Books

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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

  3 posts

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  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

  11 posts

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  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

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

  10 posts

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  Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

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

  7 posts

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  Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist

  by Len McCluskey

  Why every worker should join a trade union

  5 posts

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  Revolting Prostitutes

  by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

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

  41 posts

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  Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

  by Steve Fraser

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

  5 posts

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  Workers and Capital

  by Mario Tronti

  The classic text of Italian workerism finally available in English

  16 posts

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  Riot. Strike. Riot

  by Joshua Clover

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

  53 posts

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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

  16 posts

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  Feminism for the 99%

  by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, et al.

  This is a manifesto for the 99 percent

  37 posts

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  Eugene V. Debs

  by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

  A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

  8 posts

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  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

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  Work

  by Andrea Komlosy

  Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

  6 posts

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  The Great Cowboy Strike

  by Mark A. Lause

  When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses

  3 posts

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  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

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  Underground America

  Edited by Peter Orner

  5 posts

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  Chasing the Harvest

  Edited by Gabriel Thompson

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

  4 posts

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  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

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  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