes from the Miike Mine
Call Number: Streaming
Fly with Me
Call Number: Streaming
Grapes of Wrath
Call Number: 791.4372 Gr767t DVD
Harlan County, USA
Call Number: 331.87 Ha226c DVD
Harvest of Shame
Call Number: Ha262c DVD
I Need You
Call Number: Streaming
Jimmy's Hall
Call Number: Streaming
Killer of sheep : the Charles Burnett collection
Call Number: 791.4375 Ki555c DVD
Made in Dagenham
Call Number: 791.4372 Ma264s DVD
Also streaming through AVON database.
Matewan
Call Number: 791.4372 Ma419s DVD
Norma Rae
Call Number: 791.4372 No780r DVD
North Country
Call Number: 791.4372 No811w DVD
Parasite
Call Number: 791.4372 Pa212p DVD
Roma
Call Number: 791.4372 Ro660c DVD
Salt of the Earth
Call Number: 791.4372 Sa37p DVD
Struggles in steel : the story of African-American steelworkers
Call Number: Streaming
To the Light: the dark days of China's Miners
Call Number: Streaming
Where do you stand? : stories from an American mill
Call Number: Streaming
The Willmar 8
Call Number: Streaming
The Wobblies
Call Number: 331.88 Wo812b DVD
Encyclopedias
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
by
Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2015
Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor
by
Sjaak van der Velden
Call Number: 331.8803 Ve542h
Publication Date: 2021
Working Americans, 1880-2011 - Volume 1 the Working Class
by
Scott Derks (Editor)
Call Number: 305.562 De445w
Publication Date: 2012
Example Books & eBooks
Against Labor: how U.S. employers organized to defeat union activism
by
Elizabeth Esch
Call Number: 331.880973 Ag14f
Publication Date: 2017
Beaten down, Worked Up : the past, present, and future of American labor
by
Steven Greenhouse
Publication Date: 2020
Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech
by
Brian Merchant
Call Number: 303.483 Me535b
Publication Date: 2023
The Blue Note Seattle's Black Musician's Union, a pictorial history
by
David Keller
Call Number: 781.65097 Ke281b
Publication Date: 2013
The Bosses' Union: how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal
by
Vilja Hulden
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023
Breaking Things at Work : the Luddites are right about why you hate your job
by
Gavin Mueller
Call Number: 320 Mu887b
Publication Date: 2021
Bullshit Jobs
by
David Graeber
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2018
The Cancer Factory: industrial chemicals, corporate deception, and the hidden deaths of American workers
by
Jim Morris
Call Number: 658.382 Mo832c
Publication Date: 2024
Child Labor in America: the epic legal struggle to protect children
by
John A. Fliter
Call Number: 344.73013 Fi649c
Publication Date: 2018
Class War: a literary history
by
Mark Steven
Call Number: 305.5 St46c
Publication Date: 2023
Coal Wars: unions, strikes, and violence in depression-era central Washington
by
David Bullock
Call Number: 331.892 Bu876c
Publication Date: 2014
A Collective Bargain: unions, organizing, and the fight for democracy
by
Jane McAlevey
Call Number: 331.890973 Ma117c
Publication Date: 2020
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th Edition
by
Meredith Minkler (Editor, Contribution by)
Call Number: 362.1 Co737m
Publication Date: 2021
The Disney Revolt : the great labor war of animation's golden age
by
Jake S. Friedman
Call Number: 331.8811 Fr914d
Publication Date: 2022
Empty Labor
by
Roland Paulsen
Call Number: 306.3613 Pa285e
Publication Date: 2014
Fair Shake: women and the fight to build a just economy
by
Naomi Cahn; June Carbone; Nancy Levit
Publication Date: 2024
Fight Like Hell: the untold story of American Labor
by
Kim Kelly
Call Number: 973 Ke297f
Publication Date: 2022
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution : an anthology of Japanese proletarian literature
by
Norma Field (Editor); Heather Bowen-Struyk (Editor)
Call Number: Fo740b
Publication Date: 2016
The Gardens of the British Working Class
by
Margaret Willes
Call Number: 635.0862 Wi668g
Publication Date: 2015
The Hammer: power, inequality, and the struggle for the soul of labor
by
Hamilton Nolan
Call Number: 331.8 No711h
Publication Date: 2024
A History of America in Ten Strikes
by
Erik Loomis
Call Number: 331.892 Lo873h
Publication Date: 2020
A matter of moral justice : Black women laundry workers and the fight for justice
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2021
Midnight in Vehicle City General Motors, Flint and the strike that created the middle class
by
Edward McClelland
Call Number: 331.892 Ma132m
Publication Date: 2021
One fair wage : ending subminimum pay in America
by
Jayaraman, Sarumathi,
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2021
Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison
by
Michael Gibson-Light
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2022
Power and Progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity
by
Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson
Call Number: 303.48 Ac34p
Publication Date: 2023
Pride: [the unlikely story of the unsung heroes of the miners' strike]
by
Tim Tate
Call Number: 331.892 Ta187p
Publication Date: 2018
Remembering Peasants
by
Patrick Joyce
Call Number: 305.5633 Jo854r
Publication Date: 2024
A renegade union : interracial organizing and labor radicalism
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2013
Rules to Win By : power and participation in union negotiations
by
Jane F. McAlevey; Abby Lawlor
Call Number: 331.89 Ma117r
Publication Date: 2023
Sebastião Salgado. Workers. an Archaeology of the Industrial Age
by
Lélia Wanick Salgado (Editor); Sebastião Salgado (Photographer)
Call Number: 305.562 Se21s
Publication Date: 2024
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
by
Alexandra Bradbury; Mark Brenner; Jane Slaughter
Call Number: 331.89 Br726s
Publication Date: 2016
Strong winds and widow makers : workers, nature, and environmental conflict in Pacific Northwest timber country
by
Beda, Steven C.
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2022
There Is Power in a Union
by
Philip Dray
Call Number: 331.880973 Dr797t
Publication Date: 2010
Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity
by
Geert Dhondt (Editor); Jarrod Shanahan (Editor); Noel Ignatiev; David R. Roediger (Foreword by); Zhandarka Kurti (Editor)
Call Number: 305.8009 Ig5t
Publication Date: 2022
Unsustainable : Amazon, warehousing, and the politics of exploitation
by
Ellen Reese; Juliann Emmons Allison
Call Number: 658.7 AL56u
Publication Date: 2023
We Are the Union : how worker-to-worker organizing is revitalizing labor and winning big
by
Eric Blanc
Publication Date: 2025
What Work Is
by
Robert Bruno
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2024
Writing Labor's Emancipation
by
Greg Hall
Call Number: 335.83 Ha142w
Publication Date: 2022