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Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism

by Shelton Stromquist

How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic—and what the lessons are for today

1 post
A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice

by Eileen Turnbull

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s

1 post
Proletarian China

Edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace

A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China
Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav
A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market
18 posts

The Rising of the Women

by Meredith Tax

How working-class women changed the course of history

1 post
Work Without the Worker

by Phil Jones

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work

14 posts
Overtime

by Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge

Work isn’t working

15 posts
Breaking Things at Work

by Gavin Mueller

An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future.

15 posts

Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

19 posts
Care Manifesto

by The Care Collective

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?

17 posts
Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist

by Len McCluskey

Why every worker should join a trade union

11 posts
Revolting Prostitutes

by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead

50 posts

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

6 posts
Workers and Capital

by Mario Tronti

The classic text of Italian workerism finally available in English

16 posts
Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

55 posts
Red State Revolt

by Eric Blanc

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics

16 posts

Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, et al.

This is a manifesto for the 99 percent

58 posts
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

8 posts
Opening the Gates

by Donald Reid

How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968

11 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

9 posts

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