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The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century - Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa, Enda Brophy (Translator), and Mariarosa Dalla Costa (Introduction by)
Originally published in 1978 and in a long awaited English translation, this classic "manifesta" of radical Italian feminism helped define the autonomist-inspired "wages for housework" movment, and idenitified the capitalist complicity of both the traditional nuclear amily as well as the "liberation" of the woman as wage-earner.

This text poses, at the center of its analysis, the relationship which ...
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Dynamite: A Century Of Class Violence In America - Louis Adamic and Jon Bekken (Foreword by)
The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite, Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known events—from the riots of immigrant workers in the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—he gives pr...
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History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917 to 1945, A - Barry Pateman (Introduction by) and David Berry
David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and personal interviews, Berry's original research explores the debates and growing pains of a massive, working-class, revolutionary movement facing great obstacles and uncertainty. Focusing on the organized wings of the m...
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In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community - Joseph J. Cohen
In 1933 a group of workers from New York, Detroit, and Chicago purchased the fourteen square mile Prarie Farm in Michigan's Saginaw Valley. This is the story of the libertarian collectivist colony known as the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community. Written by its founder, Joseph J. Cohen, and first published by the Sunrise History Publishing Committee in 1957, In Quest of Heaven describes the growth and...
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Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law - Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross
Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that the union operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members?

Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a gu...
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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History - Andrej Grubacic, Denis O'Hearn (Introduction by), and Staughton Lynd
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country ...
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The Essential Rosa Luxemburg
This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor - Les Leopold
In this compelling biography—The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor—author and labor expert Les Leopold recounts the life of the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union leader, his struggle to address the unconscionable toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers—a fight that led to the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and his work alongside nuc...
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Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century - Seth Tobocman and Mumia Abu-Jamal (Introduction by)
"For years now Seth Tobocman has been taking on the powers that be for all of us. He's not slowing down either—check out the contents of this volume." —Harvey Pekar, comics guru, music and book critic, and author of American Splendor series
"I repeatedly tried to get more of Tobocman's work onto our pages but it was deemed too radical. Tobocman won't compromise his principles for money ...
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Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike - David Jay Bercuson
Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and the most complete general strike in North American history? This study seeks the answer tot his question by examining the development of union labor and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the general strike of 1919.

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