This list of favourite fiction by labor activists is by Laura McClure, 1/31/2013: http://labornotes.org/2013/01/novel-idea-fiction-labor-activists ; some titles are about working class people. It is a long list so I just searched the first bunch. Here is a selection to explore:
- The Ink Truck: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=ink+truck&searchCode=TALL&recCount=25&searchType=1#
- In Dubious Battle: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=104409
- Sometimes a great notion: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=18342
- Men and Steel: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001432246
- Germinal (DVD based on Zola): http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=627321
- Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=119665
- House on Mango Street: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=119665
- Bastard out of Carolina: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=225145
- n the skin of a lion : a novel: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=179029
