Labor & Industrial Relations
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Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions
$25.99 Add to cartAn essential and timely guide to the changing landscape of the labor movement, from a veteran labor organizer
“The best overview of the recent labor upsurge we have yet seen. This will remain a must-- Author: Kamper, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 162097908X
- Language: English
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions o… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1476765871
- Language: English
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The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartThe Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country.
Michael Ansa
- Author: Ansara, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782142
- Language: English
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Dying For Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders
$31.99 Add to cartOn September 18, 1992 a violent explosion deep in Yellowknife’s Giant mine took the lives of nine miners. The men had defied the picket lines that were the scene of violent clashes between the minewor… [more below]
- Author: Selleck, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1038306248
- Language: English
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
$29.95 Add to cartHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad
Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade–and its devastatin- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 183976905X
- Language: English
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The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion
$18.00 Add to cart“Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, and identity.”–Chris Kraus
A rebellion, guns, a… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550682
- Language: English
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Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable
$21.95 Add to cart“We are in a fight for our lives against a rising authoritarian tide, and this clear-eyed, compelling, clarion call of a book has a message everyone needs to hear.”—Astra Taylor, author of Democracy
- Author: Potter, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869148
- Language: English
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Trouble! at Coal Creek
$22.95 Add to cartThis gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War–one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in the history of the United States.
Told through t- Author: Sauerbrei, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903766
- Language: English
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Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
$29.99 Read moreThe top American writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizing
In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all n
- Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978814
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607023
- Language: English
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Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits
“I’m not any more altruistic than the next guy, I’m just greedy for a differe
- Author: Driscoll, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978822
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
$26.95 Read moreA timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you’re confronted by- Author: Hester, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1786633078
- Language: English
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The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy
$21.95 Read moreA visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use th
- Author: Brecher, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088271
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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The Second O of Sorrow
$17.00 Add to cartA lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1942683553
- Language: English
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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
$27.95 Add to cartAn acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them
While the Thirteenth Amend- Author: Berry, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 807007838
- Language: English
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The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898
$23.00 Add to cartThe Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 unveils the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most influential socialist thinkers and revolutionary leaders. In this groundbreaking
- Author: McCabe, Conor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330435319
- Language: English
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Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$19.95 Add to cartIn the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The origins of this
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Tyler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440590
- Language: English
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The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898
$46.67 Add to cartThe Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 unveils the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most influential socialist thinkers and revolutionary leaders. In this groundbreaking
- Author: McCabe, Conor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79833E+12
- Language: English
