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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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 Read moreFrom 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 Add to cartWhy 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
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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
