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  • Haunted by Slavery

    by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

    A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.

  • Digging Our Own Graves

    by Barbara Ellen Smith

    This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community 's struggle against the deadly black lung disease.

  • Dying for an iPhone

    by Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai, et al.

    A harrowing look lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.

  • The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II

    Edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters

    Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.

     

  • The Package King

    by Joe Allen

    An engaging look behind the curtain of one of America's most important companies.

  • Tramps and Trade Union Travelers

    by Kim Moody

    A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.

  • The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I

    Edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters

    An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs.

  • Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith

    This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.

  • Women and the American Labor Movement

    by Philip S. Foner

    A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Class War, USA

    by Brandon Weber
    An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

  • Striking to Survive

    by Fan Shigang

    In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones...

  • Class Struggle and the Color Line

    by Paul Heideman
    A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

  • Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981

    by Philip S. Foner
    A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

  • On New Terrain

    by Kim Moody
    An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US.

  • Black Liberation and the American Dream

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc
    Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.

  • Class Action

    by The Caucus of Rank and File Educators CORE and Jacobin Magazine
    Tens of thousands of ordinary people are willing to take action to defend the right to a public education.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

  • Disposable Domestics

    by Grace Chang
    This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

  • Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization

    Edited by Kim Scipes
    Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.

  • China on Strike

    Edited by Eli Friedman, Zhongjin Li, et al.
    Through first person accounts, this book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.

  • Poor Workers' Unions

    by Vanessa Tait
    Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

  • A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of the often neglected laboring majority.

  • Bananeras

    by Dana Frank
    Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.