A review by smallcasualbooktok
A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I really loved this one!! I listened to the audiobook, and it really drew me in, plus I think the narrator was great. I am working in union-side labor law after law school, so obviously I was already predisposed to like it, but I think anyone interested in unions, beginner or expert, would love this book. I learned so much and everything was explained so well. It's obviously just a tiny bit out of date, as it was published in 2018 and so much labor news has happened since then (Starbucks, Amazon, Kellogg, etc) but I thought it was a great and digestible history of labor strikes, but also labor movements as a whole. I also feel that the author definitely made an effort to have this be an inclusive history, with a discussion of race, gender, sex, and sexual orientation in labor throughout the book, obviously, some things were left out, but I felt overall it was really well done. I really think any American worker should read this, and can't recommend it enough to people interested in unions and labor!