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Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop gr. 5-9

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson gr. 5-8

Rockbuster by Gloria Skurzynski. gr. 6-10

So Far From Home : The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl by Barry Denenberg. gr. 5-8

Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers and Work, ed. Anne Mazer gr 8+

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch gr. 6-9

Triangle by Katherine Webber gr. 9+

The Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement in America by R. Conrad Stein

Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution by Jerry Stanley

Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City by Mike Smith

Sit Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 by Sidney Fine

Society Sisters : Stories of Women Who Fought for Social Justice in America by Catherine Gourley gr. 6-9

Sweat and Blood: A History of U.S. Labor Unions by Gloria Skurzynski. From the carpenter's union in colonial Philadelphia to the strike in 2007 by Chinese restaurant delivery men in New York City, the history of how brave working people struggled to gain fair wages, reasonable hours, and secure lives by forming labor unions.

The Triangle Factory Fire by Victoria Sherrow gr. 5-8

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein

Child labor : An American History by Hugh D. Hindman. gr 10+

Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti gr 5-8

Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti gr. 5-8

Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman gr. 5+

The Reuther Brothers: Walter, Roy and Victor by Mike and Pam Smith

Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Barbara C. Cruz gr. 7+

Eugene V. Debs: Outspoken Labor Leader and Socialist by Charles W. Carey gr. 6-9

The Importance of Mother Jones by Madelyn Horton gr. 6-9

Mother Jones: One Woman’s Fight for Labor by Betsy Harvey Kraft gr. 4-7