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Explore work redefining the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as marginal, to economic analysis from eminent thinkers, labor organizers, and political economists, as well as sweeping accounts of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom.

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SKU: 9781629637914

Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy

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.

$24.95

SKU: 9781629637624

Working-Class Heroes CD

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

$14.95

SKU: 9781629635767

Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society

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.

$19.95

SKU: 9781629635156

Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of Institutional Hope in Greece, What?

Editors: John Holloway, Katerina Nasioka, and Panagiotis Doulos
The essays in this collection reflect on the experience of the crisis in Greece and its political implications for the whole world.

$21.95

SKU: 9781629635101

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Richard A. Walker
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.

$26.95

SKU: 9781629633817

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society

Michael Albert
Practical Utopia is a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles for creating a desirable society.

$20.00

SKU: 9781629632322

Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area

Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff
Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People’s Food System of the 1970s.

$14.95

SKU: 9781629631486

Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

Editor: Jason W. Moore
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers a series of provocative essays on nature and power, humanity, and capitalism.

$21.95

SKU: 9781629630953

Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, Second Edition

Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective.

$19.95

SKU: 9781604869569

New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

Editor: Immanuel Ness
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.

$24.95

SKU: 9781604863406

Abolish Work: "Abolish Restaurants" Plus "Work, Community, Politics, War"

Prole.info
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.

$12.00

SKU: 9781604867473

Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

Peter Linebaugh
This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.

$24.95

SKU: 9781604866797

The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual

Editor: Strike Debt
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.

$16.95

SKU: 9781604865899

Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth

Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, and James Davis
Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding and impede our ability to transform the world.

$16.00

SKU: 9781604865301

The Housing Monster

Prole.info
The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it.

$15.95

SKU: 9781604863352

In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism

George Caffentzis
This collection of essays explores technology, globalization, war, and crisis to elucidate political concerns of the day and to contribute to contemporary anti-capitalist debate.

$19.95

SKU: 9781604864540

Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

Selma James
Spanning six decades, Selma James's work set a new political perspective for millions of unwaged women, redefining the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as marginal.

$20.00

SKU: 9781604864007

Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse To Action (DVD)

Michael Fox
Change we can believe in? Travel with Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker across the United States in 2008 and 2010 and hear the voices of the people impacted by the financial meltdown and its aftermath.

$19.95

SKU: 9781604863321

Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

David McNally
Analyzes the systemic crisis facing this neoliberal phase of capitalism and argues that far from having ended, the global meltdown has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence.

$17.00

SKU: 9781604863345

Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult

Editor: Sasha Lilley
A series of incisive conversations with some of the most eminent thinkers and political economists on the Left--including David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Noam Chomsky, and Tariq Ali.

$20.00

SKU: 9781604862126

In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives

Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo
In and Out of Crisis stands to be the enduring critique of the crisis and an indispensable springboard for a renewed Left.

$13.95

SKU: 9781604861044

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (DVD)

Naomi Klein
This riveting hour-long lecture and interview explains the ideas and research behind Naomi Klein's book that exposed the popular myth of the free market economy's peaceful global victory.

$19.95

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