Labor Studies
Labor Studies
92 titles
Labor Notes
Running for Local Union Office
Labor Notes
This book draws from decades of experience of labor activists who have run for office. It covers topics like: how union elections work, building a campaign team, flyers, mailings, raising money, getting out the vote, and the law.
This book draws from decades of experience of labor activists who have run for office. It covers topics like: how union elections work, building a campaign team, flyers, mailings, raising money, getting out the vote, and the law.
$20.00
Books
Out of the Lab, Into the Streets: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California
Aleida García Aguirre, with Molly Vine and Patrick Dexter
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.
$25.95
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Labor Notes
The Legal Rights of Union Stewards - 7th Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
This book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights.
This book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights.
$20.00
Labor Notes
Just Cause - 3rd Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
Just cause is the keystone of the union contract, protecting members from unwarranted and excessive discipline. But until now many of its most important aspects have been restricted to arbitrators and labor professionals.
Just cause is the keystone of the union contract, protecting members from unwarranted and excessive discipline. But until now many of its most important aspects have been restricted to arbitrators and labor professionals.
$20.00
Labor Notes
No Contract, No Peace - 3rd Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
This book provides valuable guidance on working without a contract, mobilizing members, picketing, targeting outside businesses, unemployment benefits, unfair-labor-practice strikes, lockouts, and other related topics.
This book provides valuable guidance on working without a contract, mobilizing members, picketing, targeting outside businesses, unemployment benefits, unfair-labor-practice strikes, lockouts, and other related topics.
$20.00
Autonomedia
(Autonomedia) What Do We Need Bosses For? Toward Economic Democracy
Pete Dolack
This book analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis, dissecting the mounting inequalities of capitalism and theorizing how we might organize a better world.
This book analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis, dissecting the mounting inequalities of capitalism and theorizing how we might organize a better world.
$24.95
Common Notions
Comedy Against Work
Madeline Lane-McKinley
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” What does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” What does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?
$20.00
Other Comrades
Sick of it all! Work, Inquiry & Struggle in the NHS
Angry Workers
These essays show how workers in the NHS are fighting to improve patient care and working conditions, while also having an eye on creating a future of vastly improved health and healthcare for all in a post-capitalist world.
These essays show how workers in the NHS are fighting to improve patient care and working conditions, while also having an eye on creating a future of vastly improved health and healthcare for all in a post-capitalist world.
$20.00
Labor Notes
How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Labor Notes
The best 21st-century example of union transformation done right! Tenth Anniversary edition.
The best 21st-century example of union transformation done right! Tenth Anniversary edition.
$15.00
Common Notions
Family, Welfare, and the State - 2nd Ed.
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all?
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all?
$16.00
Labor Notes
How to Win Past Practice Grievances
Robert M. Schwartz
This book explains the powerful labor relations principle of past practice and whether to file for arbitration and/or filing labor board charges.
This book explains the powerful labor relations principle of past practice and whether to file for arbitration and/or filing labor board charges.
$13.00
Books
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
Working Class History • Foreword by Noam Chomsky
This handbook of grassroots movements, curated by the popular Working Class History project, features many hidden histories and untold stories, reinforced with inspiring images.
From $20.00
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Other Comrades
Class Power on Zero Hours
Angry Workers
What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?
What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?
$20.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner & Jane Slaughter
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
$15.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide STANDARD EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide EDUCATORS EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
The FMLA Handbook
Robert M. Schwartz
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
$20.00
Autonomedia
Caliban and the Witch
Silvia Federici
This is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. From the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the rationalization of social reproduction.
This is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. From the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the rationalization of social reproduction.
$19.95
Labor Notes
Democracy Is Power
Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
$15.00
Other Comrades
Memoirs Of A Wobbly
Henry E. McGuckin
This firsthand history tells the story of the unsung tens of thousands of militant working men and women who, in the 1910s, made the IWW one of the grandest labor organizations the world has ever seen.
This firsthand history tells the story of the unsung tens of thousands of militant working men and women who, in the 1910s, made the IWW one of the grandest labor organizations the world has ever seen.
$7.00
Labor Notes
Running for Local Union Office
Labor Notes
This book draws from decades of experience of labor activists who have run for office. It covers topics like: how union elections work, building a campaign team, flyers, mailings, raising money, getting out the vote, and the law.
This book draws from decades of experience of labor activists who have run for office. It covers topics like: how union elections work, building a campaign team, flyers, mailings, raising money, getting out the vote, and the law.
$20.00
Books
Out of the Lab, Into the Streets: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California
Aleida García Aguirre, with Molly Vine and Patrick Dexter
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.
$25.95
Labor Notes
The Legal Rights of Union Stewards - 7th Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
This book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights.
This book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights.
$20.00
Labor Notes
Just Cause - 3rd Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
Just cause is the keystone of the union contract, protecting members from unwarranted and excessive discipline. But until now many of its most important aspects have been restricted to arbitrators and labor professionals.
Just cause is the keystone of the union contract, protecting members from unwarranted and excessive discipline. But until now many of its most important aspects have been restricted to arbitrators and labor professionals.
$20.00
Labor Notes
No Contract, No Peace - 3rd Ed.
Robert M. Schwartz
This book provides valuable guidance on working without a contract, mobilizing members, picketing, targeting outside businesses, unemployment benefits, unfair-labor-practice strikes, lockouts, and other related topics.
This book provides valuable guidance on working without a contract, mobilizing members, picketing, targeting outside businesses, unemployment benefits, unfair-labor-practice strikes, lockouts, and other related topics.
$20.00
Autonomedia
(Autonomedia) What Do We Need Bosses For? Toward Economic Democracy
Pete Dolack
This book analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis, dissecting the mounting inequalities of capitalism and theorizing how we might organize a better world.
This book analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis, dissecting the mounting inequalities of capitalism and theorizing how we might organize a better world.
$24.95
Common Notions
Comedy Against Work
Madeline Lane-McKinley
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” What does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” What does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?
$20.00
Other Comrades
Sick of it all! Work, Inquiry & Struggle in the NHS
Angry Workers
These essays show how workers in the NHS are fighting to improve patient care and working conditions, while also having an eye on creating a future of vastly improved health and healthcare for all in a post-capitalist world.
These essays show how workers in the NHS are fighting to improve patient care and working conditions, while also having an eye on creating a future of vastly improved health and healthcare for all in a post-capitalist world.
$20.00
Labor Notes
How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Labor Notes
The best 21st-century example of union transformation done right! Tenth Anniversary edition.
The best 21st-century example of union transformation done right! Tenth Anniversary edition.
$15.00
Common Notions
Family, Welfare, and the State - 2nd Ed.
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all?
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all?
$16.00
Labor Notes
How to Win Past Practice Grievances
Robert M. Schwartz
This book explains the powerful labor relations principle of past practice and whether to file for arbitration and/or filing labor board charges.
This book explains the powerful labor relations principle of past practice and whether to file for arbitration and/or filing labor board charges.
$13.00
Books
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
Working Class History • Foreword by Noam Chomsky
This handbook of grassroots movements, curated by the popular Working Class History project, features many hidden histories and untold stories, reinforced with inspiring images.
From $20.00
Other Comrades
Class Power on Zero Hours
Angry Workers
What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?
What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?
$20.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner & Jane Slaughter
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
$15.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide STANDARD EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide EDUCATORS EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
The FMLA Handbook
Robert M. Schwartz
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
$20.00
Autonomedia
Caliban and the Witch
Silvia Federici
This is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. From the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the rationalization of social reproduction.
This is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. From the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the rationalization of social reproduction.
$19.95
Labor Notes
Democracy Is Power
Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
$15.00
Other Comrades
Memoirs Of A Wobbly
Henry E. McGuckin
This firsthand history tells the story of the unsung tens of thousands of militant working men and women who, in the 1910s, made the IWW one of the grandest labor organizations the world has ever seen.
This firsthand history tells the story of the unsung tens of thousands of militant working men and women who, in the 1910s, made the IWW one of the grandest labor organizations the world has ever seen.
$7.00