Trade unions

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

Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less) who were represented by a labor union-from 29 to 14 percent; the unionization proportion declined much less among workers with above-median education (19 to 13 percent).

Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict.

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

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.

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAleveyIn Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital.

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother?

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

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

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

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?

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.

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

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.

In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

Back in print for the first time in decades.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party.

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

Labor law scholar William B.

**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.

How and why has solidarity changed over time?

How and why has solidarity changed over time?

**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.

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

*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.

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

In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism.

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century.

How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic Party develop after the First World War?