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Fight like hell the untold history of American labor

"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 advoca...

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Main Author: Kelly, Kim (Journalist) (Author)
Other Authors: Nelson, Sara, 1973- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2022.
Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Labor movement > United States > History.
Labor unions > United States > History.
Working class > United States > History.
Minority labor union members.
Minorities > Political activity.
Labor unions, Black.
Women in the labor movement > United States.
Informational works.
Summary: "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.
Item Description: "Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--cover.
Physical Description: xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-401) and index.
ISBN: 9781982171056
1982171057
Author Notes: Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic , The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Baffler , The Nation , the Columbia Journalism Review , and Esquire, among many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union , The Real News Network , and Means TV . Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at "Noisey," VICE 's music vertical, and was an original member of the VICE Union. A third-generation union member, she is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World's Freelance Journalists Union as well as a member and elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). She was born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens, and currently lives in Philadelphia with a hard-workin' man, a couple of taxidermied bears, and way too many books.

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