Labor & Industrial Relations
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Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
$29.99 Add to cartThe 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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1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike
$15.00 Read moreAfter suffering the hardships and horrors of the First World War, workers and soldiers faced the agony of the post-war Canadian economy. With rising inflation, unprecedented unemployment, and an incre
- Author: Graphic History Collective
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771134208
- 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 Read moreIn 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
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
$19.00 Add to cartAn enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” –NPR.org
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s- Author: Bauer, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0735223602
- Language: English
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The Path of the Law
$12.95 Read moreThe Path of the Law is the single most important essay about law ever written. The perfect gift for anyone who ever entered law school, it defines the responsibilities of the legal profession from one… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Holmes, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1557091749
- Language: English
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Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
$19.95 Read moreSuicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying
- Author: Chan, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1642591246
- Language: English
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Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
$29.95 Read moreAn anthology of more than 60 articles documenting the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities t… [more below]
- Author: Charney, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0942961099
- Language: English
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The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?
$17.00 Read moreIn 1917 the working class and peasantry of Russia carried out one of the most deep-going revolutions in history. Yet within ten years a political counterrevolution was under way. Workers and peasants … [more below]
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0873482263
- Language: English
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Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
$29.99 Read moreA dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.
In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in oppo- Author: Delalande, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420105
- Language: English
