The Working Class
A Guide to Working Class History, Jim O'Brien, Jim Green, Paul Faler, John Battye, David Frank, Greg Kealey, and Ian McKay
Photograph from A Guide to Working Class History.Brookside Women’s Club member
Minnie Lunsford with her picket sign.
Photo by Earl Dotter
Overview and Strategy
Steve Babson & Nancy Brigham, What's Happening to Our Jobs, $1.45
Daniel Bell, The Subversion of Collective Bargaining in the 1950’s, 1960, 15¢
Harold Benenson and Eric Lessinger, Towards a "Middle Class" America?
Big Flame, Portugal: A Blaze of Freedom, 50¢
James Boggs, The Rise and Fall of the Union, 15¢
Victoria Bonnell and Michael Reich, Workers and the American Economy: Data on the Labor Force, 50¢
Joe Eyer, Living Conditions in the US, 10¢
John Evansohn/Laura Foner/Mark Naison/Ruth Meyerwitz/Will Brumback, Literature on the American Working Class, 15¢
Martin Glaberman, Be His Payment High or Low: The American Working Class of the Sixties, 50¢
Industrial Workers of the World, A Worker's Guide to Direct Action, 1974, 25¢
Katherine Kaufer and Tom Christoffel, The Political Economy of Male Chauvinism, 10¢
David Montgomery, What's Happening to the American Worker?, 20¢
Resources for Community Change, Gonna Rise Again!: Economic Organizing for Hard Times, $1.00
Kim Moody, The American Working Class in Transition, 35¢
Mike Myerson, The ILGWU: Fighting for Lower Wages, 10¢
Sojourner Truth Organization, Since When Has Working Been a Crime?, The Deportation of Mexicans Without Papers,
Paul Romano, Life in the Factory, 30¢
Elizabeth Ross, Welfare: Why Workers Need it, How Billionaires Get it, 1975, 35¢
Paul Sweezy, Marx and the Proletariat, 1967, 35¢
Roger Rapoport, Steve Fox, Clark Kissinger, Brenda Mull, Labor in an Affluent Society: A Collection of Articles / 1967–1968
Walter Linder and Martin Stevens, Dual Unionism; Outmoded Strategy or Useful Tactic? / 1967
Gary, Indiana Writers' Workshop and Staughton Lynd, Two Steel Contracts, 1971
Steve Wagner, American Factories are Death Traps, 10¢
Bill Watson, Counter-planning on the Shop Floor, 1971
James Weinstein, The Grand Illusion, The Communist Party and Trade Unionism, 1975
Stan Weir, USA.: The Labor Revolt of the 1960s / 1967, 35¢
Mitch Zimmerman & the United Front Press, International Runaway Shops: Why US Companies are Moving Their Plants Abroad, 50¢
History
T. N. Bethel, Conspiracy in Coal, 25¢
Thomas N. Bethell and Davitt McAteer, The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek, 1972, 25¢
Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais, Labor's Untold Story, Published by UE, $2.50
Jim Dann, Communists Try to Organize “Factories in the Fields”; Organizing California migrant workers in the Great Depression / 1969
Evansohn/Foner/Naison/Meyerwitz/Brumback, Literature on the American Working Class, 15¢
Paul Faler, Jim Green, Jim O'Brien, John Battye, David Frank, Greg Kealey, & Ian McKay, A Guide to Working Class History, 60¢
Martin Glaberman, Be His Payment High or Low: The American Working Class of the 60's, 50¢
IWW, Industrial Workers of the World Songbook, 50¢
Karson/Radosh, The AFL and Negro Workers, 1894–1949, 25¢
Ken Lawrence, The Roots of Class Struggle in the South, 60¢
Walter Linder, How Industrial Unionism was Won: the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, 1936-37 / Progressive Labor Party Pamphlet, 1967, 25¢
Staughton Lynd, A History of the Steelworkers Union, 30¢
Staughton Lynd, editor, Personal Histories of the Early CIO, 25¢
David Montgomery, What's Happening to the American Worker?, 20¢
Mark Naison, Rent Strikes in New York, 30¢
Mark Naison, The Southern Tenants Farmers’ Union and the C.I.O., 1968, 15¢
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, Farm Labor Organizing: 1905 – 1967; a Brief History, 1967, 50¢
Dean Nolan and Fred Thompson, Joe Hill, IWW Songwriter, 1979
Paul Nyden, The Coal Miner's Struggle in Eastern Kentucky, 25¢
Brian Peterson, Working Class Communism: A review of the literature, 25¢
PL, Sit-down: The Great Flint Sit-down Strike Against General Motors, 1936-1937, 25¢
Vincent Pinto, Soldiers and Strikers
Jonah Raskin, Labor, Mystery and Rebellion, 1977; and Assemblyline by B. Traven, 1966
Tom Tippett, When Southern Labor Stirs: Struggles of Southern Mountain Textile Workers in 1929–30, $1.50
Part 1, Introduction, 50¢
Part 2, The Strike at Elizabethton, 25¢
Part 3, The Strike at Gastonia, 35¢
Part 4, The Strike at Marion, 40¢
B. Traven, Assemblyline, 1966; and Labor, Mystery and Rebellion, Jonah Raskin, 1977
James Weinstein, The Grand Illusion: Trade Unionism and the Left, 35¢
Racial and Ethnic Divisions
Ted Allen, Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, 50¢, 1975
Robert Analavage, Laurel Strike is Broken: Black and White Divided, 1968, 5¢
Tomas Almaguer, Class, Race, and Chicano Oppression, 50¢
Harold Baron, The Demand for Black Labor: Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism, 75¢
Steve Biko, Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity AND I Write What I Like, 40¢
Boston PL, Black and White Construction Workers Divided by the Bosses, 10¢
Vincent Copeland, The Blast Furnace Brothers (a short story on black/white solidarity at a steel plant), $1.00
Noel Ignatin, Black Worker, White Worker, 30¢
Jim Jacobs, Black Workers Set the Pace (in Detroit, about DRUM), 1969, 5¢
Fred Lacey, Memphis Workers Fight; the City Sanitation Workers’ Strike / 1968, 30¢
Elinor Langer, The Women of the Telephone Company, 1970, 20¢
League for Revolutionary Workers, Our Thing is DRUM: an interview; plus The Midwest and the League, by Jim Jacobs, 30¢
Kathy McAfee, Black Brothers Have a Better Idea (Mahwah Strike), 5¢
Brenda Mull, Blue Ridge: Our Struggle Against Levi-Strauss, 10¢
New England Free Press, On the Job Oppression of Working Women: A collection of articles, 20¢
Sojourner Truth Organization, Since When Has Working Been a Crime?: The Deportation of Mexicans Without Papers, 40¢
John Watson, To the Point of Production –An Interview with John Watson of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers / (from the Fifth Estate), 1969, 15¢
Inside the Workplace
Vincent Copeland, The Blast Furnace Brothers, 1973
Industrial Workers of the World, A Worker's Guide to Direct Action, 1974, 25¢
Elinor Langer, Women of the Telephone Company, 50¢
John Lippert, Fleetwood Wildcat
Fun, Games, Money, (GM Workers)
Pacific Studies Center, Black Monday: How businesses and government are using civil rights to make other people pay for inflation, 10¢
Paul Romano, Life in the Factory, 30¢
Radical America, American Labor History: Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class,
Bill Watson, Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor, 25¢
Steve Babson and Nancy Brigham, What's Happening to Our Jobs?
Unions Against the Workers
T. N. Bethel, Conspiracy in Coal: The companies and the UMW against the workers, 20¢
James Boggs, The Rise and Fall of the Union, 1963
Eric Johnson, The Threat of Rank-and-File Power and the Assassination of Dow Wilson (Painters Union), 1967, 30¢
Elinor Langer, The Hospital Workers: 'The Best Contract Anywhere'?, 1971, 20¢
Walter Linder, Aftermath of the 1967 U.A.W. Strike; Sellout and Insurgency in the Auto Industry, 10¢
Walter Linder, District 65: How a Good Union Goes Bad, 15¢
Staughton Lynd and Gary, Indiana Writers Workshop, Two Steel Contracts, 30¢
Michael Myerson, The ILGWU: Fighting for Lower Wages, 20¢
Steve Wagner, American Factories are Death-Traps, 5¢
Women Wage Earners
Evelyn Alloy, Working Women's Music, The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades, $2.50
Ann Froines, Women's Work is Never Done, 40¢
Brenda Mull, Blue Ridge: Our Struggle Against Levi-Strauss, 20¢
Jean Tepperman, Sixty Words a Minute and What Do You Get?: Clerical Workers Today, 50¢
Ilene Winkler, Women Workers: The Forgotten Third of the Working Class, 35¢
Women's Work Project, Separated and Unequal: Discrimination Against Women Workers After WWII, $1.00