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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914420955 | ISBN 10: 1914420950
On the 45th anniversary of its initial publication in Swedish, Sven Lindqvist’s polemic on history, politics and power is finally available in English for the first time.
This volume brings Dig Where You Stand, Sven Lindqvist’s classic t ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745339030 | ISBN 10: 0745339034
'Fascinating' - Raquel Varela, labour historianÂ
The Labour Revolt that swept Britain in the early 20th century was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experi ... more
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£5.95 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780993224737 | ISBN 10: 0993224733
We Are No Dirty Shirkers is the fourth publication by the Mary Quaile Club. The common theme to the articles is women challenging power and authority.
Mary Quaile, Manchester Irish Trade Unionist, was one of the most well-known trade union ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804290149 | ISBN 10: 1804290149
The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s.
In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national b ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739656300 | ISBN 10: 173965630x
In an inspirational struggle that began in September 1995 and lasted for two years and four months, 500 Liverpool dockers fought for their jobs after being sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. Liverpool Dockers: History of Rebellion and Betray ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745340869 | ISBN 10: 0745340865
Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' struggle is being reborn from below. By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers' inquiry, workers an ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638003 | ISBN 10: 1629638005
Jeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story revolts by working class people in America. This hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it, encompassing the repeated repression of workers' rebellions ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608469215 | ISBN 10: 1608469212
A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.
This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women’s struggle for freedom, equality and unity in th ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780954207755 | ISBN 10: 0954207750
Dockers set the pace for all the gains in wages and conditions during the 1940s and 50s. Most of their battles, against their bosses, the government and sometimes their own union, were led by rank and file committees. Harry Constable was one of their ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609895 | ISBN 10: 1783609893
The first fully comprehensive comparison of the Latin American ‘turn to the left’, the Middle East and North African ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements of Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of u ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910448946 | ISBN 10: 191044894x
Grunwick was the strike that changed the rules of the game.
It changed the way the unions thought about race, about their own core values, and about the best way to organise among the new immigrant communities coming to Britain in the 1970s. ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465286 | ISBN 10: 1608465284
Illegal. Un-American. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain.
Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465354 | ISBN 10: 1608465357
Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and sh ... more
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£16.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849352079 | ISBN 10: 1849352070
In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labour to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608197132 | ISBN 10: 1608197131
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262574 | ISBN 10: 1780262574
Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusio ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447305897 | ISBN 10: 1447305892
The abuse of Asian workers in the oil-rich Gulf countries, the trafficking of undocumented latinos at the US border, the exploitation of African sans papiers in France and the attacks on Sub-Saharan farmhands by the mob in Italy. All these events sho ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683255 | ISBN 10: 1781683255
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century — and perhaps for the last forty years — and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781421410180 | ISBN 10: 1421410184
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargain ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173065 | ISBN 10: 1847173063
The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form.
On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, Jame ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781604867466 | ISBN 10: 1604867469
The world today has no shortage of economic crises — or politicians and pundits who claim to have the vision that will get us out of the Great Recession. For 25 years, the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has endured the brutal vagar ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847173614 | ISBN 10: 1847173616
The Dublin 1913 lockout is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history, between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers. Central to the dispute was the workers' right to unionise. The book outlines the p ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780850366594 | ISBN 10: 0850366593
In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd.
Th ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780851247960 | ISBN 10: 0851247962
In January 1986, some 5,500 workers employed by four of Britain's national newspapers were sacked. The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times were all owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International Limited, and the bitter industrial dis ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608460939 | ISBN 10: 1608460932
Migrant farmworkers in the United States are routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, impoverished conditions. In response, farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, the “tomato capital of the world,” formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Aga ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781441114266 | ISBN 10: 1441114262
In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books.
Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women ... more
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£18.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780801474316 | ISBN 10: 0801474310
Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Se ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192625 | ISBN 10: 1905192622
Workplace occupations are back. Groups of workers have seized control of their factories to fight closures and job losses in the face of the economic crisis. Occupations, more than strikes or demonstrations, raise the question of who controls the wor ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192649 | ISBN 10: 1905192649
"For two months in the autumn of 1910 hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, who were largely illiterate, who worked 54-hour weeks f ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604863000 | ISBN 10: 1604863005
In the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.
The uprisings of coal mi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848840591 | ISBN 10: 1848840594
If you want to find out about the life of an ancestor who was active in the labour movement or was a union member, this handbook will be a fascinating introduction to the subject. Mark Crail provides a graphic and authoritative account of the history ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781874181453 | ISBN 10: 1874181454
Preston was no ordinary town during the nineteenth century. While king cotton reigned supreme throughout Lancashire, the underlying ills associated with this industry were very often highlighted particularly starkly there. Child labour, shocking work ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781842778524 | ISBN 10: 1842778528
From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are used for forced labour. Low wages are u ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099492887 | ISBN 10: 0099492881
A Chinese woman pushes her way to the front of a hiring queue outside a factory in Shenzhen...A Bolivian miner, without light or ventilation, crawls deep inside a deserted mine...A group of Somali cleaners files into an investment bank in London's Ca ... more
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£25.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781861348333 | ISBN 10: 1861348339
There are an increasing number of studies devoted to an examination of New Labour's social policies. However, thus far there has been little in the way of substantive discussion of opposition to and conflict around key elements of New Labour's agenda ... more
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£15.95 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780850365702 | ISBN 10: 0850365708
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Between 1902 and 1905 the Scottish community of Ballachulish, near Glencoe, was shaken to its foundations by pro ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954207731 | ISBN 10: 0954207734
Des Warren was one of the pickets jailed at Shrewsbury following the national building workers strike of 1972. His trial on conspiracy charges was part of the attempt by the Tory government of the day to destroy basic trade union rights. The incoming ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780745326030 | ISBN 10: 074532603x
This is an intimate account of Iranian working people; an account of the threat facing Iran from our own country; an assessment on the consequences for Iran and her internal struggles of external invasion; and an insider's account of Iran's people, i ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745315294 | ISBN 10: 0745315291
Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union mo ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908829 | ISBN 10: 0091908825
Nick Warren was just like any other boy growing up in the 70s, he liked playing out and being a little sod, and loved his younger brother and sister. Then one day when he was six, his mother kissed him goodbye to go shopping and never came back.
N ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844675258 | ISBN 10: 1844675254
The Industrial Workers of the World - according to its members and devotees the "Greatest Thing On Earth", but according to employers and labor's conservatives a menace to society - is exactly a century old in 2005. How could a movement that in its ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780907123309 | ISBN 10: 0907123309
This is the autobiography of a remarkable man and a window into a long-forgotten world. Rudolf Rocker was a German radical who became the leader of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists in London. He introduced this mass movement to world literatu ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780717806249 | ISBN 10: 0717806243
This is the story of May Day - a holiday born in the USA a hundred years ago and since 1890 celebrated by working people the world over. In this short history, Philip Foner clarifies the dramatic origins of May Day and recounts many highlights of May ... more
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£15.99 paperback (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780862325718 | ISBN 10: 0862325714
This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of Latin America's oldest - and for many years its largest - working class. After outlining its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization, the authors ... more
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