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| Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, 25th Anniversary Edition by Harry Braverman "Labor and
Monopoly Capital is one of the most influential books of our time, and it
deserves to be. This new edition will help a new generation of readers
understand the forces that are now transforming work around the
world." |
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| Labor Pains: Inside America’s New Union Movement by Suzan Erem Labor Pains is an insider’s account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement. Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs: Employment and Unemployment in the United States by Michael D. Yates Using charts, graphs, and cartoons, Michael Yates describes how unemployment, or the fear of it, is part of the life of every American worker. He outlines the changes in the structure of the labor market that have undermined the living standards of the employed. Tying these together, he provides an easily understood analysis of the economy and the social destruction brought on by its everyday functions. |
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| Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality by Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz "Here is a piece
of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there was a book our
young needed, it is Meatpackers—it reveals an epoch in which trade unions
fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights
constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading." |
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| A New Labor Movement for the
New Century "Indispensable reading." — JESSE JACKSON This collection charts the possibilities for a more vibrant, inclusive, and democratic labor movement. Participants include both union leaders and rank-and-file activists, representing a wide variety of industrial, clerical, as well as service employees; scholars, teachers, and intellectuals, and both labor radicals and labor moderates. |
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| Not Automatic:
Women and the Left in the
Forging of the Auto Workers' Union by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson
Dollinger "Sol Dollinger's
remembrance of UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those
goofy internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they,
united even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al, recognize the
union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937
sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring." |
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| Rising from the
Ashes: Labor
in the Age of "Global" Capitalism Rising from the Ashes? takes on the hottest issues being debated by scholars and labor activists, including the changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labor militancy, and the strategic options available to working people in an age "global" capitalism. |
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| Taking Care of
Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, "Essential
reading for a new generation of organizers, scholars, and activits, as labor
once again, seeks to realign itself with social justice and community based
movements." |
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| Why Unions Matter by Michael Yates "A comprehensive,
readable introduction to the history, structure, functioning, and yes, the
problems of U.S. unions. For labor and political activists just coming on the
scene or veterans looking for that missing overview, this is the place to
start." |
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