The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big

Dana Frank

Woolworth's department store was the Walmart of the early-20th century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers, and storerooms were overworked, underpaid, and sexually harassed. This is...

Upon the Backs of Labour

Arthur Miller

Arthur J. Miller's essays, stories really, are firsthand accounts of a working person's life, in his own words, uncensored and unapologetic. For Arthur, expressing his thoughts in print is a form...

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

A Study in Urban Revolution

Dan Georgakas

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark...

Reform or Revolution

And Other Writings

Rosa Luxemburg

A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (published in 1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation...

Songs of Work and Protest

100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes

Edith Fowke & Joe Glazer

This collection includes 100 songs from the history of the labor movement, together with the stories of the genuine situations from which they sprang. Includes songs by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Joe...

Back to Full Employment

Robert Pollin

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin...

How to Fire Your Boss

A Worker's Guide to Direct Action

IWW

"The indignity of working-for-a-living is well-known to anyone who ever has. Democracy, the great principle on which American society is supposedly founded, is thrown out the window as soon as we...

Truth and Revolution

A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986

Michael Staudenmaier

In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural...

The People's Pension

The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan

Eric Laursen

The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an eye-opening guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues of our times. With 95 percent of Americans participating...