The struggle of Black Pullman porters to organize under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph is a classic labor story with a David vs. Goliath ending. In this retelling for young adult audiences and adults seeking an introduction to the subject, the McKissacks blend their text with many archival photos.

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
By Patricia and Frederick McKissack

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On May 1, 1886, hundred of thousands of American workers across the country followed the lead of the newly formed American Federation of Labor by engaging in a one-day general strike for the eight-hour day. As a result of the protests and general strike, working hours were reduced for over 200,000 workers in the U.S.   Philip Foner's "May Day" is a valuable reminder of the roots of May Day and of the U.S. labor movement.

May Day : A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986
by Philip Sheldon Foner

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The Social Security Act of 1935 created an economic safety net with such programs as Social Security, unemployment insurance and a whole range of direct relief (welfare) payments for "unemployables." It was originally proposed to include health care, as well as a permanent public works program to provide work for the unemployed.

Put to Work : Relief Programs in the Great Depression
by Nancy E. Rose

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died during the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968 fighting to recreate an alliance of Memphis labor and civil rights which had briefly flourished a generation earlier. Michael Honey's history of union growth and decline in Memphis from the '30s to the early '50s is a biography of this long-forgotten movement for labor and black civil rights in one Southern city.

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights :
Organizing Memphis Workers (Working Class in American History)
by Michael K. Honey
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This book compares the strategies of public sector unions in the San Francisco Bay area in the late '70s and early '80s, focusing on alliances between labor and community groups around public service issues.

Success While Others Fail : Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace
by Paul Johnston
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In this book, historian Nelson Lichtenstein examines the impact of the Second World War on the growing U.S. labor movement as it emerged from the Great Depression.

Labor's War at Home : The Cio in World War II
by Nelson Lichtenstein
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Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.

A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
by Howard Zinn
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This book tells you something your school history books almost certainly did not: how working Americans for the past 125 years have used the strike again and again to win a degree of justice and fair play.  Beginning with the Great Upheaval of 1877, STRIKE!  Tells of the nation's great strikes and the social and political climates from which they grew.

Strike!
by Jeremy Brecher, Manning Marable (Editor)
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Here is a work of non-fiction that has the bite and grip of a social novel. It is the story of one lawyer's journey into the country of labor's rank and file--a journey that explores the mysteries, romance, and pain of class in America.

Which Side Are You On? :
Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back
by Thomas Geoghegan, Thomas Geohegan
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Eugene Victor Debs was one of the most prominent labor activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was, perhaps, the most admired openly radical public figure in America's history, running for president on the Socialist ticket in five separate elections, including a 1920 campaign conducted from prison.

Eugene V. Debs : Citizen and Socialist
by Nick Salvatore
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