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  • On New Terrain

    by Kim Moody
    An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US.

  • Revolutionary Teamsters

    by Bryan D. Palmer
    Engaging and well researched, Revolutionary Teamsters is the story of a strike that sparked the labor upsurge of the 1930s

  • Lessons for Our Struggle

    by Frances Fox Piven
    The healthy growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement depends on a proper understanding of past struggles.

  • Politics of Precarity

    Edited by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup
    A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

  • Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization

    Edited by Kim Scipes
    Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

  • Subterranean Fire

    by Sharon Smith
    This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.

  • Always on Strike

    by Arnold Stead
    A history of the Industrial Workers of the World's golden years as lived by one of its guiding lights.

  • Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

    by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
    Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.

  • Autoworkers Under the Gun

    by Gregg Shotwell
    In an industry under constant attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American Dream.

  • Poor Workers' Unions

    by Vanessa Tait
    Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

  • The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • The Poverty of Work

    by David Van Arsdale
    This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

  • Justice in Everyday Life

    Edited by Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn’s book on the way justice really works in the U.S