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Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History

Gary M. Fink

George State University has hosted the Southern Labor Studies Conferences approximately every two years. As evidenced by the quality of these essays, the field of southern labor history has come...

Gastonia 1929

The Story Of the Loray Mill Strike

John A Salmond

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond...

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism

David Lester

A beautiful book full of hard numbers - hard to take. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors - poverty, exploitation, and injustice - is...

The Pursuit of the Millennium

Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

Norman Cohn

The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing...

Ben Fletcher

The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly

Peter Cole

This book tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class movement. In the early 20th century, when many U.S. unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the...

Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization

Immanuel Wallerstein

In this revised edition of his highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity: the...

Stories from El Barrio

Piri Thomas

Piri Thomas, who reached millions of readers with his bestselling autobiography, Down These Mean Streets, now gives readers of all ages a vivid slice of the life in El Barrio—a place...

The Power in Our Hands

A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States

Bill Bigelow

An incredible book, by a couple of incredible educators. Complete with handouts, case-studies, and looks at everything from Homestead and Union Maids, to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and...

Starving Amidst Too Much & Other IWW Writings On The Food Industry

Peter Rachleff

This is a book about the irrepressible conflict between the poorly paid workers who actually feed the world and the parasitical multi-billionaire corporate powers that make the rules and graba the...