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Savoir commencer une grève. Résistances ouvrières à la désindustrialisation dans la France contemporaine / Knowing How to Start a Strike: Workers' Resistance to Deindustrialization in Contemporary France

Romain Castellesi offers us an unprecedented history of deindustrialization in France. A history marked by the silences and erasures that affect the working class; a history made up of resistances and struggles waged to defend themselves against the closure of factories and to preserve their dignity; a history still in progress, which continues to…

Seis de Julho / July 6th: The Oil Workers' Strike of 1983

The book "July 6th: The 1983 Oil Workers' Strike ," by Carlos Lucena, is an analysis of the oil workers' strike that occurred on July 6, 1983, in Paulínia (SP) and Mataripe (BA). The work describes this event as one of the main strike movements of the 1980s.

Se tenir debout / Standing Tall: A Century of Struggles Against Suffering at Work

Recovering from professional burnout and regaining physical and mental health is a process that can take years. Getting back on your feet and standing tall also means, within the workplace, daring to speak up and resisting deteriorating working conditions.

The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

What would a gay sociologist write about his mother, a former working-class woman? Furthermore, what if that mother, despite being a longtime union member and a leader in strikes and rallies, in her later years despised anything associated with the left and voted for a far-right party?

Go South": Union Organising in the 21st Century

Are the trade unions back? After the strike wave of 2022 and 2023 the unions are in a better place - more relevant, more active and more popular.

O pobre de direita: A vingança dos bastardos

WHY DO THE POOR VOTE FOR THE RIGHT? 📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.

Strajk. Historia buntów pracowniczych

More than 150 years have passed since the first strike, which took place in 1872 at the Cegielski factory—a symbol and an exceptional site not only on the map of Greater Poland but of the entire country. The Poznań enterprise, which has operated continuously for 178 years, serves for Jarosław Urbański as a point of reference and inspiration for…

Takový socialismus nechceme!: Kultura protestu průmyslového dělnictva v českých zemích v letech 1945-1968

Did strikes exist during the period of state socialism in Czechoslovakia? Did industrial workers agree with government policy at the time?

Tapis rouge et lutte des classes / Une autre histoire du Festival de Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet, its parade of stars and the crackle of camera flashes… Who could imagine that behind the glittering façade of the most prestigious event in the world of cinema lies a completely different story? To understand it, we must go back to the very origins of the Festival.

Klassensolidarität, Autonomie, Selbstorganisation: Erfahrungen und Reflexionen von unten

Striking delivery drivers in Brazil, organized logistics workers in Italy, grassroots groups in Switzerland and Germany, covert protests by Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, an occupation in Greece resisting touristification, burning construction sites, and collective expropriations in the United States: across the world and in very different ways,…

हड़ताल कल होगी The Strike Will Be Tomorrow

Mauritian writer Abhimanyu Anat has established a distinct place for himself in modern Hindi fiction, and this novel adds a new dimension to his literary personality. The protagonist of the novel, Amit, is sensitive and contemplative, a leader of workers, deeply disturbed by the internal and external divide between the rich and the poor.

শতবর্ষে চা-শ্রমিক আন্দোলন ডেডলাইন ২০ মে ১৯২১ A Century of the Tea Workers’ Movement: Deadline 20 May 1921

Shreyasi Gangopadhyay. May 20, 1921 marks the tea workers’ movement in Bangladesh, and the legacy of the struggle of plantation workers and coolies remains just as significant even after a century.

This Work Is Not Life: Class Struggle in the 21st Century — The GKN Case / Questo lavoro non è vita. La lotta di classe nel XXI secolo. Il caso GKN

On 9 July 2021, the 422 employees of GKN in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, a factory producing drive shafts for the automotive industry, received an email announcing collective-dismissal proceedings due to the closure of the business. The workers refused to remain resigned: they immediately went to the factory gates, guarded by private security, and managed…

Workers and the State. Workers’ Struggles and Reform of the Capitalist State from the October Revolution to the New Deal / Operai e Stato. Lotte operaie e riforma dello Stato capitalistico tra Rivoluzione d’Ottobre e New Deal

First published in the early 1970s, Operai e Stato is a classic of radical and workerist thought that shaped a generation of political activists. Its essays examine class composition, political organization, Keynes and the New Deal, and workers’ struggles in Britain and the United States, connecting European and American labor history.

Una alianza que transformó el país / An alliance that transformed the country: The unions and early Peronism

An eruption, a magical and mysterious moment, the emergence of an undercurrent that swept everything away. A leader who interpreted and shaped history to his liking.

عمّال على طريق يناير: قراءة لثلاث معارك عمّالية مع نشرات الحركة Workers on the Road to January: A Reading of Three Labour Struggles with the Movement’s Bulletins

In his book Workers on the Road to January: A Reading of Three Labour Struggles with the Movement’s Bulletins, published by Dar Al-Maraya, Hisham Fouad offers a panoramic view from inside the workers’ operational room. The book is not a dry academic study; rather, it is a “living documentation” and “close-up observations of three pivotal labour struggles…

Judul Buku: Berpencar, Bergerak!: Pergolakan Perlawanan Harian Buruh di Delapan Sektor Industri

In the book “Berpencar, Bergerak”, Sudiyanti recounts her experience of resistance in an electronics factory that produces earphones. In great detail, Sudiyanti explains how she, together with several comrades who were members of a factory-level labor union, transformed workers’ complaints about poor working conditions into concrete demands directed at…

The Labor Movement and Its Role in Society and Politics / ขบวนการแรงงานกับบทบาททางสังคมและการเมือง

This book is a collection of academic articles based on the author’s research work, reflecting her role as a key scholar closely connected to the Thai labor movement over the past three decades. The volume brings together three major articles: The History of the Thai Labor Movement Toward a Decade of Fragmentation (1977–1987) Trade Unions as Social…

Por qué el obrero vota a la derecha: La deriva suicida de la izquierda / Why the worker votes for the right: The suicidal drift of the left

What's happening to the left today? Why does it seem more concerned with issues like environmentalism (a false environmentalism) or a feminism that is anything but equality, instead of with the problems faced by an increasingly suffocated working class?

Help Wanted

Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive.

People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal

At a moment in which our everyday practice of democracy has atrophied, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened our capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change. Marshall Ganz is one of the world’s leading authorities on democratic…

Jusqu'au bout. Vieillir et résister dans le monde ouvrier

Bruno, Christian, Clairette, Christiane, and Viviane are former Peugeot employees from Sochaux-Montbéliard. Battered by factory work, these retirees place union activism and friendly solidarity at the heart of their lives.

Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile

During Chile’s transition to neoliberalism, Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship established a body of pro-business labor legislation that later democratic governments found difficult to reform. Pablo Pérez Ahumada examines why, focusing on collective labor law and on the unequal capacity of workers and employers to influence public policy.

Sindikati kroz izazove prošlosti i budućnosti / Unions through the Challenges of the Past and Future

The book "Unions through the Challenges of the Past and Future" recording the testimonies of trade unionists about the transition in Serbia, about strikes and bad privatizations, with details that are little known to the public. The authors of the book are journalist Jelena Ranković and long-time leader of the union of the "Zastava Arms" factory and the…

Community and Change: Practical Trade Union Work that Creates Engagement / Fellesskap og forandring: Praktisk fagforeningsarbeid som skaper engasjement

Active and engaged shop stewards and union staff are the key to a strong labour movement that can achieve results in the workplace, in national negotiations, and in politics. But to create this kind of engagement, the labour movement must devote more effort to building strong communities and good relationships in workplaces—developing what are often…

Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Students, and the Indonesian Labor Movement Buruh dan Intelektual: LSM, Mahasiswa, dan Gerakan Buruh Indonesia

This book examines the resurgence of Indonesia’s independent labor movement in the 1990s after decades of repression, focusing on the contested role played by middle-class activists, particularly students and labor NGOs. As trade unions re-emerged following the fall of the New Order regime in 1998, non-worker intellectuals continued to shape labor…

အရှေ့ကနေဝန်းထွက်သည့်ပမာ / Example of a circle coming out of the east

This is a long Burmese novel by writer and politician Thein Pe Myint, which tells the historical background of the Burmese independence movement from 1934 to 1942. The background is formed by movements involving various layers, such as the Kamaryut labor movement, the Yangon poor movement, the university student movement, the peasant anti-landlord…

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work

This 724-page Handbook develops a global and intersectional approach to the political economy of work, labour relations and workers. It examines exploitation, class formation, capital accumulation, migration, digital and reproductive labour, trade unionism, workers’ resistance and social movements.

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.

Muiterij / Mutiny How our world is tilting

Mutiny' captures the excitement of world events today. In Europe, life is in turmoil even after the pandemic.