Labor & Industrial Relations
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and- Author: McCallum, Jamie K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619919
- Language: English
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Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to coun
- Author: Babson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363790
- Language: English
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
$22.99 Add to cartA “vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement”(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWill… [more below]
- Author: Ferriss, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005980
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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A Philosopher Looks at Work
$16.99 Add to cartIs work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical ref… [more below]
- Series: A Philosopher Looks at
- Author: Geuss, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1108930611
- Language: English
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
$23.99 Add to cart“Elements of Tara Westover’s Educated… The mill comes to represent something holy to [Eliese] because it is made not of steel but of people.”
One woman’s story of working
—New York Times Book Review- Author: Goldbach, Eliese Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250239419
- Language: English
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The Workers’ Way to Freedom: And Other Council Communist Writings
$24.95 Add to cartAnton Pannekoek (1873-1960), the Dutch astronomer and Marxist revolutionary, was a key theoretician of council communism–a Marxist alternative to both Leninism and Social Democracy that instead empha
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Pannekoek, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440088
- Language: English
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartIn August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiv… [more below]
- Author: McCartin, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325200
- Language: English
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On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$22.99 Add to cartAn oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners f- Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1952271096
- Language: English
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
$15.00 Add to cartHave you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a uni
- Author: Lynd, Staughton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1604864192
- Language: English
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were … [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0802124658
- Language: English
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Building More Effective Unions
$24.95 Add to cartEmployers have long turned to behavioral science for guidance on making their organizations more effective. Labor scholar Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should also take advantage of the valuabl
- Author: Clark, Paul F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0801475198
- Language: English
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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
$31.18 Add to cartManagement & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make- Author: Schor, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 520325052
- Language: English
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the … [more below]
- Author: Buhle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1844675254
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartHistory 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
