A History of America in Ten Strikes

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

Huge fan of Loomis' work at www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/ and love his writing. I wish it wasn't so damn depressing, but that's not his fault, it's ours. Excellent history of the fate of labor in the United States, using the titular strikes as a framing device.