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Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line

This is the story of the two lives of Phil Cohen. The first is about childhood in the mean streets of New York City and then his early life as a young adult as a gypsy cab driver in neighborhoods too dangerous for regular cabs, and eventually to managing a cheap hotel, where he helps the impoverished residents with law enforcement, health care, and welfare.

Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South

How the United Auto Workers achieved a landmark victory at Volkswagen's Chattanooga Assembly Plant When Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Assembly Plant opened in 2012, the United Auto Workers were excited by the golden opportunity to organize in the anti-union South, where their efforts had been routinely thwarted. However, it took ten years and several attempts…

Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter

This is a memoir of Appalachia, a region often stereotyped as “a place to escape from, where people are hateful, lazy, and bring tragedy upon themselves.” Beth Howard has a different story to tell, both in growing up there and in an unlooked for history of the place. Howard shares the emotional wounds her childhood left her with, but also realizes the…

The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It

Arindrajit Dube sets out to explain why workers at the bottom and in the middle have experienced wage stagnation in the last 40 years. And he discovers a series of labor market policies that have led to our K-shaped economy.

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…

Who Moves America

In an era of deepening inequality, the Teamsters stand on the brink of a historic strike. UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company, moving millions of packages across 200 countries and territories every day.

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…

Agregados obreros / Labor Attachés

The documentary explores the figure of the “labor attaché” as a diplomatic position that emerged during Perón’s first government in Argentina. This initiative created a cultural conflict by opening spaces in Argentine politics—such as the Foreign Ministry and international relations—to workers.

"Huelga en el fin del mundo

The historic metalworkers’ strike of May 2025: ten thousand workers brought production to a halt and stood their shifts in front of burning barrels to withstand nine degrees below zero. In those ten days that shook the island, they made it clear who truly operates the levers of the most powerful electronics hub in the country — and the southernmost in…

Semana Santa del 95

In the 1980s, the Continental factory arrived in Ushuaia, driven by the Industrial Promotion Law, transforming the city with the arrival of thousands of workers. In the 1990s, economic liberalization led to its closure, leaving the workers without jobs or severance pay.

Retazos de historia obrera

The film was born from a six-song album produced by Palo Pandolfo and blends history, music, and cinema. It is an audiovisual production that traces elements of Argentina’s labor history from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Power to Forge (Pouvoir oublier)

Quebec, spring 1972. The workers’ struggle is at its peak.

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.

The Thing to Be Done

A map of Europe is marked with numbers, their values rising from south to north, east to west – these are the gross minimum wages of each nation. Director Srđan Kovačević is committed to transparency.

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.