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Fight Like Hell
- The Untold History of American Labor
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Publisher's summary
This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
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 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 “thought-provoking must-read” (Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO president), Teen Vogue columnist 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.
Fight Like Hell comes at a time of economic reckoning in America. From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes, Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of Portland’s Stripper Strike, interest in organized labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s. Inspirational, intersectional, and full of crucial lessons from the past, Fight Like Hell is “essential reading for anyone who believes that workers should control their fate” (Shane Burley, author of Why We Fight).
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The first elected woman president of an African country, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was also listed as one of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. This evocative memoir recounts Sirleaf ’s childhood upbringing and rise to political power in Liberia. More than a simple biography, Sirleaf ’s account details how she stood firm in the face of physical abuse early in life and carried that strength over into her career as a young economist in Samuel Doe’s regime.
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What a powerfully strong woman!
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A Nation of Nations
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An Inclusive History for Young People
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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The Accommodation
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The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the civil rights movement and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Floored
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In Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of the nation's heartland. We meet ostentatious mafiosos, upwardly mobile professionals, impassioned activists, scheming taxi drivers with dark secrets, and beleaguered steel workers. We discover surprising subcultures, like the LGBT residents of Chelyablinsk who bravely endure an upsurge in homophobia fueled by Putin's rhetoric of Russian "moral superiority" yet still nurture a vibrant if clandestine community of their own.
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Interesting dive into Russia today
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- brian cogan
- 02-13-23
History that had me on the Edge of my Seat!
Outstanding storytelling from both the author and narrators “Fight Like Hell” had me on the edge of my seat with some of what should be the most important history among the working public in the United States.
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- CMcCarty
- 09-09-22
Really well organized primer on US labor history
Enjoyed this very much! Kelly connects contemporary labor movements to the pioneers of labor organizing across segments of time, space, and intersectional identities.
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- Karl R. Walko
- 06-09-22
A People’s American Labor History
“We stand on the shoulders of giants”. Anyone involved in labor organizing recognizes the importance of all previous fights for labor rights. While the bosses never stop trying to reduce or eliminate workers' power, and while the fight never ends, even a labor action that ends in defeat advances the cause. This is a story of 200 years of American labor action and the men and women who fought in those conflicts. A few names are well known. Most names are unknown to the general public. A few names would be lost to history without this book.
Kim Kelly tells the inspiring tale of the fight for workers’ rights and their leaders who often staked everything standing up to the rich and powerful.
The review is well-timed in this moment of labor unrest. With the “Great Resignation” and “Striketober” of 2021 in the recent past and organizing now where it has never gone before, the story of past fights should be illuminating to organizing workers, as well as, to those wondering what is going on.
Kudos to Kelly for a needed, well-written book.
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- Colin
- 07-02-22
Amazing History For The Future
Kim Kelly tells real labor history in this amazing work. Required reading for anyone who cares about the working class.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-01-22
Great stories of lesser known labor activists
Great stories of the Labor movement brought together by Kelly. Many of whom I'd never heard before.
some glaring mispronounciations by narrator
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- David
- 01-09-23
The Untold Stories of US Labor
A very cohesive narrative, despite the author's warning that it'll jump around some, that really left me much better educated on the breadth of the labor movement in the US. Highly recommend for anyone interested in leftist politics or workers movements.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-18-24
It is an important historical cause. Well written, well performed.
it gives the truth even if it is not a truth I want to hear.
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- savy
- 09-06-22
HELL YES
Amazing true stories about how this country was built on stolen labor, and a few forgotten tales of those who paved the way for labor today.
I am truly inspired and motivated to fight like hell after reading this.
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- Chris Haak
- 06-13-23
Eye Opening
As someone who was not exposed to information on unions growing up and had union affiliations of many of the people mentioned in history class downplayed I found this book eye opening. I would recommend this book to anyone who works as it acts as both a primer for labor’s history and introduces figures from a large swath of industries.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-22
Good but mispronunciations
Outrageous, elementary mispronunciations. You don’t say the p is corps, cmon be better please zzz
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