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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
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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