Labor Studies

Anton Pannekoek • Edited by Robyn K. Winters
Pannekoek’s council communist ideas encourage individual thought rather than submission to dead-end traditions.

Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle and Iain McIntyre
This wickedly funny anthology of Riebe’s writings and comics is a treasure trove of radical 20th-century art.

It is Right To Rebel is an exciting and thought provoking new double LP from Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore and friends. The 15 tracks are mostly rooted in the folk music tradition and lyrically deals with the themes of awareness and uprising.

Edited by Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, and Janis Luna • Foreword by Molly Smith
An intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers.

John Womack Jr. • Edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek

This book provides rational, radical, experience-based perspectives to a new generation that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class.

Jon Melrod
This inspiring tale recounts Jon Melrod's thirteen-year journey to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors.

Ted Glick
21st Century Revolution was written based upon the author's 53 years of continuous involvement in the movement for fundamental, justice grounded, political, social, economic and cultural change--revolution.

Mitch Troutman
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania.

Karl Marx
Marx's fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state.

Working Class History
An enduring repository for your thoughts, dreams, and battle plans for collective action.

Angry Workers
What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy?

Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.

Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.

Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.

Working Class History • Foreword by Noam Chomsky
This handbook of grassroots movements, curated by the popular Working Class History project, features many hidden histories and untold stories, reinforced with inspiring images.

Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.

Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.

David Ranney
David Ranney’s vivid memoir describes his work experiences between 1976 and 1982 in the factories of southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana.

Jenny Brown
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.

Freedom Press
A provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.

Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.

Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.

Alana Apfel
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.