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Death in the Haymarket
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The Day Will Come: Honoring Our Working Class Heroes
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Haymarket Revisited, 3rd Edition - William J. Adelman
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Haymarket Heritage: The Memoirs of Irving S. Abrams
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May Day, A Short History - Philip S. Foner
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Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity, Selected Writings 1878-1937 Gale Ahrens (editor)
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Lucy Parsons An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
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Dynamite and Roses - Robert Benedetti
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Toys of Desperation: A Haymarket Mural in Verse - Harold Zlotnik
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Always Bring a Crowd: The Story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker - Beatrice Lumpkin
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Eagle Forgotten - Harry Barnard
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American Labor's First Strike - Henry P. Rosemont
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Anywhere but Utah: Songs of Joe Hill
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Socialist and Labor Songs from the 1930's
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Big Red Songbook: 250-plus IWW Songs! - Green, Roediger, Rosemont, Salerno
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture - Franklin Rosemont
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Mother Jones America's Most Dangerous Woman DVD
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman In America Elliott J. Gorn
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Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
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Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive
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We Called Each Other Comrade - Allen Ruff
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Starving Amidst Too Much & Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry
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Crime and Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings
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A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel
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Juice is Stranger than Fiction, Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly - Peter Cole
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Fiery Struggle: Illinois Fire Fighters Build a Union, 1901-1985 - Michael G. Matejka
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The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
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Down on the Killing Floor, Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954 - Rick Halp
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From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend
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There is Power in a Union
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Staley: The Fight For A New American Labor Movement - Steven K. Ashby & C.J. Hawking
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Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years - Milton Derber
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The Turbulent Years A History of the American Worker, 1933-1940
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The Lean Years A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class Larry Tye
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The Spirit of Labor - Hutchins Hapgood
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Sixteen Tons A Novel by Kevin Corley
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Good Reliable, White Men: Railway Brotherhoods 1877-1917
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Railroad Man: The Legend of Lil' Jay
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Touring Pullman - William J. Adelman
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Chicago Italians at Work - Peter N. Pero
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Chicago's Pilsen Neighborhood
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Chicago's Historic Pullman District - Frank Beberdick
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Labor Leaders in America - Dubofsky and Van Tine
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Labor Trail Map
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Radium Girls - Claudia Clark
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Joy in the Struggle by Beatrice Lumpkin
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I Am a Teamster - Terry Spencer Hesser
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Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry By Fran Moccio
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City by J. LaTour
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The Rebel Girl by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 / Edition 1 by Brigid O'Farrell, Joyce L. Kornbluh, Joyce L. Kornbluh
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She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker by Brigid O'Farrell
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Autobiography of Florence Kelley - Florence Kelley
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Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man's World by Kate Braid
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Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters / Edition 1 by Melinda Chateauvert
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay
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The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie by John F. Hogan
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Clarence Darrow Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
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Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
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Pride and Solidarity: A History of the Plumbers and Pipefitters of Columbus, Ohio, 1889-1989
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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Progress Without People by David F. Noble
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Put to Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression by Nancy E. Rose
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What Did You Learn at Work Today?
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The Life of Thomas Skidmore by Amos Gilbert
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A Tale of Three Cities: Paterson, Passiac, and Lawrence by David J. Goldberg
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Talkin' Union: The American Labor Movement
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Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz - Paul Buhle & Mike Alewitz
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Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers' Strike by Marlene Targ Brill
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Passage to Chicago A Journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860
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Mother Jones Labor Leader (Children's Graphic Novel)
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The Child Labor Reform Movement
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Changing Roles, Changing Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution
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After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle in Pullman by Susan E. Hirsch
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Breaker Boys How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
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A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval
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Legacy Costs: The Story of a Factory Town by Richard Hudelson
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101 Changemakers by Michele Bollinger
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Chicago Socialism: The People’s History By Joseph Anthony Rulli
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day Author: Peter Linebaugh
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Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle By John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder
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Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves―and the Labor Movement―in Harm's Way by Kris Paap
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The Ordeal of the Jungle: Race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903–1922 by David Bates
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Union Women: Forging Feminism In The United Steelworkers Of America (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) by Mary Margaret Fonow
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Gender at Work The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
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Dishing It Out Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century by Dorothy Sue Cobble
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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West by Jessica Smith Rolston
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Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site by Susan Eisenberg
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We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction by Susan Eisenberg
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Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl
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UNDERGROUND WOMAN: MY FOUR YEARS AS A NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY CONDUCTOR (LABOR AND SOCIAL CHANGE) by Marian Swerdlow
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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
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Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
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A Great Vision: A Militant Family’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century
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Chicago: America’s Workshop
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Chicago Latinos at Work
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A Matter of Moral Justice - Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
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A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike
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Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor
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Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Core Events of an Industrial Disaster
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Strike! 50th Anniversary Edition
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!Si Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in LA
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Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality
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The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
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Joelito’s Big Decision
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Jimmy’s Carwash Adventure
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Hobohemia Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders In 1920s/30s Chicago
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Good Guy Jake: Buen Chico Jake
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From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
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Eugene V. Debs: Citizen & Socialist
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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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Death At Pullman: An Emily Cabor Mystery
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Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers (Graphic Biographies)
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Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration (Chicago Lives)
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Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism
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If I Can't Dance - CD
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Welcome to Labor Land - CD
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
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The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs
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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937 (Witness to History)
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Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality
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The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone
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City of Grit and Gold
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Fellow Workers: The Life of Fred Thompson
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The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
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Haymarket Scrapbook 25th Anniversary Edition
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How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the World)
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I.W.W. Songs: To Fan the Flames of Discontent
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Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died (PAPERBACK)
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Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died (HARDCOVER)
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Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919
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The Letters of Joe Hill
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Listening to Revolt: The Selected Writings of George Rawick
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Meatpackers: An Oral History of Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
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Memoirs Of A Wobbly
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Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
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Walking Tour Package
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Joe Hill T-Shirt
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly - 2021 Edition
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Voices of a People's History of the United States: 10th Anniversary Edition
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Girls Who Build
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The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
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American Labor Struggles: 1877-1934
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Eugene V. Debs Speaks
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology
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Pullman: The Man, The Company, The Historical Park
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The Illustrated History of the Cherry Mine Disaster of 1909
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The Haymarket Tragedy
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Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City
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Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements
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We the People: The Drama of America
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Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers’ Union
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The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 (Working Class in American History)
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The Great Strikes of 1877 (Working Class in American History)
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The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
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1877: Year of Violence
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Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society
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Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
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Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 (Working Class in American History)
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"Rights, Not Roses" Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80
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Exploring The Dangerous Trades The Autobiography
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Always Bring a Crowd, 2nd Edition
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