Labor & Industrial Relations
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
Millions of Americans work full- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808316
- Language: English
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Fight to Win!: Heroes of American Labor (the Young Readers Edition of Fight Like Hell)
$8.99 Add to cartThe 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.
The- Author: Kelly, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1665937300
- Language: English
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Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
$44.95 Add to cartThe first-ever comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its infamous leader, Cesar Chavez–“one of the most attractive and charismatic figures U.S. politics has produc… [more below]
- Author: Bardacke, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1781680663
- Language: English
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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA
$18.00 Read moreDuring the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers about their jobs. What was it like working in a meatpacking plant in C… [more below]
- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 154027022X
- Language: English
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Trade Up: Why the Future Belongs to Skilled Trades and How Career Education is Transforming the Workforce
$19.95 Add to cartThe four-year college degree has been the preferred path for generations of Americans who saw it as the most direct way to climb the economic ladder. But today, record numbers of college graduates are
- Author: Altmire, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888194447
- Language: English
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Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World
$29.95 Add to cartWhat are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?
Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seventeenth century or in Amazon warehous- Author: Snow, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1804293202
- Language: English
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
$24.95 Add to cartAn exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future
In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecno- Author: Mueller, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1786636778
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$24.95 Add to cartA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist hi
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635909
- Language: English
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Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
$19.95 Add to cartAn actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.
Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or eve
- Author: Gross, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905937
- Language: English
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Take Bread: Early Writings on Political Violence
$9.95 Add to cart“They will go on robbing you, your children, and your children’s children, unless you wake up, unless you become daring enough to demand your rights. Well, then, demonstrate before the palaces of the
- Series: Underpinnings
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1957112204
- Language: English
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When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a p… [more below]
- Author: Smalls, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700635
- Language: English
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An Organizer’s Tale: Speeches
$18.00 Add to cartThe first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez
One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of no- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chavez, Cesar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105264
- Language: English
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The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know about How Capital Works
$34.95 Add to cartThe world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx’s masterwork
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx’s work, particul- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1836742118
- Language: English
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Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers
$18.95 Read moreA Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 – One of The Hill Times‘ Top 100 Best Books in 2025 – Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award
A series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the p
- Author: Di Cintio, Marcello
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966599
- Language: English
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
$24.95 Add to cartAn exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future
In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecno- Author: Mueller, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1786636778
- Language: English
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A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe
$19.95 Read moreWhy does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and … [more below]
- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298565
- Language: English
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No Neutrals There: Us Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians.
US trade unionists are
- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904558
- Language: English
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Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
$26.00 Add to cartFor fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models serve the extremely wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary people–and h… [more below]
- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1668085143
- Language: English
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Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartBrings to life Grays Harbor’s fiery legacy of class conflict
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime w
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754001
- Language: English
