Books and films

Andra vågen / The Second Wave

In Gräfenhausen, Germany, an Uzbek truck driver refuses to drive on. In Sundbyberg, an elevator crashes to the ground.

Bageriet i Paradiset / The Bakery in Paradise: strong together at work

Frances Tuuloskorpi has worked in bread factories, laundries and commercial kitchens for four decades. At Bagarn, she was the chairman of the food workers' club for a long time.

Den sista milen / The last mile: about the invisible workers of e-commerce and the hidden price of fast packages.

E-commerce is breaking records, and behind every package delivered directly to your door is an invisible army of gig workers. In The Last Mile, Julia Lindblom examines the Swedish delivery companies that promise fossil-free, record-breaking deliveries - but at the expense of those doing the work.

Faraos egna arbetare / Pharaoh's Own Workers: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings

In the Valley of the Kings – the legendary burial place of the pharaohs – there was not only death. There was also life.

Fra klassekamp til landssvik / From class struggle to treason

The great shift in the labor movement's struggle against the interwar economic crisis, unemployment, and fascism is often dated to 1933, with Martin Tranmæl as the father of the change in strategy. What is not so well known is the role of the trade union movement.

Frontalkrock: Teslastrejken och kampen om framtiden / Head-on collision: The Tesla strike and the fight for the future

On October 27, 2023, the IF Metall union will begin the world's first and so far only strike against Tesla - a head-on collision between the richest man on the planet and the Swedish model. Fourteen unions in four countries, from dock workers and electricians to postmen and cleaners, will soon join in.

Los colmillos del lince / The lynx's fangs

Lisbeth Salander and her niece Svala seem to have a knack for attracting trouble: Svala is now part of an activist group opposing the reopening of a mine. The conflict is at a stalemate until a journalist investigating the issue is murdered.

Teamsters Metropolis

In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers—especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing—locking in hourly pay that bought the patio…

Temps de trajet

Jessica Lopes and Charl Vinz give voice to those whose daily commutes reflect the inequalities of everyday life. A socially engaged project, blending field research, visual storytelling, and reflections on how our mobile lives are shaped.

The Underground Sea

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger’s archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today.

Under angrep - slik motarbeides fagbevegelsen / Under attack - this is how the trade union movement is opposed

The Norwegian model provides a predictable and organized working life, and appears to be stable. But something is about to happen.In recent years, we have seen several examples of the trade union movement being actively opposed.LO describes "aggressive union crushing" as part of "a new development that threatens to turn back the clock many decades in…

Vad hände med arbetarklassen? Om svek, makt och ojämlikhet i Sverige diskuterar / What happened to the working class?

In "What Happened to the Working Class?" (Arkiv Publishing), sociologist Johan Alfonsson has written a vital book that shows in an educational and vivid way that a majority of Swedes still belong to the working class. This is supported by both statistically substantiated analyses and personal stories

Vanligt folk : den svenska arbetarrörelsens historia / Ordinary People: The History of the Swedish Labor Movement

At the end of the 19th century, people began to organize in the workplace. They talked to each other and agreed on common demands.

Vi kan styra oss själva / We can govern ourselves

Why does democracy end when we go to work? When Patrik Witkowsky, founder of the Center for Employee Ownership and Documentary Filmmakers, began to delve into the issue of economic democracy, he discovered a blind spot in the Swedish debate.

No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia

No Power Greater is the compelling story of the acts of rebellion and solidarity that have shaped Australia's past and shows that unions are far from history.

Pesawat Anda Delay / Your Plane Is Delayed

Prahara in the Parau Valley: A Novel of Coal Miners’ Struggle /Prahara di Lembah Parau: Sebuah novel perjuangan buruh tambang batu bara

Archam Alie, a university student, sets out to study firsthand how a coal mining company operates. His journey takes him to the Parau Valley, where he begins working at a mining camp owned by the Ambillin Coal Mining Company.

Serikat Buruh 1945–1948: Menduduki Stasiun, Menguasai Perkebunan, Menjalankan Pabrik / Trade Unions 1945–1948: Occupying Railway Stations, Taking Over Plantations, Running Factories

This book offers an in-depth study of labor unions in Java during the critical years of 1945–1948, examining how workers organized independently to take control of railway stations, plantations, and factories in the aftermath of Indonesian independence. Challenging state-centered interpretations of postcolonial labor politics, Jafar Suryomenggolo…

Strikers, Strikes: A Study of Agency and Its Networks in West Java, 1952 / Pemogok, Pemogokan: Studi Agensi dan Jaringannya di Jawa Barat Tahun 1952

The book “Strikers, Strikes: A Study of Agency and Its Networks in West Java, 1952” offers important lessons for many people, especially workers and the government. The two realities in Indonesia mentioned above are reflected in this book.

A Crisis at a Dead End? On the Future of Greek Trade Unionism / Κρίση αδιεξόδου; Για το μέλλον του ελληνικού συνδικαλισμού

The book is concise (158 pages), yet at the same time remarkably rich in content: it describes and explains in an inclusive way the harsh reality we are experiencing, doing so in a manner that also creates the conditions for rational intervention—an element which, as I often say, is the defining characteristic of a genuinely scientific perspective. In…

Artificial Intelligence for Effective Union Leaders: Another Story That Will Fascinate Your Brother-in-Law

is Artificial intelligence already here: in our phones, our cars, our homes… and also in the workplace, which union representatives have to defend every day. This manual aims to explain, rigorously but without technical jargon, what AI really means and how it can affect union activity, collective bargaining, and life in the workplace.

Brigate negre / Black Brigades

Marco Gabbas's new book, "Brigate negre" (Guasila: Editziones arkiviu bibrioteca "T. Serra", 2025), is published.

Carniti e Berlinguer / Carniti and Berlinguer: Two Lefts Face Off. The Clash Over the Escalator in the 1980s. Genoa, Turin, and Milan

Salvatore Vento's historical-sociological research analyzes the crisis in labor relations in the 1980s through a careful reconstruction of the key events that characterized it, particularly in Genoa, Turin, and Milan: the solidarity fund, the 1983 Scotti agreement, the dramatic division of 1984, and the referendum on the sliding wage scale. This central…

Conspiring Against Oblivion

This book is many things, but above all it is an exercise in memory that blends fiction with a fictionalized biography of the generation that was thirty years old when Francisco Franco died. The narrator and protagonist is Luis, and the story begins when, five years before the end of the century, he reunites with Eduardo, his first cousin, after twenty…

Corso Italia 25 / Corso Italia 25 The CGIL told from the inside

The union and its complex relationships with politics, institutions, and business, revealed by an insider. This, in a nutshell, is the content of Corso Italia 25, a three-decade narrative written by those who have lived and worked in leading positions within the union.

Del campo a la trinchera Memorias del deporte obrero vasco / From the Field to the Trench: Memoirs of Basque Workers' Sport

At the beginning of the 20th century in Europe, sport ceased to be a form of entertainment exclusive to the bourgeoisie and became a key tool for the working class in its struggle for social transformation. More than just a recreational activity, it became a revolutionary instrument for generating class consciousness and promoting change.

El Poum. República, revolución y contrarrevolución / The POUM. Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

In 1935 the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification was founded, which would play a fundamental role at the beginning of the Civil War and the revolution.In 1935, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) was founded, which would play a fundamental role at the beginning of the Civil War and the revolution. Of the many dissident communist groups that…

Francisco Gómez del Castillo. Militante obrero / Francisco Gómez del Castillo. Militant worker, son and father of typographers

Francisco Gómez del Castillo, working-class activist, typesetter, son and father of typesetters

HUELGA: Entre la Justicia y la Tragedia / Strike: Between Justice and Tragedy

This book explores the impact of strikes, focusing on the economic hardships that Workers face tensions stemming from union favoritism and the challenges of image that affects business management. This story invites you to delve into the human stories behind the pickets, the stalled negotiations and the economic consequences.

La huelga más larga / The longest strike

April 12, 2025, marked the 45th anniversary of the longest strike in the recent history of the Spanish labor movement. The commemoration will take place with the presentation in Cerezo del Río Tirón (Burgos) of the book documenting this mobilization, written by Burgos-born journalist Manuel González, former president of the El País works council, and…