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Fight Like Hell
A review of

Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor


To the Barricades!

by Erica Rauzin

New Republic journalist Kim Kelly offers an impassioned history of the United States’ labor movements and the tactics owners used against workers.

Journalist Kim Kelly, who writes on labor, class, politics and culture, offers a history of United States labor movements, highlighting courageous workers and union leaders; the prominent role of women in labor organizing, and corporations’ often-violent anti-union tactics. 

Kelly’s work appears in the New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Nation and Esquire. She is also a columnist for Teen Vogue.