A Digital Archive of Radical Literature
The Working Class
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Overview and Strategy
Workers and the American Economy: Data on the Labor Force
Bonnell, Victoria and Michael Reich
1969
Labor in an Affluent Society: A Collection of Articles / 1967-1968
Rapoport, Roger, Steve Fox, Clark Kissinger, Brenda Mull
Gonna Rise Again!: Economic Organizing for Hard Time
Resources for Community Change
Since When Has Working Been a Crime?: The Deportation of Mexicans Without Paper
Sojourner Truth Organization
International Runaway Shops: Why US Companies are Moving Their Plants Abroad
Zimmerman, Mitch and the United Front Press
History
The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek
Bethell, Thomas N. and Davitt McAteer
1972
Labor's Untold Story, Published by UE
Boyer, Richard and Herbert Morais
Communists Try to Organize: Factories in the Fields; Organizing California Migrant Workers in the Great Depression
Dann, Jim
1969
Literature on the American Working Class
Evansohn, John, Laura Foner, Marj Naison, Ruth Meyerwitz, Will Brumback
1969
A Guide to Working Class History
Faler, Paul; Jim Green; Jim O'Brien; John Battye; David Frank; Greg Kealey & Ian McKay
1976
The AFL and Negro Workers, 1894 -1949
Karson, Mark and Ron Radosh
1968
The Roots of Class Struggle in the South
Lawrence, Ken
1975
Farm Labor Organizing 1905 -1967: a Brief History
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
1967
How Industrial Unionism Was Won: the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, 1936-37 (Progressive Labor Party Pamphlet)
Progressive Labor
1967
Assembly Line and Labor, Mystery and Rebellion: The Story of B. Traven
Raskin, Jonah; B. Traven
1966/77
When Southern Labor Stirs: Struggles of Southern Mountain Textile Workers in 1929-30 (Part 1, Introduction)
Tippett, Tom
When Southern Labor Stirs: Struggles of Southern Mountain Textile Workers in 1929-30 (Part 2, The Strike at Elizabethton)
Tippett, Tom
When Southern Labor Stirs: Struggles of Southern Mountain Textile Workers in 1929-30 (Part 3, The Strike at Gastonia)
Tippett, Tom
When Southern Labor Stirs: Struggles of Southern Mountain Textile Workers in 1929-30 (Part 4, The Strike at Marion)
Tippett, Tom
Assembly Line (1966); and Labor, Mystery and Rebellion, by Jonah Raskin: The Story of B. Traven
Traven, B.
1966
Racial and Ethnic Divisions
Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
Allen, Ted
1975
The Demand for Black Labor: Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism
Baron, Harold
Black and White Construction Workers Divided by the Bosses
Boston Progressive Labor Party
1970
The Blast Furnace Brothers (a short story on black/white solidarity at a steel plant)
Copeland, Vincent
The AFL and Negro Workers, 1894–1949
Karson, Mark and Ronald Radosh
1968
Our Thing is DRUM: An interview; plus The Midwest and the League, by Jim Jacobs
League for Revolutionary Workers
Since When Has Working Been a Crime?: The Deportation of Mexicans Without Paper
Sojourner Truth Organization,
To the Point of Production – An Interview with John Watson of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers / (from the Fifth Estate)
Watson, John
1969
Inside the Workplace
Black Monday: How Businesses and Government are Using Civil Rights to Make Other People Pay for Inflation
Pacific Studies Center
1969
Unions Against the Workers
The Threat of Rank-and-File Power and the Assassination of Dow Wilson (Painters Union), 1967, 30¢
Johnson, Eric
1967
District 65: How a Good Union Goes Bad
Linder ,Walter
Aftermath of the 1967 U.A.W. Strike; Sellout and Insurgency in the Auto Industry, 10¢
Linder, Walter
1968
Photograph from A Guide to Working Class History.
Brookside Women’s Club member Minnie Lunsford
with her picket sign.
Photo by Earl Dotter
Women Wage Earners
Working Women's Music, The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
Alloy,Evelyn
