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This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings

The most powerful force in the world isn't billionaires or governments. It's working people who decide to act together.

Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II

The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period. In the popular imagination, World War II is perceived as the last great moment of national consensus, when the United States was united around the collective purpose of battling a clear enemy whose aim…

Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement

In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago, including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the critical…

Working-Class Girls Don’t Become Artists: Looking at Art and Class

Working-Class Studies pioneer Janet Zandy profiles nine artists whose work “aligns with the history and living conditions of working-class people”: Kathe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa, Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin, Mark Rogovin, Jens S. Jensen, Ralph Fasanella, and Raymond Mason.

Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions

Organized crime figures and their minions honeycombed unions while leadership instituted nepotism, salary padding, and other practices that undermined the well-being of the rank and file. But in New York City, groups of union members and their legal allies waged a years-long struggle against corruption and for better working conditions.

Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members. The International Socialist Club, founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and…

Handbook For The Revolution: Building A More Perfect Union For The 21st Century

Railsong

A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the heartwarming story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India. In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the…

Warrior: Learning to Fight Back from the Angriest Man in the Labor Movement

Warrior tells the story of one of the most brutal labor battles of the Covid era: a small, militant healthcare union taking on powerful nursing-home chains and the state of Connecticut itself, on behalf of low-paid, largely Black and brown certified nursing assistants who bore the deadliest costs of the pandemic.

Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights

In the post-World War II years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the interplay among Mexican migrants, Mexican Americans, and white Americans eventually produced a vibrant immigrant-oriented activist movement inspired by larger struggles for civil and human rights.

Les finances du syndicalisme / The Finances of Trade Unionism

Since the 1980s, trade unions in France have faced a paradoxical situation: their membership plummeted at the very moment the government guaranteed them unprecedented financial support. Since then, the image of unions living off the state has become widespread.

The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026

The Future in Our Past tells the remarkable story of Britain’s only ever General Strike on its centenary. It is an on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraordinary days.

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry

As tech bosses align with the political right, workers across Silicon Valley organize against military contracts, sexism, layoffs, and employer control. Drawing on campaigns at Google, Kickstarter, Twitter, and elsewhere, JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine trace the rise of the tech worker movement, its victories and limits, and the backlash that made work more…

Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951

Born in colonial Malawi, Clements Kadalie dramatically rose to global prominence as general secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU) during the 1920s. A famed orator, journalist and trade union organiser, Kadalie electrified huge meetings with his call for economic freedom and all-in mass organisation, eclipsing…

Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage’s book, Shifting Gears, explores these dynamics in the Canadian labour movement by focusing on autoworkers. While it may be tempting to think that a book about autoworkers has little relevance for academic staff associations, there are lessons here for all of us.

화물연대 20년사 2002~2022 / 20-Year History of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union (2002–2022)

The 20-Year History of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity traces the formation and development of Korea’s organized truck drivers’ movement from 2002 to 2022. The book documents how cargo workers, facing neoliberal globalization and precarious employment, united to build a powerful national organization and halt logistics to demand survival rights and labor…

21세기 노동의 귀환 / The Return of Labor in the 21st Century

The Return of Labor in the 21st Century examines the contemporary crisis of labor in South Korea amid growing polarization between regular and irregular workers, large and small firms, and generations. Cho argues that anti-labor government policies and the collapse of social dialogue have intensified this crisis.

그리운 5·18투사 김성애·로사리아 / Beloved 5·18 Fighter Kim Sung-Ae (Rosaria): A Pioneer of the Gwangju Women’s Labor Movement and Participant in the May 18 Uprising

Kim Seong-ae was a pioneering labor activist in Gwangju and a key participant in the May 18 Democratic Uprising of 1980. She played an important role in building solidarity between workers and students, including organizing support for protesting university students.

투쟁의 역사, 성찰의 기록 / A history of struggle, a record of reflection

Reflecting on 40 Years of the Korean Labor Movement: Not Just Victories, But Also Failures and Mistakes This book examines the practical direction of the Korean labor movement and the political and ideological stances it has developed. The ideology and practice of the labor movement have directly shaped its form.

긴 투쟁, 귀한 삶 / A Long Struggle, a Valuable Life: 50 Years of Women Workers’ Struggle at Dongil Textile

Even in such a Korea, there was undoubtedly a time of labor activism. And paradoxically, it was a time when workers' rights were most brutally trampled.

걷고 보니 역사였네 / As I walked, I realized it was history.

Author Yang Gyu-heon began his career in local labor unions and grew into a labor activist. He served as chairman of the Korean Federation of Trade Unions (KFTU), and has since dedicated himself to the irregular workers' movement and working-class politics.

퇴사 대신 노조 만들기 / Don’t Quit — Organize a Union

However, if you were to throw such a book at someone just starting out in a union, they might hesitate to jump right in. High-level resolutions can wait.

History of Resistance to Discrimination by Koreans Living in Japan: Focusing on the Labor Movement in the 1920s and 1930s / 1920~30년대 일본 거주 조선인의 노동운동과 차별 저항사

This book examines the social movements undertaken by Koreans who migrated to Japan from the Korean Peninsula to seek employment or study before August 1945, resisting discrimination there, focusing on the labor movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In August 1945, just before the end of World War II, the population of Koreans living in Japan¹⁾ was…

울산 노동운동사 / History of the Ulsan Labor Movement

Volume 1 broadly describes the labor movement before industrialization, including the Japanese colonial period; the labor movement during the industrialization period after liberation and before the 1987 Labor Struggle; the period of the 1987 Labor Struggle; and the labor movement during the neoliberal era of the mid-1990s. Furthermore, separate chapters…

노가다가 아닌 노동자로 삽니다 / Living as a Worker, Not a Day Laborer

"Strictly crack down on the rule of law until the dry force is completely eradicated." After the remarks at the State Council on February 21, 2023, the National Police Agency, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the conservative media joined forces to push…

금형사상공 나의 삶 나의 꿈 ‘노동자 정갑득’의 노동운동 역정과 시대의 회고록 / Mold Industry, My Life, My Dream: A Memoir of the Labor Movement and the Times

Former Chairman Jeong joined the mold department of Hyundai Motor Company in 1984, went on a hunger strike to protest dismissal in 1988, was arrested in 1992 for his struggle for profit distribution, led the self-immolation protest in memory of martyr Yang Bong-su in 1995, served as the 6th chairman of the Hyundai Motor Company labor union in 1995, lost…

사회운동과 역사주기 / Social Movements and Historical Cycles

Social Movements and Historical Cycles is a comprehensive sociological study of Korean social movements from the April 19 Revolution to the present. Drawing on more than 600 pages of analysis, Cho Dae-yeop traces recurring patterns, ruptures, and transformations in collective action.

노동운동과 지식인: 역사와 현대의 대화 / The Labor Movement and Intellectuals: A Dialogue Between History and the Present

This book explores the complex relationship between the labor movement and intellectuals through a dialogue between historical experience and contemporary realities. It examines how intellectuals have engaged with labor struggles, social movements, and political participation, and reflects on their roles and responsibilities in confronting social…

만국의 노동자여 글을 쓰자 / Workers of the World, Let’s Write

The book documents the lived experiences of workers through firsthand narratives, showing how labor is shaped by exploitation, precarity, and resistance. It treats writing not as literature in the narrow sense, but as a form of labor and political action.