"In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mik…
"In this history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience."--Jacket.
"Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working class mind. Networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor…
Introduction -- "A little avenue to self-mastery": the social world of working-class readers -- "All sorts of wild, impassioned talk": open forums and the working-class public sphere -- "To see and hear things that have always been there": labor's pedagogy of the organized -- Br…
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Work…
Weinstein blends memoir and history to paint a picture of workers' organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. He chronicles the struggles of his fellow Jewish workers and an America in which un…
This title studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation. B…
This is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for w…
This is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for w…
This title studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation. B…
"A new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived. Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her h…
"From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived. Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and rai…