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    Labor and Monopoly Capital

    This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital...
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    Chainsaw Operator's Manual
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    Chainsaw Operator's Manual

    The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate...
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    I, Millennial
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    I, Millennial

    ‘A damn hilarious read.’ Nazeem Hussain‘A true barbarian.’ Andrew BoltOur world is in chaos lol. And no, Australian Millennials, it’s not your imagination: things are especially f**ked for us.Millions of Baby Boomers got beach houses, free education,...
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    Dreamwork
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    Dreamwork

    Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know...
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    The Bootleg Coal Rebellion
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    The Bootleg Coal Rebellion

    Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal...
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    Milked
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    Milked

    A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them100% DemocracyWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardIn the Midwest, Mexican workers...
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    A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring...
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    Capital Accumulation and Migration

    Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development in general, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation itself. Capital Accumulation and Migration...
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    Labor Rgime Change in the Twenty-First Century

    Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations that see unfree labor as incompatible with capitalism...
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    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
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    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark

    Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Lwy's essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the...
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    Power Lines
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    Power Lines

    The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a "jobs vs. the...
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    Environmentalism from Below
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    Environmentalism from Below

    A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities - among the most...
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    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism
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    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism

    An essential record from the Second International, assembled by Under the Socialist Banner. At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the revolutionary goal of...
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    The Workers' Way to Freedom
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    The Workers' Way to Freedom

    Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), the Dutch astronomer and Marxist revolutionary, was a key theoretician of council communism-a Marxist alternative to both Leninism and Social Democracy that instead emphasized working-class self-emancipation through workers'...
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    Mr. Block
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    Mr. Block

    Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe.A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of...
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    Comedy Against Work
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    Comedy Against Work

    Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is 'reason gone mad.' For Walter Benjamin, laughter was 'the most revolutionary emotion.' In a moment when great numbers of people are...
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    Smart Machines and Service Work
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    Smart Machines and Service Work

    A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's livesIn recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development,...
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    Henry at Work
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    Henry at Work

    Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing...
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    Radium Girls
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    Radium Girls

    'Compelling, inspiring, and radiant.' -FOREWORD "Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Will keep readers engaged in these women's stories from the first...
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    Privatized Planet
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    Privatized Planet

    President Trump has torn up the TTIP and TPP. Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Does this means that corporate globalisation is in retreat? Privatized Planet exposes the truth about 'free trade' in this new era of...
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    Blacklisted

    In this fully updated new edition, the authors lift the lid on blacklisting. They detail the historic court victory for construction workers in the UK and the ongoing Pitchford public inquiry into undercover policing. It links developments in the UK with...
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    Green Bans, Red Union
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    Green Bans, Red Union

    Revised edition of a landmark bookAt the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and...
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    Always Red
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    Always Red

    "Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty. What emerges is a hard-hitting assessment of dramatic times, and a message of hope for the future." -Jeremy CorbynLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the...
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    The Moderate Bolshevik
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    The Moderate Bolshevik

    Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the early Soviet Union.This first English-language biography of Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy...
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    Co-operative Struggles
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    Co-operative Struggles

    In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion...
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    Farewell to Work?
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    Farewell to Work?

    Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s-a process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale. This...
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    Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital
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    Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital

    A much-needed, Marxist economic account of service and retail work, as well as the political alternatives.In Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital, Fabian van Onzen uses Marxist theory to analyse the process by which service and retail workers...
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    The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party
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    The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party

    The Russian Workers' Opposition in 1919-21 advocated trade union management of the Soviet economy and worker dominance of the Russian Communist Party's leading bodies. The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919-30 comprises...
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    The Weight of the Printed Word
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    The Weight of the Printed Word

    In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers'...
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    State Transformations
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    State Transformations

    It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central place in the study of comparative politics in the 1980s. Ironically, this shift occurred just as neoliberal policies were transforming the social form...
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  • Sinking Middle Class
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    Sinking Middle Class

    The Sinking Middle Classchallenges the "save the middle class" rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a...
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    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration
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    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

    This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and...
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    Intellectual and Manual Labour
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    Intellectual and Manual Labour

    A key contribution to post-war Marxist thinking, finally back in print.Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the central figures of the Frankfurt School, with...
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    Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks

    Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellectuals of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of...
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    How Labour Built Neoliberalism
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    How Labour Built Neoliberalism

    In this timely and controversial treatment of the Australian labour movement, Humphrys examines the role of the Labour Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia.Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre...
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  • The Growth Deficit
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    The Growth Deficit

    During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as "secular decline." On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States enjoyed a robust recovery...
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    Bad News
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    Bad News

    "...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."-Michael Lind, author ofThe New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite Something is wrong with...
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    Digital Cathedrals

    We are now witnessing the build-out of society's first foundationally new infrastructure in nearly a century: the Cloud. It is an ecosystem of information-digital hardware, at the heart of which resides massive warehouse-scale datacenters unlike anything...
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    Working It
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    Working It

    Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those...
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    Revolutionary Affinities
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    Revolutionary Affinities

    A sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and unbreakable alliances, Revolutionary Affinities takes readers from the Paris Commune to the Occupy movement, and through the heart of bloody fratricidal struggles to paint a vivid picture of the greatest...
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    Fighting Times
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    Fighting Times

    Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors...
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    Joe Hill
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    Joe Hill

    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. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture...
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    Worn Out
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    Worn Out

    An insider's look at how the rise of "fast fashion" obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers.'With years of expertise in the fashion industry, Alyssa's reporting is consistently deep and thoughtful, and her...
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    Out of Sight

    When jobs can move anywhere in the world, bosses have no incentive to protect either their workers or the environment. Work moves seamlessly across national boundaries, yet the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior remain tied to national...
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    Women and the American Labor Movement

    This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women's struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labor movement follows the triumphs and set backs of this fight from the early Colonial labor associations to the late twentieth century...
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    Lessons of October

    In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the...
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    Disposable Domestics

    Illegal. Unamerican. 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-who work as...
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    Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy

    Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy is the most comprehensive collection available in English of the speeches and writings of Wilhelm Liebknecht, founder and leading voice of the German Social Democratic Party in the nineteenth century. This...
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