Labour category: 1663 books
Rebel Voices
An IWW Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, were among the most well-respected and largest unions in the United States in the early 20th century. Having organized the first major automobile industry strike as well as major coalfield and transit workers strikes, the IWW...
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018
Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award
A...
Trotskyists on Trial
Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing...
A Country That Works
Getting America Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing...
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing...
Life Support
Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies have...
Victims of the Chilean Miracle
Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both...
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: French
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Une œuvre d’une actualité étonnante dans laquelle tous les partisans du dimanche aujourd’hui seront heureux de puiser des arguments, qu’ils soient fervents catholiques ou qu’ils appartiennent à la gauche radicale et athée.
The Right to Stay Home
How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States
People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely...
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.
Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through...
James Connolly, A Full Life
A Biography of Ireland’s Renowned Trade Unionist and Leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
‘Hasn’t it been a full life, Lillie, and isn’t this a good end?’, were James Connolly’s last words to his wife in Dublin Castle in the early hours of 12 May 1916 just before his execution for his part in leading the Easter Rising.
James Connolly, the son of Irish immigrants, was born...
by Sean Matgamna
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
There is a quickening of life on the left. But, politically, the left is still very weak and disoriented. This book traces the turns and realignments imprinted on this left over many decades by the ascendancy of Stalinism and by the post-Stalinist global reshufflings after 1989-9. Independent working-class...
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.”...
Equality for Contingent Faculty
Overcoming the Two-Tier System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "From...