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For American Labor, the Past Isn’t Past
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YES! Magazine - Issues
After losing ground for decades, American workers appear to be fighting back against inadequate wages, subpar benefits, and consolidated corporate power.
It isn’t hard to imagine that the work of these reporters has inspired a few union drives.
In Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Kelly gives historical context to the fights for worker justice that she has been witnessing and reporting on for years.
So little of our labor history makes it into mainstream narratives—which is strange, when you think about it, because the vast majority of Americans are workers.
Reading Kelly’s book, I wondered who from the current wave of organizing would be immortalized by labor historians—which baristas, which warehouse workers, which flight attendants and cashiers.
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