Labor Studies

Aleida García Aguirre, with Molly Vine and Patrick Dexter
The story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy.

Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.

Jarrod Shanahan
A decade of American society coming apart.

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Robert M. Schwartz
Just cause is the keystone of the union contract, protecting members from unwarranted and excessive discipline. But until now many of its most important aspects have been restricted to arbitrators and labor professionals.

Tom Juravich, Olivia Geho, and Andrew Gorry
After the labor movement faded away in the lives of most Americans, organizing is back!

prole.info
A scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it.

Robert M. Schwartz
This book provides valuable guidance on working without a contract, mobilizing members, picketing, targeting outside businesses, unemployment benefits, unfair-labor-practice strikes, lockouts, and other related topics.

Raymond Tyler • Summer McClinton
This graphic interpretation of people’s history features unforgettable main characters while also displaying the diverse rank-and-file workers who stood in solidarity during this struggle.

Henry E. McGuckin
This firsthand history tells the story of the unsung tens of thousands of militant working men and women who, in the 1910s, made the IWW one of the grandest labor organizations the world has ever seen.

Starvation ArmyThis is the music of Direct Action! Music to fan the flames of discontent!

Michael Zweig
A book for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.

Pete Dolack
This book analyzes past and present efforts to establish systems of economic democracy on a national or society-wide basis, dissecting the mounting inequalities of capitalism and theorizing how we might organize a better world.

Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all?

Madeline Lane-McKinley
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” What does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?

David Van Deusen • Foreword by Kim Kelly • Introduction by Steve Early
Insurgent Labor tracks the trials and tribulations of bringing a formerly stagnant labor union into national relevance with an unapologetically left-wing agenda.

Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner & Jane Slaughter
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!

Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.

Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.

Labor Notes
The best 21st-century example of union transformation done right! Tenth Anniversary edition.

Robert M. Schwartz
This book is a primer on your rights as a steward and walks you through all the basics from the National Labor Relations Act to the grievance process to Weingarten rights.

Robert M. Schwartz
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

Robert M. Schwartz
This book explains the powerful labor relations principle of past practice and whether to file for arbitration and/or filing labor board charges.

Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.

Michael Zweig
A book for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.