A review by krayfish1
A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

5.0

The focus of the book is not so much on the strikes as on the history of the labor movement from textile workers in New England and slaves' action during the Civil War to the 8-hour work day to the union-busting of the 1980's. It's a different picture of America than you get in high school history books, which is generally "look at all this progress we made, we are always moving forward and getting better" vs. this book, which is more "here's a fight where we were beaten, here's a fight where we won in the short term and lost in the long term, here's a fight where we didn't make much progress, here's a fight we were able to build on 20 years later, here's how we lost a lot of progress".