Kim Kelly is coming to Unbound!

From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes, Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of Portland’s Stripper Strike, interest in organized labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s. Joining Marcia Chatelain on our panel on Labor and Work, we thrilled to welcome the brilliant Kim Kelly to Unbound. Kim’s book, Fight Like Hell, is a revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement. Inspirational, intersectional, and full of crucial lessons from the past, the book shows what is possible when the working class demands the dignity it has always deserved.

Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and labor activist. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Esquire, among many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV. Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at Noisey, VICE’s music vertical, and was an original member of the VICE Union. She was born in the heart of the South Jersey Pine Barrens, and currently lives in Philadelphia with a hard-workin’ man, a couple of taxidermied bears, and way too many books. Fight Like Hell is her first book.