novels with union/labour themes

[doeraymee]

Can anyone recommend any historical novels with labour themes? Maybe about a strike or a union organizing project, etc. I'm writing a novel in which a strike figures and am looking at how other writers have handled these issues (what to do, what to avoid!).

So far I've got:
Thunder on the mountian (David Poyer)
The Island Walkers (John Bemrose)
Out of this Furnace (Thomas Bell)
Fire in the Hole (Sybil Downing)
The Bolshevik's Revenge (Allan Levine)

[johnnysannie]

Labor unions are near and dear to my heart (as the descendant of several staunch labor supporters and union folk).

Here are some:

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
A Place Called Freedom, Ken Follett
Dreamland, Kevin Baker
Wabash, Robert Olen Butler
In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath (in part), John Steinbeck

There was a movie about the coal strike and battle at Matewan, West Virginia and may be some novels too but I don't know of any.

[doeraymee]

thanks JOhnny. I will check these out.