Labor

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…

Are you ready for a Bring-Your-Reader-To-Work Day? Speaking from her own experiences as an electrician, Kahla Lichti's…

Bobby Seale is perhaps most famous for uncovering in the 1960s that it was legal for Americans to carry loaded assault…

George Orwell's famous novel of revolution, cooptation, and disillusion. Adapted to the graphic novel format by…

Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in…

To survive in today's gig economy, you must be a mover, a shaker, a doer, and a maker. In The Hustle Economy, we give…

Laws - especially labor laws - are often written in difficult to parse language. However, it doesn't have to be…

It's unrealistic to expect everyone to be an emotionless drone at work, but navigating emotions can be difficult in…

The history of work in the last three centuries has been a history of exploitation and slow gains. But the biggest of…

Gain insight to the realities of globalization from the perspective of low-wage workers who have sparked a new labor…

This book chronicles how Bananeras, the female banana workers in Latin America, have been waging a powerful revolution…

Where do you get your books from? Is it your indie bookstore, a large chain, or an online megacorp squeezing the life…

Primo Tapia de la Cruz (1885–1926) was born into the indigenous Tarascan community of Naraja, Mexico. While working as…

As many of us join and prepare to enter the work world, there is more at stake than a decent salary. We are seeking work…

From me too to pay equity, women are stronger when they work together. Here, 40 successful women from different walks of…

From America's leading whistleblower's attorney—the third updated edition of his layman's guide to the legal do's and…

A collection of real-life stories of people collectively taking back ownership of their housing in New York City.…

The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct…

Inequality in the workplace can apply to many aspects of worklife, including neurophobia. This book, Autism Equality in…

This poster features Solidarity Park, a massive occupation and protest of anti-union legislation in Australia in 1997.…

An entertaining and informative graphic novel about US consumption and waste, from the perspective of a garbage…

"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists. In yet another volume, Albert…

The first People's History poster about New Zealand! The New Zealand Federation of Labor, the Red Feds, was the first…

With In-N-Out Burger, BusinessWeek writer Stacy Perman presents a chronicle of how a family-run California hamburger…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

In St. Louis, Missouri in 1933, 500 Black women who worked for the Funsten Nut Company mounted a successful strike…

In this one of a kind book, author Juniper Fitzgerald combines elements of memoir, sociological theory,…

The traditional American devices contained in this intriguing compilation date from an era long before milking machines,…

We Are Many is a reflection on Occupy from within the heart of the movement itself. Examining key questions: What…

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