I want coal mines, and "sold my soul to the company store." I want Jimmy Hoffa. I want to hate corporate America more than I do already. I want to read about cops blowing up mining towns in west Virginia because they were on strike. I want to know why Americans think unions are bad.
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*A history of America in ten strikes* by Erik Loomis
John Dos Passos’ “USA Trilogy”
Robin D.G. Kelly’s “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Labor’s Untold Story by Boyer and Morais
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
The gulag archipelago. It’s how communism destroyed Russia. But it’s a beginner understanding of why unions are looked down on.
Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly
A Peoples’ History of the United States by Howard Zinn is usually the starting point.
People’s history of the US by Zinn. There’s a section about the labor wars of the 1920/30s that goes into good detail. Obviously there is more than just that subject so you will find more past actions to hate.