Labor & Industrial Relations
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The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders
$12.95 Add to cartLeo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Stephen Maher provide a newly updated and expanded primer for twenty-first century democratic socialists. The Socialist Challenge Today presents an essential historical, t
- Author: Panitch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1642591289
- Language: English
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
$16.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent step… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0316414212
- Language: English
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A Trucker’s Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
$16.99 Add to cartWit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.
They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the f
- Author: Miller, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1954641818
- Language: English
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
$20.00 Read moreHistory is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals–it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere ha
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Working Class History, Working Class His
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629638234
- Language: English
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Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Galvanizing and urgent….a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle.” –National Public Radio
A riveting true
- Author: Worley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062971328
- Language: English
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The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
$22.95 Add to cartIn the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the “floater fleet.” When Billy Gohl (1873-1927), a powerful union offic
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751207
- Language: English
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Teamster Rebellion
$16.00 Read moreThe 1934 strikes that built the industrial union movement in Minneapolis and helped pave the way for the CIO, recounted by a central leader of that battle. The first in a four-volume series on the cla
- Series: Teamster
- Author: Dobbs, Farrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 087348973X
- Language: English
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$21.95 Add to cartStrikes and union battles occurred throughout American industry during the early part of the twentieth century, but none of these stories compare to the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912 and 1921. These
- Author: Corbin, David Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1604864524
- Language: English
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Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
$22.95 Add to cartA global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation i
- Author: Dawson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1642599700
- Language: English
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Holding the Line
$20.95 Add to cartHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver’s first non-fiction book, is the story of women’s lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and par
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0801483891
- Language: English
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Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement
$24.95 Read more- Author: Salas, Jesus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600073
- Language: English
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Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
$24.95 Add to cartDeeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness
working-class militancy and jump st- Author: Melrod, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639656
- Language: English
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Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World
$12.00 Read moreIn the 1960s and ’70s, class struggle surged in U.S. industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in dif… [more below]
- Author: Ignatiev, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860003
- Language: English
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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
$24.99 Read moreThe Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end o… [more below]
- Author: Wooldridge, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1510768610
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity
$18.95 Read moreA sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and unbreakable alliances, Revolutionary Affinities takes readers from the Paris Commune to the Occupy movement, and through the heart of bloody fratricida
- Series: Kairos
- Author: L?wy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639699
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Add to cartMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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Demographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient Future
$29.99 Add to cartWhen global headlines declared that the world had surpassed 8 billion people, concerns around overpopulation and its impact on our planet escalated.
But beneath the surface, after digging through that
- Author: Whitney, Dustin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1642258172
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings
$15.95 Add to cartNow in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx’s son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and p… [more below]
- Author: Lafargue, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376822
- Language: English
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On Solidarity
$19.95 Read moreOn Solidarity clarifies a key idea in struggles for a more just world. What does solidarity mean, and how can diverse movements build enough of it to change society?
Organizer and political theorist M
- Author: Inouye Et Al, Mie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1946511846
- Language: English
