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Black Workers for Justice: A History of Southern Labor and Black Liberation During the New Nadir

Forthcoming: February 9, 2027. Labor and the reinvention of the Black freedom struggle Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ) is a Black-led workers' organization based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, that emerged from the struggles of Black Southern workers in the post–civil rights era.

We Workers: Participatory Journalism, Class, and Citizenship in China, 1937-1953

We Workers is the first book-length study examining the Chinese communist press and its relationship to the growing labor movement. New China Daily, a leading Chinese Communist Party newspaper during the Second Sino-Japanese War, preserves a unique record of workers' stories through columns dedicated to readers' letters.

Cláudio José Ribeiro... Coutinho ou Agenor: Entrevista com um comunista

Presented in interview format, the book is based on eighteen hours of conversation with Cláudio José Ribeiro, a man who was active in the Brazilian Communist Party and fought for a better world for everyone.

Involution: A Worker Inquiry Amid China’s Youth Unemployment Wave

China’s hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Through conversations with young workers from across China, the Gonglao Collective examines involution — the ever-intensifying pressure of a labour market in which rewards decline while demands and competition grow.

The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower

The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class examines China’s transformation from a poor agrarian society into a global economic powerhouse through the history of land, labour and class. Teemu Ruskola traces how the Chinese working class was formed after 1949 and then unmade by the reforms that began in the late 1970s.

Assistante sociale : une sentinelle de l’ombre

Myriam Gaillard recounts a professional life spent serving others. Beginning as a memoir, the book traces the origins of her vocation, her training and, above all, forty years of professional experience in two very different settings: generalist area-based social work and a centre for early medical and social intervention.

Tout est à nous ! C’est l’heure des travailleurs et des travailleuses

Sophie Binet argues for restoring the central place of work in political life as a response to rising inequality and the danger of an alliance between capital and the far right. The publisher presents the book as an intervention against a system in which wealth determines whose interests prevail.

Every Acre, Every Factory

It is getting hot in our antechamber of barbarism, so much is clear. It's time to agree on a new political strategy.

Gewerkschaft, ja bitte!

This handbook, now regarded as a standard reference work, supports both experienced and newly elected works council members, shop stewards, and youth and trainee representatives in their work within the workplace. In the updated fifth edition of this standard work, the basic structure remains unchanged: the first part develops the foundations of…

How We Will Fight for a Future on This Planet: A Handbook for the Fearless

A political handbook about linking working-class self-organization with the climate movement. Drawing on twenty-five years of documenting social movements, strikes, class struggles and climate activism, Johanna Schellhagen argues that appeals to the state are not enough.

AnyMart / チルド

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror. Sakai – played by Japanese star Shota Sometani (Himizu, MIFF 2012) – is an assistant manager at the Tokyo convenience store managed by his father (Masahiko Nishimura), both men deadened by the rigid…

Autobiography of Cotton

An intimate fictionalization, Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation,

Kamrat Bamse / Comrade Teddy Bear

Class struggle, liberation movements and evil directors. But also fascist coups d'état, famine and blue-yellow slave trade.

Caught in Neutral: Labour, global production networks and the green transition in South Africa’s auto industry

This book examines South Africa’s automotive industry and shows how inconsistent industrial policy has undermined a worker-centred just transition. Alex M.

공공의료 공공돌봄을 향해 / Toward Public Healthcare and Public Care

The Medical Solidarity Division emerged from unions that left the Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union in 2004 in pursuit of a new industrial union movement. Following the Hospital Trade Union Council and the Medical Solidarity Union, it was launched on September 1, 2006.

No Name Ceuta

No Name Ceuta is a documentary about migrants trapped at Ceuta, one of the most militarised and least visible borders in southern Europe. Filmed in Ceuta in January and February 2026, it follows migrants and activists from No Name Kitchen and shows the consequences of European border-control policies: barriers to international protection, administrative…

Underground Resistances from Latin America / Social Movements, Trade Unionism and Anarchism(s) between Progressive Disillusionment and the Far Right

An overview of the debates shaping Latin American social movements. With autonomy and independence from political parties, this book brings together different realities that share a desire for a new era grounded in social justice, feminism, community activism, land defense, opposition to punitive politics, and life.

AKP, Sendikacılık ve Siyaset

During AKP rule, trade unionism in Turkey was forced to transform, caught between neoliberalism and conservatism. This book examines the government's interventions in the sphere of labor and the position of the trade union movement in this process, while discussing what kind of trade unionism is needed for social justice and a strong labor struggle.

Merhaba Ankara: Büyük Öğretmen Yürüyüşü / Hello Ankara: The Great Teachers' March

Merhaba Ankara: The Great Teachers' March follows the nine-day journey of private-sector teachers organized by Özel Sektör Öğretmenleri Sendikası as they march to Ankara to demand their rights. Filmed from within the action, it documents collective organizing, obstacles along the route, and protests near parliament against insecure work and exploitation…

Robert Steele - The Forgotten Miner: Leadership and Sacrifice among the Lanarkshire Miner

This well-researched book not only enhances our knowledge of the coalmining communities of central Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century, but makes a valuable contribution to labour history in general by focussing on someone who, while never a full-time union official, and who remained a working miner throughout his career, was…

An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class

Whatever happened to the working class? A compelling new social history of Britain since 1945 From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class has been pushed from the center of political life to its margins, though not without a fight.

Britain’s Revolutionary Summer: The General Strike of 1926

Midnight, 30 April 1926. Mineowners lock out a million miners.

Global Workers and Entangled Crises: Biographical and Relational Approaches to Resilience

The early 2020s brought a torrent of disruptions – COVID-19, war-amplified inflation and migration blockages – that reshaped global labour in deeply unequal ways. This edited collection offers a variety of novel biographical and relational approaches to studying resilience that all centre on workers’ lived experiences, histories and networks.

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the context of the emerging multipolar world order and the urgent climate crisis. The book argues that the era of the purely national left is over.

Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft

Matthew Cole traces the history and present of wage theft, from unpaid overtime and unlawful deductions to algorithmic exploitation in the platform economy. Drawing on workers’ experiences and global evidence, the book argues that wage theft is not an accidental violation but a structural feature of capitalist property relations, and makes the case for…

A Spirit of Revolt: Conrado Alvillar and the Rank-and-File Wobblies of the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike

“A deeply researched, innovative, and passionate history of the rank-and-file activists behind one of the most important labor strikes of America’s ‘roaring twenties.’ Gonzales unearths the lives and struggles of a generation of long-forgotten men and women in Colorado’s coal fields who revolted against intolerable conditions to demand a better world.”…

Capturing Labor: A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest

A collection of essays grappling with the many, often overlooked, forms of unfree labor in the West. When Americans think of unfree labor—coerced, extracted from workers unable to freely enter and exit contracts—what comes to mind is Black slavery and peonage in the South.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

A vivid history of the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular socialist and anti-Zionist movement that was once one of the most influential Jewish political forces in Eastern Europe. Through portraits of forgotten poets, revolutionaries, organizers and rebels — including the author’s great-grandfather’s story — Molly Crabapple follows the Bund through the Russian…

Labor Unions and American Mass Politics

A comprehensive exploration of how labor unions, broadly conceived, shape party loyalties in the American mass public. How and why do labor unions matter for American mass party loyalties, specifically party identification and vote choice?

Matewan: Blood and Coal

One of the latest releases from Hardball Press, Matewan is a new fictionalized take on the events of Matewan, West Virginia, in the coal wars of the 1920s—one of America’s most explosive labor conflicts, where, the publisher writes, “courage is measured in sacrifice, and history is written in blood.” Corley, a history teacher, says of the book, based on…