{"product_id":"fight-like-hell-the-untold-history-of-american-labor","title":"Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) from independent journalist and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003elabor columnist Kim Kelly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFreed 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFight Like Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFight Like Hell\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis \"essential reading for anyone who believes that workers should control their fate\" (Shane Burley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy We Fight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e is a labor reporter for \u003ci\u003eIn These Times \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and has been a regular labor columnist for \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue \u003c\/i\u003esince 2018. Her writing on labor, class, disability, and culture has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV \u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003eHer first book, \u003ci\u003eFight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2022. A third-generation union member, she was born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens and currently lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e for \u003cem\u003eFight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Kelly unearths the stories of the people--farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees--behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You'll never look at American history the same way again.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fight Like Hell is the most important book on labor published in a generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ene Burley, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In FIGHT LIKE HELL you'll find the true stories of people who have fought to win a better world for themselves and everyone else who has to work for a living.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jeremy Brecher, author of National Bestseller \u003ci\u003eStrike!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rousing look at the contributions of marginalized groups to the U.S. labor movement [and] a powerful call for today's workers to fight for their rights.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Freshly inclusive [...] an excellent entry point for a new understanding of work in America.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Booklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-reasoned argument for restoring unions to their former role in the lives of American workers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Kirkus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously researched and beautifully told, [in \u003ci\u003eFIGHT LIKE HELL\u003c\/i\u003e] Kim Kelly has established herself as a true champion for the working class.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLiz Shuler, AFL-CIO President\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kim Kelly throws wide the doors to inspire all of us to seize power for ourselves by showing how--yesterday and today--the oppressed overlooked, the outcasts and the misfits, shaped history. \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sara Nelson, International President, Association of of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kim Kelly is a fresh and compelling voice telling the critical stories of working families that so many others ignore. The struggles of workers to form and build their unions in the face of exploitation and abuse have gone untold for far too long. This book breaks through that silence and brings the voices of workers and their families to the forefront where they belong.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Cecil Roberts, International President, United Mine Workers of America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this remarkable interweaving of past and present, Kim Kelly brings America's rich (and bloody) labor history, its most marginalized workers, and their most recent battles to vivid life [...] At once urgent and insightful, \u003ci\u003eFIGHT LIKE HELL\u003c\/i\u003e not only informs, it inspires.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Joseph A. 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