“凯利挖掘了劳工运动一些最大成功背后的农民、家政工人和工厂雇员的故事。”-《纽约时报》
《独立记者》和《青少年时尚》劳工专栏作家金·凯利（Kim Kelly）撰写的美国劳工运动的启示性和包容性历史。
在南方重建时期，黑人妇女组织起来寻求保护。犹太移民服装工人冒着致命的危险争取独立。亚裔美国野外工作者拒绝在太平洋地区接受政府批准的契约劳役。被监禁的工人倡导基本人权和公平工资。帮助策划美国民权运动的古怪黑人劳工领袖。这些只是推动美国劳工在法律下不懈追求公平和平等保护的工人阶级英雄中的一部分。
无数沉默、失实或被遗忘的领导人的名字和面孔随着时间的推移被抹去，因为少数特权阶层决定从最终版本中删掉哪些故事：女性、有色人种、LGBTQIA人、残疾人、性工作者、囚犯和穷人。在这部权威且经过认真研究的新闻作品中，《青少年时尚》专栏作家和独立劳工记者金·凯利（Kim Kelly）挖掘了这段不为人知的历史，并展示了今天美国工人每周工作40小时的权利、工作场所安全标准、对童工的限制、在工作中免受骚扰和歧视是如何用鲜血、汗水和汗水赢得的，还有眼泪。
在美国，像地狱一样的战斗发生在经济清算的时候。从亚马逊的仓库到星巴克的咖啡馆，从阿巴拉契亚的煤矿到波特兰脱衣舞女罢工的性工作者，人们对有组织劳工的兴趣达到了自20世纪60年代初以来前所未有的高度。鼓舞人心的、相互交叉的、充满了过去重要教训的《像地狱一样的战斗》展示了当工人阶级要求其永远应得的尊严时，什么是可能的。
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
“Kelly unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes.” —The New York Times
A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the working-class heroes who propelled American labor’s relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law.
The names and faces of countless silenced, misrepresented, or forgotten leaders have been erased by time as a privileged few decide which stories get cut from the final copy: those of women, people of color, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, sex workers, prisoners, and the poor. In this definitive and assiduously researched work of journalism, Teen Vogue columnists and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that untold history and shows how the rights the American worker has today—the forty-hour workweek, workplace-safety standards, restrictions on child labor, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job—were earned with literal blood, sweat, and tears.
Fight Like Hell comes at a time of economic reckoning in America. From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes, Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of Portland’s Stripper Strike, interest in organized labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s. Inspirational, intersectional, and full of crucial lessons from the past, Fight Like Hell shows what is possible when the working class demands the dignity it has always deserved.
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