Considering Labor: three books, three stories

Toni Gilpin. The Long Deep Grudge: A story of big capital, radical labor, and class war in the American Heartland. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2020. 422 pages.

Edward McClelland. Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint and the strike that created the middle class. Boston: Beacon Press. 2021. 221 pages.

Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: a story in urban revolution. 1975 (3rd ed 2012). 254 pages.

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a collection of things

David Blight. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Simon and Schuster, 2018. 912 pages.

Eddie Glaude Jr. Begin Again. Crown Publishing, 2020. 272 pages.

James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time. Dial Press: 1963. 128 pages.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries. Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. NYU Press, 2010. 372 pages.

Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Vintage Books, 2011. 640 pages.

David Paul Kuhn. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2020. 416 pages.

Toni Gilpin. The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland. Haymarket Books. 2020. 425 pages.

Walter Brueggemann. Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture. Westminster John Knox Press. 2013. 112 pages.

Isabel Wilkerson. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House 2020. 496 pages.

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