Strikes books

This book explores key issues affecting the post-NAFTA development and trajectory of North America's most important...  Read More >>

Examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by studying the hundred-day writers’ strike that thwarted Hollywood...  Read More >>

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A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former...  Read More >>

'TENDER, SEXY, UPLIFTING AND FUN' SARAH WATERS - a queer coming-of-age love story that's funny, filthy and full...  Read More >>

A reprint of one English newspaper reporter's response championing the cause of the hardship of the longest strike...  Read More >>

A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty...  Read More >>

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Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union's struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Read More >>

Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union's struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Read More >>

By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day...  Read More >>

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011...  Read More >>

The Violence of Work demonstrates that violence has always been an important part of work under capitalism. The...  Read More >>

In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General...  Read More >>

"For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal """"wildcat"""" strike - the largest...  Read More >>

For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal """"wildcat"""" strike - the largest...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance...  Read More >>

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical...  Read More >>

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical...  Read More >>

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First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance...  Read More >>

Narrative account of miners' strike 1984-5, plus retrospective analysis and comment  Read More >>

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In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses...  Read More >>