Here’s my annual list of books published in labor history, this one for 2025. If you know of a book published last year that should have been included, I can update this list; send to rfeurer@niu.edu. Thanks to the Taft Labor History Prize for sharing their list of books.
Amador, Emma. The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice. Duke University Press, 2025.
Andersson, Peter K. The Dandy: A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Ansfield, Bench. Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City. W. W. Norton, 2025.
Bailey, Martha J., Leah Platt Boustan, and William J. Collins, eds. The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Baker, Erik. Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. Harvard University Press, 2025.
Baker, Oliver. No More Peace: Abolition War and Counterrevolution. University of California Press, 2025.
Barber, William J., and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2025.
Batzell, Rudi. Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1929. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Berebitsky, Julie. Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire. Second edition. With, Katherine J. Parkin, and Katherine Turk. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Betts, Oliver, Laura Harrison, and Laura Christine Price, eds. Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement. Routledge, 2025.
Bonét, Sasha. The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters. Center Point, 2025.
Boyd, Kendra D. Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit. Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Brauer, Ralph. The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy. Georgetown University Press, 2025.
Bristol, Douglas. Building Bridges: Black GIs, Military Labor, and the Fight for Equality in World War II. University Press of Kansas, 2025.
Browne-Marshall, Gloria J. A Protest History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2025.
Butler, Reginald D. The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832. Edited by Peter S. Onuf. University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Callaci, Emily. Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight against Unpaid Labor. Seal Press, 2025.
Campbell, Isabel, ed. Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
Carney, Christina Jessica. Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego. University of California Press, 2025.
Cassidy, John. Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
Cheney, James. Women, Immigrants, and the Working-Class Battle in Little Falls, New York: The Textile Strike of 1912-1913. Algora, 2025.
Clayton, Owen, Iain McIntyre, and David Roediger. The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Derickson, Alan. Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Derifield, Coreen. We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest after World War II. University of Iowa Press, 2025.
Elias, Robert. Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball’s Neglected Trailblazer for Today’s Millionaire Athletes. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
Fahrenthold, Stacy D. Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class. Stanford University Press, 2025.
Feldman, Diane T. Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
Fernández Aceves, María Teresa. Freethinkers and Labor Leaders: Women, Social Change, and Politics in Modern Mexico. University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Fliter, John A. U.S. v. Darby Lumber: The Triumph of Fair Labor Standards. University Press of Kansas, 2025.
Flores, Lori A. Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Fortmueller, Kate, and Luci Marzola, eds. Hollywood Unions. Rutgers University Press, 2025.
Fouts, Sarah. Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Garbes, Angela. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Goings, Aaron. Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, 2025.
Gonzales, David-James. Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Goyens, Tom. Johann Most: Life of a Radical. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Greene, Julie. Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Hammitt Brown, Willa. Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Hartley, Roger C. The Assault on American Labor Law: Unions before the Supreme Court, 1965-2025. University of Massachusetts Press, 2025.
Hartman, Andrew. Karl Marx in America. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Howard, Ashley. Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Hultgren, John. The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States. The MIT Press, 2025.
Jackson, Justin F. The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Jackson, Shona N. Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition. University of California Press, 2025.
Jackson, Shona N. Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass. Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Juravich, Nick, and Steve Striffler, eds. The Pandemic and the Working Class: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Kaika, Maria, and Luca Ruggiero. Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization. University of California Press, 2025.
Kwoba, Brian. Hubert Harrison : Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Leon, Cedric de. Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. University of California Press, 2025.
Lewis, Karen G. J. Lewis, and Elizabeth Todd-Breland. I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education. Haymarket Books, 2025.
Lew-Williams, Beth. John Doe Chinaman : A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. Harvard University Press, 2025.
Lichtenstein, Nelson and Samir Santi. Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
Maich, Katherine Eva. Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights. Stanford University Press, 2025.
Maiorana, Juliette Charlie. The Mexican and American Mining Empire: A History of Capitalism Racializing Land, Labor, and Love. University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Masten, April F. Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
McCrossen, Alexis, ed. American Life during the Industrial Age: A Social and Cultural History in Essays and Documents. Routledge, 2025.
McGuire, Charlie. Steelworkers in Struggle: An Oral History of the 1980 National Steel Strike. Manchester University Press, 2025.
McNally, David. Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. University of California Press, 2025.
Michels, Steven, ed. This Hard Land: Scenes from the American Working Class. Lexington Books, 2025.
Nash, Peggy, and Julie White. Women United: Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union. Between the Lines, 2025.
Nelson, Thomas M. Wrecked : The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy Michigan State University, 2025.
Nolan, Mike. Hardhat Days : My Re-Education in Seattle’s Shipyards. Basalt Books, 2025.
Noll, Jody Baxter. The 1968 Florida Teachers’ Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism. Louisiana State University Press, 2025.
Oram, Ruby. Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Pacyga, Dominic A. Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Pearson, Charles E. Rough Rice and Sea Island Cotton: The Georgia Coasting Trade, 1800-1861. Mercer University Press, 2025.
Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T. Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World. Georgetown University Press, 2025.
Quinlan, Elizabeth. Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike, 1958. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
Ramirez, Marla Andrea. Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. Harvard University Press, 2025.
Reuther, Alan. Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights. 2025.
Shaun, Richman. We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Robinson, Beth. Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century. Duke University Press, 2025.
Roediger, David R. An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education. First edition. Fordham University Press, 2025.
Sampson, Elissa, and Robert Zecker, eds. From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930-1954. ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2025.
Schuhrke, Jeff. No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine. Haymarket Books, 2025.
Schuster, Noah. Deserting the Superstore : Everyday Agency and Moral Economy in Retail Work. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Scott, Jerome, and Walda Katz-Fishman. Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Shindel, Len. The Strike That Changed Maryland’s Wilderness County. Hard Ball Press, 2025.
Smith, Jane S. A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher under Fire. Rutgers University Press, 2025.
Stauch, Michael. Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Stone, David. American Poison : A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice. Penguin Random, 2025.
Suhrbuhr, Thomas J. Public Education and Social Reform: A History of the Illinois Education Association. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Tiemeyer, Philip James. Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Trasciatti, Mary Anne. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution. Rutgers University Press, 2025.
Trotter, Joe William. From Enslavement to COVID-19: A History of African American Health and Labor. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Williams, Naomi R. A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Witt, John Fabian. The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Wood, Augustus. Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Wyss, Bob. Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal. University of California Press, 2025.
