A history of America in ten strikes

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Erik Loomis: A history of America in ten strikes (2018, The New Press)

301 pages

English language

Published 2018 by The New Press.

ISBN:
978-1-62097-161-1
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OCLC Number:
1054787040

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"... labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment"--

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reviewed A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

A Very Left Wing, Weirdly Isolationist, but Important History

Very few American histories focus on labor, but this book does an excellent job reviewing major events in US labor history and connecting them with the larger arc of worker power and economic/political development. This is a very left wing book, and is often extremely contradictory - criticizing companies opening factories in Mexico while bemoaning discrimination against Mexican immigrants within US borders. Still, overall this is a meaningful addition to the US historical canon. Highly recommend

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Subjects

  • History
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Labor disputes

Places

  • United States

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