Books & Music

Below is a list of recommended books, songs, and documentaries about coal mining and/or the labor movement that are recommended by the United Mine Workers of America. If you would like your work reviewed by the United Mine Workers of America, email journal@umwa.org.

 

New Release

Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

 

 

Drawn from her autobiography, letters, speeches, and interviews, FIGHT LIKE HELL is as bold and forceful as Mother Jones herself. Adapted from Obie Award-winning Actress Kaiulani Lee’s one-woman play “Can’t Scare Me,” FIGHT LIKE HELL was written and performed by Lee and directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney.

 

The River Drivers – Big Oak Road

Released in 2019, some of the UMWA’s favorite songs include:

Children’s March (Mother Jones)

Union Man

Farewell Johnny Miner

 

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“These songs tell the stories of people who were just trying to get by and had other peoples’ for-tunes made on their backs—the stories of what they suffered through and what they did to overcome.”

 

Books

UMWA and other Labor History

Historical Fiction

The Labor Movement

Music

Documentaries