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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

7 posts
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

12 posts
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

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

12 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?

8 posts

Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist

by Len McCluskey

Why every worker should join a trade union

6 posts
Revolting Prostitutes

by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

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

47 posts
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

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

5 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

53 posts
Red State Revolt

by Eric Blanc

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

15 posts
Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, et al.

This is a manifesto for the 99 percent

44 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

10 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

7 posts
The Great Cowboy Strike

by Mark A. Lause

When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses

3 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

16 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

4 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

15 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...
8 posts

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