The Story of the Great San Francisco General Strike of 1934 Mike Quinn 1979 259p 5 x 7 On May 9, 1934, International Labor Association (ILA) leaders called a strike of all dockworkers on the West Coast who were joined a few days later by seamen and teamsters, effectively stopping all shipping from San Diego … Continue reading The Big Strike
The Life and Times of A Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher & Peter Cole 2006 149p 5.5 x 8.5 The great African American Wobbly organizer, Benjamin Fletcher (1890-1949), was noted for his brilliant organizing ability and imaginative on-the-job strategies, as well as for his courage, humor, and excellence as a … Continue reading Ben Fletcher
Post-Political Politics Christian Marazzi & Sylvère Lotringer 2007 340p 7 x 10 ‘Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails…. I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate … Continue reading Autonomia
1860-1931 John M. Hart 1987 260p 6 x 9 The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately … Continue reading Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class
The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont 2003 650p 5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned … Continue reading Joe Hill
Émile Zola 1885 400p MMPB Classic novel about a miners’ strike in northern france – the struggle for life and diginity before the arrival of formal unions. $2-5 Other works involving labor struggles, miners, france, fiction
Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women Martha A. Ackelsberg 1991 252p 6 x 9 The members of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were tenacious enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives – these women mobilized over 20,000 people into an organized network during the Spanish … Continue reading Free Women of Spain
The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history – the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, … Continue reading The Battle of Blair Mountain
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading
The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic 1935 380p 5 x 8 The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite, Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known … Continue reading Dynamite