In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich and David Graeber, journalist Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein exposes the hidden authorit......more

This new book provides an appraisal of gender pay equality, assessing advances and barriers to further progress through ......more

Can trade unions be reconceptualised as human rights organisations? This groundbreaking study explores the untapped pote......more

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In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focus......more

In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focus......more

Exposes the hidden risks faced by Canada’s mobile workers and calls for stronger protections and fair access to compensa......more

In 1776, Britain is at war with American rebels. One man sets out to bring the empire down from within. Released on the ......more

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Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in syste......more

Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in syste......more

Take Over the City provides the first spatial analysis of Italian Operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 197......more

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted our relationship with work. After years of lockdown, and with many employees......more

A fresh, accessible history of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary - telling a story of working-class community the......more

Power Plants offers an unflinching assessment of society’s underappreciated but growing addiction to the industrial burn......more

States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor--and why this process ......more

States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor--and why this process ......more

Midnight, 30 April 1926. Coalowners lock out a million miners. In response, British workers across the country down thei......more

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and auto......more

How capitalism steals our time and our labour, and how we can fight back. An extra 15 minutes work here, another 20 minu......more

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississipp......more

The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Ke......more

In April 2006, 42 Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the Canada Line Skytrain. They thought the......more

Founded in 1919, the Federated Press (FP) collected, compiled, and distributed news to America’s labor and radical newsp......more

Recasting American history from the vantage point of black women workers, whose struggles for justice point the way to e......more

Originally published in 1961 and based on primary sources, this book examines inter-union disputes and trade union histo......more

There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is large......more

In the post-WWII years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the......more

In the post-WWII years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the......more

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the histo......more

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Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry, and thereby......more

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization. From the eighteent......more

An excavation of populist movements in the US and their associated religious tropes. In this work, author Colin Bossen a......more

The essential introduction to anarchist theory of the labor struggle. In 1937, under the shadow of rising authoritariani......more

During the 1970s and 80s mine closure and wind-down became increasingly common in a number of countries. As mining commu......more

Originally published in 1984, this book provides the first full account of the lives and aspirations of those who have w......more

Between 1934 and 1939 a wave of violent strikes and riots swept across the Caribbean. Roger Seifert explores how British......more

A practical guide to understanding workplace health and safety, addressing modern challenges and promoting safer, more e......more

From her start as one of the youngest activists in US history, Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies’ Gar......more

From her start as one of the youngest activists in US history, Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies’ Gar......more

Emphasizes the power of the working class in Canada’s politics. Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politici......more

Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis of the development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have be......more

Wage work was supposed to "kill the Indian and save the man," or so thought Richard Pratt and other late nineteenth-cent......more

Wage work was supposed to "kill the Indian and save the man," or so thought Richard Pratt and other late nineteenth-cent......more

The world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Mar......more

The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India’s digital political economy, and the relationship betwe......more

When Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Assembly Plant opened in 2012, the United Auto Workers were excited by the golden opportun......more

A collection of essays exploring the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same co......more

Originally published in 1962, this is an important work in the history of Trade Unionism. The period covered by this vol......more

Originally published in 1955, this book examines the social background of the community and the organization at gypsum p......more

For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models s......more

For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models s......more

Originally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to rel......more

Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings tog......more

Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses th......more

Originally published in 1982 and now reissued with a new Preface by Stephen Wood the contributors of this book discuss t......more

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a ......more

Britain experienced the impact of recession more immediately and sharply; over one million factory jobs were lost. Origi......more

Originally published in 1923, this volume collected an analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during th......more

First Published in 1943, American Labour presents a comprehensive story of the American trade union movement. The book d......more

From Popular Front to Cold War tells the story of the International Workers Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930......more

From Popular Front to Cold War tells the story of the International Workers Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930......more

This book considers the role of both wages and unions in economic theory, asking whether wages are merely a mechanical o......more

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"That’s enough!" I cried, interrupting him. "You are an anarchist! It’s talk like that that’s undermining the discipline......more

How do discourses of "skill" and "training" shape immigrant integration, national imaginary, and skilled labour policies......more

Building Sites addresses the urgent need to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design......more

Building Sites addresses the urgent need to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design......more

This book promotes a critical and analytical view of what the emerging new Cold War and climate change mitigation mean f......more

One of the main challenges in labour relations in Europe is the ongoing decentralisation of collective bargaining from n......more

During the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Irish American John Diamond and African American William Henry Lane, k......more

"They will go on robbing you, your children, and your children’s children, unless you wake up, unless you become daring ......more

Exploring the emergence of this vast Soviet system of concentration camps in long-term perspective, this book aims to in......more

The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusio......more