Kim Kelly

Photograph by Liz Kross

About The Author

Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV.Her first book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, was published in 2022. A third-generation union member, she was born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens and currently lives in Philadelphia.

Books by Kim Kelly

Fight to Win!

Heroes of American Labor (The Young Readers Edition of Fight Like Hell)

By Kim Kelly
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.
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Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

By Kim Kelly
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Esquire

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New...
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