Best of
Labor
1948
The Great Midland
Alexander Saxton - 1948
It was published in 1948, when cold-war hysteria engulfed the United States; the publisher subsequently tried to pretend the book did not exist, and review media and bookstores ignored it. The book vividly depicts the multiracial and multiethnic alliances that developed as Chicago railroad workers struggled to organize. It presents some of its narrative through the complex consciousness of Stephanie Koviak, a young, first-generation Polish-American.
Wobbly: Rough and Tumble Story of an American Radical (American Autobiography)
Ralph Chaplin - 1948
Originally published: University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1948.