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Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa
Edited by Leo Zeilig • “This fascinating book fills a vacuum that has weakened the believers in Marxist resistance in Africa,” writes Joseph Iranola Akinlaja, general secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Nigeria. This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent. ISBN: 978-1-931859-68-4
Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida’s Farmworkers for Justice
Silvia Giagnoni • In Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the world, farmworkers organized themselves into the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and launched a nationwide campaign that forced McDonald’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell to recognize their demands for workers’ rights. ISBN: 978-1-60846-093-9
The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit-Downs
Sidney Lens • The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by bloody and revolutionary battles. From the first famous martyrs, the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coalfields in the nineteenth century, to the crucial workers’ victory of the 1930s in the sit-down strikes against General Motors, it has a history of pitched battles that frequently erupted into open warfare. ISBN: 978-1-931859-70-7
The Lean Years and The Turbulent Years
Histories of the American Worker, 1920–1941
Irving Bernstein, introduction by Frances Fox Piven • This two-volume history compiles a meticulous study of the lives and struggles of workers from the “roaring” twenties to the Great Depression of the thirties. Bernstein’s account relates both the trajectory from industrialization to mass strike waves for industrial unionism and the ingredients for the shifting consciousness that made millions fight back. Lean Years ISBN: 978-1-60846-063-2; Turbulent Years ISBN: 978-1-60846-064-9
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
Paul Mason • The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America’s Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop the First World War. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. ISBN: 978-1-60846-070-0
The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy
Donny Gluckstein • When Parisian workers established the world’s first workers’ democracy, there were no blueprints for the society they might build. This detailed study examines their brief experiment in collective social, economic, and political equality, with attention to the historic problems of the commune, critical debates over its implications, and the lingering inspiration of the glimpse of a better world its history provides. ISBN: 978-1-60846-118-9
The Political Economy of Racism
Melvin Leiman • “An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States” (Science & Society). Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it. ISBN: 978-1-60846-066-3
Revolution in Seattle: A Memoir
Harvey O’Connor • Celebrated labor journalist Harvey O’Connor captures the courage and defiance of workers on the march against the carnage of the First World War and the dramatic inequality that marked the era. In particular, O’Connor’s remembrances of the Seattle General Strike of 1919—the first in the nation—showcase his abiding faith in the potential of working people to transform society, and illuminate the vibrancy and militancy of the early American labor movement. ISBN: 978-1-931859-74-5
Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories
lavaca collective, foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis • The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization. Sin Patrón lets the workers themselves tell their stories. ISBN: 978-1-931859-43-1
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Sharon Smith • Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, from the weekend to health care to the right to even form a union. Smith shows how a return to the fighting traditions of US labor history, with their emphasis on rank-and-file strategies for change, can turn around the modern labor movement. ISBN: 978-1-931859-23-3