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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.

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ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
It's been far too long since we carried this venerable journal,and it's a pleasure to have it back. Venerable it may be, but it remains perhaps the most vital, engaging, relevant and informative anarchist magazine today. The essays and articles pertain more than most, both theoretically, and practically, not just to 'everyday' concerns, but those that ought to concern anyone interested in putting the movemen...
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Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism - Rudolf Rocker
Another version of Anarcho-Syndicalism, with a new introduction by Nicolas Walter.
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Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry - Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry helps individuals navigate the world of egalitarian, directly democratic groups. From their experiences working with egalitarian and anarchist organizations, Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer offer a street-level view of how social relationships and power work. Lessons are learned and hindsight is 20/20, and Come Hell or High Wat...
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Anarcho-Syndicalism in the 20th Century - V.V. Damier
Anarcho-syndicalism, a theory and practice of working class revolution, was developed not by scholars working in libraries but by the workers themselves. The anarcho-syndicalist movement of the 20th century extended to all the industrialized countries of the world and even agricultural regions. This was not a fringe phenomenon but involved millions of workers. Mainstream labor unions and social-democratic pa...
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Put To Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression - Nancy Rose
With unemployment surging to record levels and the economy in freefall, experts are looking to the Great Depression for lessons in stimulating job creation. Then, as now, the system was unable to provide the jobs and financial support desperately needed by millions of people. But then—in the 1930s—the state intervened to create massive employment programs that put people to work on socially usefu...
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Direct Action - Emile Pouget
Direct Action is the classic statement of revolutionary syndicalism. Against the slavery that is capitalism, Pouget proposes not faith in the go-betweens of parliament (or union leaderships!) but workers' own action. Action to win small victories, strengthening and inspiring the working class for the big one: the destruction of capitalism and rebuilding society from the bottom up.

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Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! - John Duda (Editor)
Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets, radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat—in 1909!

Published for the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of the World's famous free speech fights. Through newspaper article...
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Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home - Steve Early
Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past. The author has produced a provocative series of essays—an unusual exercise in "participatory labor journalism" useful to any reader concerned about social and economic justice. As workers struggle to survive and the labor ...
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All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? - Joel Berg
With the biting wit of Super Size Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eatlooks closely at the problem of hunger in the U.S. today—one in eight Americans is food insecure—and the reality that America is becoming a coun...
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