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Red State Revolt

by Eric Blanc

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics
Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, et al.

This is a manifesto for the 99 percent

3 posts
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

1 post
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

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

14 posts

Opening the Gates

by Donald Reid

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

9 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

3 posts
The Great Cowboy Strike

by Mark A. Lause

When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses

2 posts
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

9 posts

Underground America

Edited by Peter Orner

5 posts
Chasing the Harvest

Edited by Gabriel Thompson

Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States

3 posts
The Death and Life of American Labor

by Stanley Aronowitz

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor

10 posts
Value

Edited by Diane Elson
This influential collection of essays focuses on the elusive concept of “value,” and aims to answer the question “Why is Marx’s theory of value so...
7 posts

The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

Groundbreaking studies of Britain’s first major working-class movement

6 posts
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

by Jane McAlevey

“Demonstrates that good organizers can in fact succeed.”– Frances Fox Piven

17 posts
The Enemy Within

by Seumas Milne

“The definitive account of the strike—the best book on the Thatcher era.” – Naomi Klein

13 posts
Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

“An important contribution to debates around sex and work ... deserves to be read.” – Nina Power

38 posts

Strike for America

by Micah Uetricht
“Brilliant political analysis." – The Nation
12 posts
Masks of Anarchy

by Michael Demson
A graphic history of a poem that became aninspiration to immigrant workers in New York
13 posts
Scattered Sand

by Hsiao-Hung Pai

Firsthand report on the largest migration in human history

20 posts
Trampling Out the Vintage

by Frank Bardacke

A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers

16 posts

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