Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor / Kim Kelly.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : One Signal Publishers / Atria Books, 2022.Description: xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982171056 (hardcover)
  • 1982171057 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 8066 K29f 2022
Contents:
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
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 Provided by publisher.
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"Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--Cover

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 Provided by publisher.

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