02586nam a22003375i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000150009702000300011202000270014204000230016904100080019204200080020005000230020810000230023124500760025426000600033030000320039033600260042233700280044833800270047650001080050350502350061152012780084665000530212465000320217765000390220922400589BJBSDDR20230411090813.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta220128s2022    nyu           000 0 eng    a2022931666  a9781982171056 (hardcover)  a1982171057 (hardcover)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  aeng  apcc14aHD 8066bK29f 20221 aKelly, Kim,d1988-10aFight like hell : bthe untold history of American labor / cKim Kelly.  aNew York :bOne Signal Publishers / Atria Books,c2022.  axxviii, 418 pages ; c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--Cover  aPrologue
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  aFreed 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 tearscProvided by publisher. 4aMovimientos obreros xHistoria zEstados Unidos  4aSindicatoszEstados Unidos  4aMinorías xActividad política