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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice by Eileen Turnbull
    A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice - by Eileen Turnbull

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804290149 | ISBN 10: 1804290149

    The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s.  In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Immigrant War: A Global Movement Against Discrimination and Exploitation by Vittorio Longhi
    The Immigrant War: A Global Movement Against Discrimination and Exploitation - by Vittorio Longhi

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447305897 | ISBN 10: 1447305892

    The abuse of Asian workers in the oil-rich Gulf countries, the trafficking of undocumented latinos at the US border, the exploitation of African sans papiers in France and the attacks on Sub-Saharan farmhands by the mob in Italy. All these events sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers
    Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 - by Tony Barnsley

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192649 | ISBN 10: 1905192649

    "For two months in the autumn of 1910 hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, who were largely illiterate, who worked 54-hour weeks f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Preston Cotton Martyrs: The Millworkers Who Shocked a Nation by Jim S. Leigh
    Preston Cotton Martyrs: The Millworkers Who Shocked a Nation - by Jim S. Leigh

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781874181453 | ISBN 10: 1874181454

    Preston was no ordinary town during the nineteenth century. While king cotton reigned supreme throughout Lancashire, the underlying ills associated with this industry were very often highlighted particularly starkly there. Child labour, shocking work ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirty Years in a Turtle-Neck Sweater by Nick Warren
    Thirty Years in a Turtle-Neck Sweater - by Nick Warren

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908829 | ISBN 10: 0091908825

    Nick Warren was just like any other boy growing up in the 70s, he liked playing out and being a little sod, and loved his younger brother and sister. Then one day when he was six, his mother kissed him goodbye to go shopping and never came back.  N ... more

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  • Cover image of book The London Years by Rudolf Rocker
    The London Years - by Rudolf Rocker

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780907123309 | ISBN 10: 0907123309

    This is the autobiography of a remarkable man and a window into a long-forgotten world. Rudolf Rocker was a German radical who became the leader of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists in London. He introduced this mass movement to world literatu ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Day: a Short History of the International Workers
    May Day: a Short History of the International Workers' Holiday - by Philip S. Foner

    £10.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780717806249 | ISBN 10: 0717806243

    This is the story of May Day - a holiday born in the USA a hundred years ago and since 1890 celebrated by working people the world over. In this short history, Philip Foner clarifies the dramatic origins of May Day and recounts many highlights of May ... more

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  • Cover image of book Argentina - From Anarchism to Peronism: Workers, Unions and Politics, 1855-1985 by Ronnie Munck, with Ricardo Falcon and Bernardo Galitelli
    Argentina - From Anarchism to Peronism: Workers, Unions and Politics, 1855-1985 - by Ronnie Munck, with Ricardo Falcon and Bernardo Galitelli

    £15.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780862325718 | ISBN 10: 0862325714

    This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of Latin America's oldest - and for many years its largest - working class. After outlining its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization, the authors ... more

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