Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor
by Kim Kelly
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jun 2026 on Behind the Bastards.
The general take
Kim Kelly is enthusiastic about her new young readers edition of Fight to Win, promoting it as an affordable paperback with diverse and inclusive content aimed at kids eight and up. She's clearly proud of the book's radical credentials and is actively encouraging teachers and parents to share it with children, though she notes the publisher rejected her preferred title of "Fight Like Heck."
About
The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now in a “rousing…passionate” ( Kirkus Reviews ) young readers edition. The history of American labor is full of incredible leaders, organizers, and workers, but not all of them have gotten the recognition they deserve. People like… Rosina Tucker, a Black woman who helped railroad workers organize the first Black-led labor union in America, Maria Moreno, an Indigenous and Mexican woman who fought for farmworkers in the fields of California, Ah Quon McElrath, a Chinese Hawaiian woman who united the laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations, Ben Fletcher, a Black dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of Philadelphia, Judy Heumann, a disabled Jewish schoolteacher who became the mother of the Disability Rights Movement…and many more.
Who said what
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…kim kelly discussing her new young readers edition labor history book
“I do. It just came out. The Young Readers edition of Fight Like Hell, which is called Fight to Win Heroes of American Labor. I thought it'd be really funny to call it Fight Like Heck, but they did not agree with me... So it's Fight to Win, but it's, it's out. It's like really cheap. It's in paperback. It's summer reading time. Tell your teacher friends, tell your little radical children.”
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