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Red Harbor: The Radical Roots of the Pacific Northwest Labor Movement

In Red Harbor, Aaron Goings resurrects the forgotten history of lumber workers in a bastion of labor radicalism, examining the conflict as workers faced down an alliance of employers, police, and violent anti-radicals, including the Ku Klux Klan. But he goes beyond these clashes to illuminate the vital roles of families, immigrants, and working-class…

Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights

This biography of Roy Reuther examines his tumultuous life, including the triumphs and tragedies in the labor and civil rights movements.

Shadow Ticket

Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case.

Solidarity Betrayed

Solidarity Betrayed reckons with the labor movement’s failures on sexual harassment. Ana Avendaño draws on decades of organizing experience to provide a compelling insider’s account of trade unions’ complicity, collusion, victim blaming, and lack of perpetrator accountability.

Stinkbug

In this wildly original and deeply unhinged story, Sinéad Stubbins turns her keen but empathetic eye on the lies we tell about ourselves in order to belong. Part anxious millennial fever dream, part searing workplace satire, this corporate gothic novel is perfect for fans of Yellowface, Nightbitch and Such a Fun Age.

Strike Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire

Strike While the Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt

This book unearths some of the biggest swings musicians, workers, and supporters have taken to co-create a popular culture of resistance.

Striking Ore: The Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Pilbara iron ore industry was a bastion of militant unionism – 'union power'. Today, it is almost completely un-unionised.

Such a Good Man

In these inventive and formally daring stories, Dustin M. Hoffman shines a light into the dark corners of American suburbia.

Teamsterland: Reports on America’s Most Iconic Union

The world's most iconic union?When Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Britain's largest union, Unite the Union, spoke to the delegates of the 2016 Teamster convention, he declared, "The Teamsters is the most iconic trade union on our planet and you should be proud." The delegates loved it and gave him a rapturous welcome.But, was iconic the best way…

The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country's first statewide teachers' strike.

The Art of Class War: Newspaper Cartoonists and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike

A new book sheds light on political cartoons from the bitter miners’ strike of the mid-1980s and includes around 130 cartoons. It is written by Nicholas Jones, who was the BBC’s industrial and senior political correspondent for over 20 years and has authored many books on UK politics and industrial relations.

The Power of Unity: Labor Unions and the Fight for Workers’ Rights

In 1935, the landmark National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed, greatly increasing the power of American workers. During and immediately after World War II, unions flourished, and income inequality fell to its lowest level since the Great Depression.

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance and, in a world marked by extreme wealth inequality, open racism, and political repression, chose instead to invest in a future where radical ideas such as working-class power, free speech, and equality could flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund…

The Rehabilitation of Tony Boyle: A Contextual History of the United Mine Workers of America

This book is an organizational history of the United Mine Workers of America and a record of the context of this history as it relates to the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. American coal miners were among the most exploited workers in the nation's history, subject to ferocious violence at the hands of employers and the state.

Those Who Travail and are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer

In a life laden with honors, Bill Gould has worked to lighten the burden of workers unjustly and illegally cut off from fully reaping the fruits of their labor.

Threads of labour Tapestry of an ex-industrial community

Charting a collaborative art-based project using carpet-making skills and the industrial heritage of the region, the book investigates how a cleaved ex-industrial community used arts methodologies as a cohesion strategy. Drawing on images from the company’s archives, the book mines the history of Firths Carpets Limited, a firm that carpeted interiors…

Transnational Working-Class Literatures Canons and Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This book addresses an urgent need for a study which brings together the national, transnational and international dimensions of working-class literatures.

Trouble! at Coal Creek

This gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War—one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings

Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining at a Critical Moment: Opportunities for Renewal or Continued Decline

Since the 1950s, union membership and collective bargaining in the United States have declined. Union density, the percentage of the workforce belonging to unions, peaked at 34.8% in 1954 and fell steadily thereafter.

U.S. V. Darby Lumber

The eight-hour day. The five-day work week.

We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

Eric Blanc shows that recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. Through digital tools and ambitious campaigns, young worker leaders are turning the labor movement back into a movement—and they're winning.

We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign

In the spring of 1969, hundreds of workers, all Black and mostly female, went on strike at Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital to protest racial discrimination, low wages, and the marginalization of their dignity. The movement began with an incident of wrongful termination in 1967 involving five Black women at Medical College Hospital…

Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions

An essential and timely guide to the changing landscape of the labor movement, from a veteran labor organizer “The best overview of the recent labor upsurge we have yet seen. T

"Work, give us work": Jacob Coxey and the Industrial Army Movement of 1894

In late March 1894, other "armies" of the unemployed mobilized on the Pacific Coast and in the Rocky Mountain states to begin their own pilgrimages to the nation's capital. Confronted with distances farther than those covered by European crusaders to the Holy Land, western marchers had to improvise.

20 ans d’Unia / 20 years of Unia: the strong voice of workers

Since its creation, Unia has become the largest trade union in Switzerland. Unia successfully fights for social justice, strong collective bargaining agreements, wage protection, and equality.

Aan deze kant van de rivier / On this side of the river

It's only a small plot of land, triangular in shape and bordered by the Adda River. But in 1877, it represented the future for Cristoforo Crespi.

A bas Biribi / Down with Biribi: Albert Aernoult and Émile Rousset, the "Dreyfus" affair of the workers 1909 - 1912

In pre-1914 France, the Aernoult-Rousset affair revealed the hellish conditions of the disciplinary battalions in Africa, where young, condemned workers suffered harassment, torture, and sometimes death. After Albert Aernoult died from beatings, soldier Émile Rousset dared to break the code of silence, but it was he who was condemned.

Algériens au travail, une histoire (post)coloniale / Algerians at work: a (post)colonial story: An investigation into immigrant workers in the automotive industry during the "Thirty Glorious Years" in France

Through the case of immigrant workers from Algeria, the aim here is to trace the history, to date little documented, of the (post)colonial condition in factory territory in the France of the "Thirty Glorious Years". Based on research conducted at the iconic Renault factory in Billancourt, this book shows how these colonial migrants came to embody the…

Bosse, tais-toi et crève / Work, shut up, and die: the fight of the century for our pensions

We are being lied to, again and again. The Arizona government is trying to pass off the dismantling of our pensions as inevitable.