the untold history of American labor Kelly, Kim 1988- creator text nyu New York One Signal Publishers / Atria Books 2022 monographic eng

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xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm 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 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 Kim Kelly. "Foreword by Sara Nelson, International President, Association of Flight Attendant-CWA, AFL-CIO"--Cover Movimientos obreros Historia Estados Unidos Sindicatos Estados Unidos Minorías Actividad política HD 8066 K29f 2022 9781982171056 (hardcover) 1982171057 (hardcover) 2022931666 DLC 220128 20230411090813.0 22400589 eng