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Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Workers and Their Struggles - Halpern and Horowitz

An important window into racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest – mostly African American – talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. (152pp)

Death in the Haymarket

The definitive book on the Haymarket Tragedy of 1886. Green locates the event within the broader social setting of the time. The tapestry of working-class Chicago is exposed in rich detail as the fateful night of May 4, 1886 unfolds with its far reaching and unhappy consequences. (383 pages)

Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class Larry Tye

Drawing on extensive inteviews with porters and their descendants, this engaging book recoutns the life and work of the Pullman porter and the successful struggle to organize the union and improve conditions of work. (314pp)

The Day Will Come: Honoring Our Working Class Heroes

Edited by Mark Rogovin, this 40-page booklet, The Day Will Come has brief biographies of the men and women who are buried, or who have their ashes scattered alongside the Haymarket Martyrs monument Forest Park, Illinois. Included are the Martyrs, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons and William Z. Foster.

There is Power in a Union

Author: Philip Dray From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the trimph of the unions in the twentieth century and the waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for their share of bounty has shaped our national experience. (775pp) Paperback