Labor Studies
Labor Studies
92 titles
Books
Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.
$17.00
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Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All
Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.
$20.00
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Second Edition
Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.
From $24.95
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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Second Edition
Silvia Federici
This volume collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it.
This volume collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it.
From $17.95
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Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
From $28.95
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Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
From $24.95
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Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
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Books
Working-Class Heroes CD
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
Books
Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out
David Ranney
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.
$15.00
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Jenny Brown
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.
$19.95
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Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society
Freedom Press
A provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.
A provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.
$19.95
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On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941
Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
$27.95
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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
$19.95
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Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Editors: Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith
This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.
This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.
$20.00
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Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities
Alana Apfel
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.
$15.95
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The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
$34.95
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
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Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, Second Edition
Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective.
Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective.
$5.00
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Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd · Illustrator: Mike Konopacki
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.
$14.95
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DVDs
Wisconsin Rising (DVD)
Sam Mayfield, Green Valley Media, and E.W. Stetson
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.
From $14.95
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Spoken Word/Music CDs
Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook (CD)
Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.
$39.95
Books
Abolish Work: "Abolish Restaurants" Plus "Work, Community, Politics, War"
Prole.info
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.
$12.00
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Books
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
Editor: Immanuel Ness
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.
$24.95
Options
Books
Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.
$17.00
Books
Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All
Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.
$20.00
Books
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Second Edition
Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.
From $24.95
Books
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Second Edition
Silvia Federici
This volume collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it.
This volume collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it.
From $17.95
Books
Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
From $28.95
Books
Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
From $24.95
Books
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
Books
Working-Class Heroes CD
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
Books
Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out
David Ranney
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.
$15.00
Books
Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Jenny Brown
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.
$19.95
Books
Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society
Freedom Press
A provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.
A provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.
$19.95
Books
On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941
Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
$27.95
Books
Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
$19.95
Books
Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Editors: Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith
This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.
This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.
$20.00
Books
Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities
Alana Apfel
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.
$15.95
Books
The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.
$34.95
Books
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95
Books
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
Books
Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, Second Edition
Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective.
Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective.
$5.00
Books
Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd · Illustrator: Mike Konopacki
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.
$14.95
DVDs
Wisconsin Rising (DVD)
Sam Mayfield, Green Valley Media, and E.W. Stetson
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.
From $14.95
Spoken Word/Music CDs
Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook (CD)
Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.
$39.95
Books
Abolish Work: "Abolish Restaurants" Plus "Work, Community, Politics, War"
Prole.info
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.
$12.00
Books
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
Editor: Immanuel Ness
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.
$24.95