Kim Kelly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kim Kelly

@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend ‘Sex Workers Unite’ and ‘Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moran’s ‘The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove’

Kim Kelly

@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'

Kim Kelly

Happy pub day to @jessiesingernyc and 'There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who 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

Kim Kelly

The updated paperback edition of my book, ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ drops 8/29 via @OneSignalPub, and you can preorder it for 25% off at @BNBuzz today and tomorrow with code PREORDER25! It’s my birthday this weekend too ;) https://t.co/W82OLRn58l

Kim Kelly

@jeannakadlec Extremely valid (I don’t ever look at mine either, it gets WEIRD on there!!). In that case, a couple of my faves this year have been Adam Hochschild’s ‘Rebel Cinderella,’ Lindsey Fitzharris’ ‘The Facemaker,’ and Betsey Prioleau’s ‘Diamonds and Deadlines’

Kim Kelly

@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

Kim Kelly

@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend ‘Sex Workers Unite’ and ‘Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moran’s ‘The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove’

Kim Kelly

You can read about the past and present of prisoners’ labor organizing in my book, and I also highly recommend @dnbrgr’s ‘Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era’ (and all of his other work too!) https://t.co/bUszXd16st

Kim Kelly

Should probably mention that the paperback edition of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ comes out next month and is available to preorder here, hahaaaa https://t.co/yQjFUrPlVs https://t.co/BefIAIvHrb

Kim Kelly

Recommended further reading: Audra Jennings, ‘Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America;’ Kim Nielsen, ‘A Disability History of the United States;’ Richard A. Brisbin, ‘A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike’