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[quote=Anonymous]For a pretty dense history of a pretty interesting case, there's Big Trouble, by J. Anthony Lukas.  It's about the trial of Big Bill Haywood for the murder if Idaho's former governor, and it's really wide-ranging, covering the labor movement and American culture generally in the first quarter of the twentieth century.  The cast of characters includes Clarence Darrow, Joe Hill, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Teddy Roosevelt, and our local hero, Walter Johnson.  Parts of it are a slog but most of it is really interesting.

For a much lighter, easier read, there's A Whole Different Ballgame, by Marvin Miller.  It's about how he turned the Major League Baseball Players Association from a small organization of company men into the first real union in professional sports.

Somewhere in the middle is Joe Hill, by Wallace Stegner.  It's not strict history, it's a biographical novel.  He's a wonderful writer.

If you like your labor history with a side of organized crime, there are a bunch of books written about the Teamsters.  The leader is probably The Teamsters, by Steven Brill.  It's fascinating to learn how the building of Las Vegas was financed.  (By the Central States' Pension Fund, controlled by the syndicates in Cleveland and Kansas City.)

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