This book mostly functions as a rapid-fire distillation of US labor history facts - names, dates, and brief descriptions with little analysis or macro perspective. These facts are certainly useful and interesting, but the lack of context makes it a bit much. The choices of where to focus also strike me as bizarre - approximately 1 page on the Haymarket Affair, a paragraph on the Clayton Act and the Wagner Act, but an entire chapter devoted to the 2010s? Macro trends are mostly mentioned in passing, which makes it difficult to understand how muted the US labor movement became in the late 20th century. The AFL and CIO get the most consistent attention, and the sections that follow their winding history are exceptional and insightful. Highly recommend