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Tell the Bosses We're Coming
How labor union organizing can help leverage today's movements, and why workers need unions more than ever beforeLengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security… Never have...
The World Turned Upside Down?
A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization...
Union Power
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are...
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique...
Silvertown
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factorywas the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the Londonindustrial district which bore his name: Silvertown. Once referredto...
Save Our Unions
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress bringstogether recent essays and reporting by labor journalist SteveEarly. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers,whether they’re...
Insurgent Images
"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world."Martin Sheen The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the...
Under the Raj
Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Under the Raj explores the world of the prostitute...
Meatpackers
"Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich...
A New Labor Movement for the New Century
"This spirited collection is indispensable reading for anyone who wants to know what it will take for unions to inspire and mobilize a mass movement that will transform our nation, deepen our commitment...
Politics of US Labor
The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course of class relations in the United States...
Bureaucracy and the Labor Process
This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying,...
Studies in the Labor Theory of Value
This pioneering survey of the development of the “labor theory of value,” advances Marxian economic categories for contemporary conditions.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell’s great working-class novel.