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The Roots, Struggles, and Future of the Labor Force

September 03, 2018

This Labor Day, we remember the history of the U.S. labor movement, the contributions and achievements of American workers, and the struggles that laborers continue to face today regarding worker’s rights. Below are a list of titles that discuss U.S. labor history and the potential future of work and the labor force.

Labor Movement

Race and Class

Hidden Laborers

Farmworkers and Migrant Workers

The Future of Work

TAGS: #LaborDay, 9780520257924, 9780520275140, 9780520276697, 9780520278127, 9780520280830, 9780520282964, 9780520283275, 9780520285385, 9780520285613, 9780520287174, 9780520287211, 9780520288416, 9780520290853, 9780520292062, 9780520292925, 9780520295070, 9780520295438, 9780520296077, 9780520298576, 9780520299450, 9780520299931, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Ahmed White, Alex Rosenblat, America's Social Arsonist, Angela Stuesse, Beyond Hawai'i, Big Rig, Color Line and the Assembly Line, David Bacon, Elizabeth Esch, En los campos del norte, Fred Glass, Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies, From Mission to Microchip, Gabriel Thompson, Gary Alan Fine, Gregory Rosenthal, In the Fields of the North, invisible labor, Jason W. Moore, Joe William Trotter Jr., John M. Kline, Kevin Sanson, Kitchens, Labor and the Locavore, labor day, last great strike, Making of a Teenage Service Class, Margaret Gray, marion crain, Michael Curtin, miriam cherry, on the line, Precarious Creativity, Raj Patel, Ranita Ray, Sarah Adler-Milstein, sarah horton, Scratching out a living, Seth Holmes, Sewing Hope, Steve Viscelli, The Big Rig, They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields, Uberland, vanesa ribas, Voices of Labor, winifred poster, Workers on Arrival

CATEGORIES: American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Global Studies, Luminos, Sociology

In Memoriam: Stan Holwitz

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