working class

Young Flora keeps a journal of her time in a textile mill after leaving an orphanage to live with her aunt and uncle, covering the dangers of being injured or going deaf, her feelings over losing her parents at a young age, and her struggle to help her relatives survive.

Presents photographs and stories of some of the working people responsible for the creation of New York City in the twentieth century, including factory workers, longshoremen, builders, industrialists, typists, and others.

The author chronicles the life of his grandfather, whom he never met but came to know through his grandmother and mother, describing this larger-than-life southern man's work ethic during the Great Depression, his love for his family, and his zest for life at all times.

A fictional description of the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Fifteen-year-old Sonny Bravo moves with his mother and her new husband to an apartment complex called The Flowers where he becomes caught up in the lives of his neighbors, and tries to do what he can to ease the racial tensions that threaten to destroy all of them.

Examines the home, work, and social lives of working-class adolescent boys in England between 1890 and 1914, covering family dynamics, education, labor, street "lounging," commercial entertainment, and organized youth movements.

Examines Eleanor Roosevelt's ties to the American labor movement as an advocate and as a member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild, discussing her vision of labor rights as human rights, and looking at the friends and criticism she drew in her support for workers.

Agnes Browne struggles to raise her five children after her husband dies, leaving her destitute in Dublin.

A collection of four short stories by award-winning author Tillie Olsen.