Labor & Industrial Relations
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The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
$19.95 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 Add to cartThe 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 Read moreMemphis 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
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
$27.50 Read moreA startling discovery–that job market success after college is largely random–forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college- Author: Streib, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829316
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThe reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II
Once America’s “arsenal of democracy,” Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of Amer- Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Sugrue, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162557
- Language: English
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The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto
$13.99 Add to cartCommunism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influent… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 01 1988
- ISBN10: 087975446X
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
$30.00 Add to cartIn a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resil… [more below]
- Author: Hamby, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0316299472
- Language: English
