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  • 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

  • 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 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.

  • Radical Unionism

    by Ralph Darlington
    Though often seen as opposing ideas, Darlington engagingly traces the entwined legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Rank and File

    by Alice and Staughton Lynd
    The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s—1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

  • 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.

  • Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

    by Martyn Ives
    In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.

  • 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

  • A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of the often neglected laboring majority.

  • Sin Patrón

    by lavaca collective
    The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.

  • 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.

  • Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith

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

  • The Turbulent Years

    by Irving Bernstein
    The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians.

  • Women and the American Labor Movement

    by Philip S. Foner

    A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

  • Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

    by Dana Frank
    The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.