{"product_id":"fight-to-win-heroes-of-american-labor-the-young-readers-edition-of-fight-like-hell","title":"Fight to Win!: Heroes of American Labor - The Young Readers Edition of Fight Like Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e labor columnist Kim Kelly, now in a \"rousing...passionate\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) young readers edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe history of American labor is full of incredible leaders, organizers, and workers, but not all of them have gotten the recognition they deserve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople like...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRosina Tucker, a Black woman who helped railroad workers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaria Moreno, an Indigenous and Mexican woman who fought for farmworkers in the fields of California,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAh Quon McElrath, a Chinese Hawaiian woman who united the laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBen Fletcher, a Black dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of Philadelphia,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJudy Heumann, a disabled Jewish schoolteacher who became the mother of the Disability Rights Movement...and many more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith blood, sweat, and tears, they \u003ci\u003efought to win\u003c\/i\u003e the rights we hold so dear today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir voices reveal the true history of American labor.\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 to Win!: Heroes of American Labor\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRousing tales of courageous workers who dared to fight for better, safer jobs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this young readers' version of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFight Like Hell\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(2022), Kelly leaves out the chapter on activist sex workers and recasts the rest into individual profiles of 22 organizers and advocates. Giants in the great struggle, like Frances Perkins, Mother Jones, Eugene V. Debs (who ran for president from prison in 1920), and Judy Heumann have entries, and she also includes more recent, lesser-known heroes. The subjects are diverse, including people of color, immigrants, and other people from marginalized groups. Kelly chronicles their triumphs and tragedies and their relentless battles with largely faceless, uniformly hostile bosses. Her rhetoric often takes a fiery turn: \"I could feel the heat roll off her words,\" she writes about an interview with Jennifer Bates, one of the leaders in a bitter, ongoing struggle against \"Jeff Bezos's goons\" to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Still, she reminds readers that her most iconic subjects were complex, fallible humans, acknowledging Bayard Rustin's support for the war in Vietnam, for example, or how César Chávez and Dolores Huerta froze their longtime co-worker Maria Moreno out of the United Farm Workers. A passionate read that would pair well with J. 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