Kim Kelly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Kim Kelly is a journalist, author, and labor activist. Feral freelance journalist / Author of âFIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Laborâ/ Labor column @teenvogue + @fastcompany / kimkellywrites@gmail đ´

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Melinda Chateauvert
@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend âSex Workers Uniteâ and âMarching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Portersâ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moranâs âThe Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Woveâ
Paperback, 1997
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. Blain
@fshakir Always nonfiction! A couple recent faves have been @MorganJerkins 'Wandering in Strange Lands,' @KeishaBlain 'Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America,' 'and 'Being Heumann: an Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist'
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
Jessie Singer
Happy pub day to @jessiesingernyc and 'There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and DisasterâWho Profits and Who Pays the Price.' As I said in the blurb, this book will make you think hard about death and power (and will make you mad as hell!) https://t.co/gledfU0G6B https://t.co/z2cJVdADCr
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
The updated paperback edition of my book, âFIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Laborâ drops 8/29 via @OneSignalPub, and you can preorder it for 25% off at @BNBuzz today and tomorrow with code PREORDER25! Itâs my birthday this weekend too ;) https://t.co/W82OLRn58l
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Lindsey Fitzharris
@jeannakadlec Extremely valid (I donât ever look at mine either, it gets WEIRD on there!!). In that case, a couple of my faves this year have been Adam Hochschildâs âRebel Cinderella,â Lindsey Fitzharrisâ âThe Facemaker,â and Betsey Prioleauâs âDiamonds and Deadlinesâ
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks
Ginny Savage Ayers
@bobfunk I'm so glad you're enjoying it! You might dig this one too, 'Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks' https://t.co/Op5tntIuom
Paperback, 2018
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
William Moran
@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend âSex Workers Uniteâ and âMarching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Portersâ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moranâs âThe Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Woveâ
Paperback, 2004
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger
You can read about the past and present of prisonersâ labor organizing in my book, and I also highly recommend @dnbrgrâs âCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Eraâ (and all of his other work too!) https://t.co/bUszXd16st
Paperback, 2016
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
Should probably mention that the paperback edition of âFIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Laborâ comes out next month and is available to preorder here, hahaaaa https://t.co/yQjFUrPlVs https://t.co/BefIAIvHrb
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen
Recommended further reading: Audra Jennings, âOut of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America;â Kim Nielsen, âA Disability History of the United States;â Richard A. Brisbin, âA Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strikeâ
Paperback, 2013
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book