A history of America in ten strikes
by Erik Loomis · first published 2018
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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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It isn't quite what you're asking for, but _A History of America in Ten Strikes_ by Eric Loomis is a great book of the general history of American labor. The telling of the stories includes a lot of the strategy and tactics, legal and otherwise, of busting unions down to where they…
on “Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways” ↗Sorry, there's no way I'm spoon-feeding you the whole history of labor. Maybe read Loomis's "A History of America in Ten Strikes" as a starting point. And then maybe Beckert's "Empire of Cotton" for the broader, systemic view.
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