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A lyrical, stirring portrait of the twentieth-century coal miners who fought, undaunted, for the right to unionize West Virginia, culminating in one of the largest labor uprisings in American history West Virginia, 1921. Coal is king, labor laws are practically nonexistent, and an unauthorized...

In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich and David Graeber, journalist Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein exposes the hidden authoritarianism of the American workplace—where employers hold near-total power, and workers navigate a daily landscape of surveillance, silencing, and control—arguing that work...

From leading contributors to Jacobin magazine, a sweeping vision for a better world and concrete steps to get there, from expansive social welfare guarantees to worker-managed firms to a new culture of innovation. Socialism, the pundits insist, is at best a noble delusion. Good in...

Discover the gripping labor history of how ordinary workers fought brutal conditions to win the modern weekend. Perfect for your daily commute, this inspiring historical narrative transports you from nineteenth-century coal mines to today's high-tech gig platforms. Experience the David versus...

Dive into the gripping history of organized labor and the relentless underdog fight for essential workers' rights. Perfect for an educational commute, this thought-provoking narrative traces the epic clash between everyday employees and powerful industrial titans. Witness the dangerous...

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts and their ultimate failure.

From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a powerful call to arms on behalf of the working class “With candor and fierce moral clarity...

America is running out of people who know how to build what it needs. The Hands That Built This is a compact, urgent memoir-manifesto by K.A. Pierce—14 years as a carpenter and ironworker and nearly two decades as a construction-safety professional—that argues trades must be first-choice careers, not Plan B.

Neste livro, Rayane Freitas nos convida a refletir sobre as relações de trabalho nos ambientes gastronômicos, desnaturalizando práticas que perpetuam desigualdades raciais, de gênero e de classe. A cozinha, tradicionalmente ocupada por trabalhadores e trabalhadoras racializados, carrega marcas históricas do trabalho escravizado e precarizado — um espaço onde a desumanização ainda é uma realidade.

Nevin Shetty's powerful and skillfully woven debut, Second Chance Economics, makes a data-driven case for a new economic engine, as told through the crisis of mass incarceration and the millions of underemployed justice-impacted Americans. In the United States, an astounding 77 million Americans have a criminal record. It is a systemic crisis with profound economic consequences, creating lifelong collateral consequences not only for individuals but for the national economy.

The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. “André Santana's performance succinctly conveys the spirit of this audiobook about modern-day organizing and unionizing.”...

Behind the little red barns dotting the landscape and decorating so many of the products we consume is a dangerous threat. This groundbreaking investigation exposes the powerful forces at work to hide the harms of industrial agriculture, its outsize role in the climate crisis, and its links to the global rise of fascism.

We’re standing on the edge of the biggest turnover the trades have ever seen. 1 in 4 people in the trades are retiring. Some reports suggest that for every 7 tradespeople who leave, only 1 enters the workforce. When knowledge leaves the site, it’s gone for good—unless we build systems to keep it. This is the conversation we’ve needed in the trades for years. Workers are retiring, and owners are closing businesses, taking a world of experience with them. Who is remaining to pick up the torch?

Erfolg hat, wer vertraut und kooperiert Fußballteams sind erfolgreicher, wenn jeder Spieler zusätzliche Laufwege in Kauf nimmt, um Fehler anderer auszubügeln. Forscherteams bringen ihre Projekte eher zu?einem guten Ende, wenn alle Beteiligten einander vertrauen. Kooperationen sind...

You can tell a great deal about the modern world by turning an everyday object over in your hands and reading the small print. A phone case, a kettle, a child’s toy, a set of headphones, a pack of socks, a kitchen timer, a car part, a rechargeable torch, a cable, a cheap drill, a Christmas decoration, a novelty mug, a watch strap, a hairdryer. The range is so ordinary that it becomes invisible. We barely register it anymore.

In Sweatshop Capital, Beth Robinson examines the brutal sweatshop labor conditions that produced American consumer goods from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. Arguing that sweatshop labor is a persistent feature of capitalism, she shows how manufacturers used both their influence in government and their mobility to sidestep US labor laws, maximize profits, and perpetuate abuses.

Voters Aren't Imagining Things. Politics Suck. For decades, politicians promised prosperity, growth, and opportunity- Washington failed to deliver and voters are angry. And they're right to be angry. Since 1979, an hour of work buys 19% less, and 'tax cuts' resulted in families paying $5,000 more, not less in taxes.

في هذا الكتاب، يتتبع الصحفي سيمون ستولزوف كيف أصبح العمل يهيمن على حياتنا، ولماذا نجد صعوبة في الانفصال عنه.

The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country. Michael Ansara was on the front lines. In this fascinating memoir, he traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the Civil Rights Movement to the ten-year struggle to end the war in Vietnam, with its sit-ins, marches, confrontations, and antiwar riots.

Capitalism isn’t inevitable, scientific, or natural—it’s a relatively young system that can be replaced. We live in a world where cuts to social programs are deemed necessary, unemployment is considered natural, and rising living costs are accepted as normal. We’re told that change...