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Haymarket Scrapbook: 25th Anniversary Edition - David Roediger (Editor) and Franklin Rosemont (Editor)
This book will be available in February! Preorder now and get 25% off the list price of $23.
Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many...
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Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present - Art Hazelwood (Editor)
Hobos to Street People offers a comparison of the culture and politics of homelessness as seen through artwork since the Great Depression. The book is based on the touring exhibition of the same name that first opened in early 2009-the time of the greatest economic downturn since the 1929 Stock Market Crash. As the numbers of people living in poverty continues to swell, this book looks to the past for...
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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back - Robert McChesney (Foreword by) and Michael D Yates (Editor)
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin's state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the ...
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Upon the Backs of Labour - Arthur Miller
Arthur J. Miller's essays, stories really, are firsthand accounts of a working person's life, in his own words, uncensored and unapologetic. For Arthur, expressing his thoughts in print is a form of direct action, an attempt to reclaim a piece of the history and culture of working people, so often presented by so-called authorities on labour. These stories will resonate with readers who will find currents of...
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Which Side Are You On?: The Story of the Song - George Ella Lyon and Christopher Cardinale (Illustrator)
Which Side Are You On? tells the story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big companies, who kept wages low and spent as little money on safety as possible. Miners lived in company hous...
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars - David Alan Corbin (Editor)
Telling the powerful story of the West Virginia coal mining rebellions of the early 20th century, this book collects material from the leaders, the miners, and the journalists sent to report on the 1912 and 1921 West Virginia mine wars—explosive examples of strikes and union battles. Featured in the text are articles, speeches, and discussions between union leaders such as Samuel Gompers, Frank Keeney,...
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology - Franklin Rosemont (Contributor) and Joyce Kornbluh (Editor)
Originally published in 1964 and long out-of-print, Kornbluh's Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. Besides the full text and illustrations of the original, this new and expanded edition includes 32 pages of additional material: a new introduction and updated bibliography by old-time Wobbly organizer and scholar Fred Thompson; an inform...
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"¡Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!": y 20 mitos más sobre la inmigración - Aviva Chomsky
Spanish edition of They Take Our Jobs!.

Aviva Chomsky desmantela veinte de las suposiciones y creencias más comunes subyacentes en afirmaciones como "no estoy contra la inmigración, sino contra la inmigración ilegal." A la vez desafia la desinformación utilizando una prosa clara y directa. Mientras politicos y expertos enardecen los resentimientos contra los inmigra...
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Solidarity Forever: An Oral History Of The IWW - Deborah Shaffer (Editor), Stewart Bird (Editor), and Dan Georgakas (Editor)
The standard of living for most working Americans was grim when the IWW was founded in 1905. Wages were low, housing squalid, civil liberties limited, safety regulations nonexistent, and job security tenuous. Employers routinely denied their workers the right to unionize, much less to strike or picket. Few major labor disputes ended without death playing a hand.

In Solidarity Forever, a score o...
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