Labor Studies

Stayin’ Alive

The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie

The tortuous path from Nixon to Reagan—think Archie Bunker, Dog Day Afternoon, and Merle Haggard—in a major new work on the cultural and political history of the 1970s, from a prizewinning historian

The Moral Underground

How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson

The untold story of a silent movement for economic justice—led by ordinary middle-class Americans who bend the rules to help the working poor

Wage Theft in America

Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It

Kim Bobo

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The shocking, insidious way employers cheat their workers, with a blueprint for changing policy, from the nationally recognized social justice organizer

Wal-Mart

The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy

Unfinished Work

Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families

Edited by Jody Heymann and Christopher Beem

Leading experts reflect on the changing nature of work and family life

Taxi!

Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

Biju Mathew

A front seat ride through the yellow cab industry of New York City

The Conquest of Bread

150 Years of Agribusiness in California

Richard A. Walker

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present

Myths of Free Trade

Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

Sherrod Brown

NOW IN PAPERBACK A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls
“one of the hippest members of congress”

Which Side Are You On?

Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back

Thomas Geoghegan

The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that “reads like an enthralling novel” (Studs Terkel)

Low Pay, High Profile

The Global Push for Fair Labor

Andrew Ross

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Anti-sweatshop activist and commentator Andrew Ross reports on the inventiveness of low-pay campaigners around the world

To Move a Mountain

Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

Eve S. Weinbaum

The Betrayal of Work

How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

Beth Shulman

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen said “should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress”

The Unmaking of the American Working Class

Reg Theriault

A searingly candid account of work and class in America from the author of How to Tell When You’re Tired

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

A.B. Chitty

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “marvelously informed, carefully-crafted, far-ranging history of working people” (Noam Chomsky)

Making Work Pay

America After Welfare

Edited by Robert Kuttner

Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform

Working-Class New York

Life and Labor Since World War II

Joshua B. Freeman

NOW IN PAPERBACK a “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise

Capital Moves

RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

Jefferson Cowie

NOW IN PAPERBACK the highly acclaimed account of one renowned company’s labor struggles in its rise to global power

The Essential E.P.Thompson

E.P. Thompson

Edited by Dorothy Thompson

The Living Wage

Building a Fair Economy

Robert Pollin, Stephanie Luce

One Hundred Jobs

A Panorama of Work in the American City

Ron Howell

Forbidden Workers

Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

Peter Kwong

American Dreams

Lost and Found

Studs Terkel

Here is the raw material for one thousand novels. . . incomparable.  —MARGARET ATWOOD

The Lexicon of Labor

More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

R. Emmett Murray

PAPERBACK A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore

The Color of Politics

Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

Michael Goldfield

Working

People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Studs Terkel

In celebration of his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, one of three of Studs Terkel’s classics in handsome new paperback editions

Power and Culture

Essays on the American Working Class

Herb G. Gutman

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