 | State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence by Philip Dine
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $7.48 A top "50" Amazon reviewer calls this "possibly the most important book to America's future." Journalist Philip Dine writes about organized labor's achievements and failures, its champions and culprits, and documents rank-and-file union member struggles....and assesses labors decline and identifies strategies for labor's survival.
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 | The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi by Les Leopold
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.99 This book about a formidable labor organizer and longtime leader is very popular, especially among labor leaders.
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 | The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $2.43 The Big Squeeze, written by a NYT reporter, is a good read with worker anecdotes and a look at the forces behind labor economics today.
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy used from: $0.01 Written in 2001 and still going strong, this writer decided to experience what some 12 million women in the labor market endure by living their lives. She worked as a waitress, cleaning woman, nursing home assistant and writes about it..
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 | Labor Relations: Striking a Balance by John W. Budd
Buy new: $157.81 / Used from: $13.99 For a thorough, but dryer read than the above, turn to John Budd's Labor Relations for a compendium of labor law, union organizing, bargaining, dispute resolution issues.
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