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  • 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.

  • The Long Deep Grudge

    by Toni Gilpin

    A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American heartland.

  • 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.

  • The Class Strikes Back

    Edited by Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft

    The Class Strikes Back examines case studies of twenty-first-century workers’ struggles from both the Global North and South, highlighting the stories of workers fighting to organize and join democratic and independent unions.

  • 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...

  • Politics of Precarity

    Edited by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup
    A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

  • The Poverty of Work

    by David Van Arsdale
    This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

  • 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.

  • The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • 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.

  • Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

    by Martyn Ives
    In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.

  • 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.