Trade unions

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s.

The first attempt since the 1980s to analyse the British state's capacity to block change and derail social movements.

In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested.

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic.

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic.

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia.

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia.

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital.

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital.

The debate around growing inequality is raging amongst economists, and Marxists are finding new ways to map-out the modern economy.

How and why has solidarity changed over time?

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017**Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize*Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and an enforced dearth of union organisation.

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017**Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize*Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and an enforced dearth of union organisation.

How and why has solidarity changed over time?

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

The debate around growing inequality is raging amongst economists, and Marxists are finding new ways to map-out the modern economy.

This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.

Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers as they fight a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal.

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes.

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.

The site of industrial struggle is shifting.

The site of industrial struggle is shifting.

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother?

This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century.

This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century.