Labor Studies

Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.

Editors: Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith
This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.

Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.

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.

Staughton Lynd · Illustrator: Mike Konopacki
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.

Sam Mayfield, Green Valley Media, and E.W. Stetson
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.

Editor: I.W.W.
A Radical Labor Classic!

Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Morgan
Seventy-seven songs, with words and sheet music, of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution. Compiled from several generations in America, and from around the world.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.

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.

The James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band
Far from the archival preservation of embalmed corpses, the inspired performance of a rocking band turns the timeless lyrics of James Connolly into timely manifestos for today’s young rebels.

James Connolly • Editor: Mat Callahan
Songs of Freedom is a celebration of the life and work of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary socialist. It is at once a collection of stirring revolutionary songs and a vital history.

Editor: Eric Larson
Through interviews and essays the activists that built Jobs with Justice show us why their economic vision matters after 25 years of solidarity organizing that has resulted in local, national, and international victories.

Peter Linebaugh
Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

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.

John Curl
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines American cooperative movements for social change that have been all but erased from collective memory.

Editors: Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, and Eric Shragge
What are the ways forward for organizing for social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis?

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.

Editor: David Alan Corbin
The dramatic stories of union battles as seen by the leaders, rank-and-file participants, and the journalists who came to West Virginia to cover them.

Editor: Joyce L. Kornbluh
This new edition of a classic is by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore.

Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross
A guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy.