If money makes the world go round, labor makes all that money move. Labor Day may begin the month but we are taking all of September to celebrate work in all its forms. Whether it's physical or mental, indoors or out in the elements, domestic or corporate, rewarding or exhausting, labor has presented in all forms throughout the ages. Take a look at the list below to discover how we view our daily toil and what the jobs of the future may look like:
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein
The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era by Ronald W. Schatz
Compassionate Careers: Making a Living by Making a Difference by Jeffrey W. Pryor
Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change edited by Ellen Cole and Lisa A. Hollis-Sawyer
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin C. Streeter
Part-time for All: A Care Manifesto by Jennifer Nedelsky
Hillbilly Highway: the Transappalachian Migration and the Making of A White Working Class by Max Fraser
Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus by Nigel M. de S Cameron
Free Time: The History of An Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross
Greenwich Village 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman by Mary Jane Treacy
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s by Traci Parker
Feeding the Machine: the Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I. by James Muldoon
Stayin' Alive: the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie
Workplace Justice Without Unions by Hoyt N. Wheeler
Creating the Commonwealth: the Economic Culture of Puritan New England by Stephen Innes
Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland by Stephen Meyer
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin D. G. Kelley
Labor's Love Lost: the Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America by Andrew J. Cherlin
Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint and the Strike That Created the Middle Class by Ted McClelland
Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises by Leon Fink, Joseph Anthony McCartin and Joan Sangster
Women Have Always Worked: A Concise History by Alice Kessler-Harris
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, An Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make this Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism edited by Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson
Passionate Work: Choreographing A Dance Career by Ruth Horowitz
Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and their Unions by Tom Juravich
Work's Intimacy by Melissa Gregg
What Work Is by Robert Bruno
Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell
Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life by Frank Tobias Higbie
Ginseng Roots: A Memoir by Craig Thompson
The Woman Behind the New Deal: the Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees by Peter Cappelli
The Labors of Fear: the Modern Horror Film Goes to Work edited by Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton
Women Still At Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job by Elizabeth F. Fideler
Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad Pearson
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley
The Era Was Lost: the Rise and Fall of New York City's Rank-and-File Rebels by Glenn Dyer
Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
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