Books

(Softcover unless otherwise noted)

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Our Community of Workers Coloring Book. Marilyn Anderson and Jonathan Garlock. 32pp. $1

Woody Guthrie Songbook Edited by Judy Bell and Nora Guthrie
Features 48 of Guthrie's legendary songs along with a bio, introduction, complete lyrics, a discography, photos, and sketches. 63pp. $10
Rise Up Singing Peter Blood-Patterson
Contains the lyrics and chords to 1200 songs, many of which deal with labor and struggle. Spiral bound, 288pp. $18
Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader
Peter Bollen with foreword by Jim Green
Primarily a quotation sourcebook for writers and speakers, GLQ is a unique compilation of quotations on work and labor drawn almost entirely from the American labor movement. A provocative, enlightening labor primer that will inspire and entertain jobholders everywhere. 352 pp. $17
Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz Paul Buhle and Mike Alewitz
Powerful full-color images of mural artworks by outspoken labor activist Mike Alewitz. Foreword by Martin Sheen. 150pp. $19
The Wobblies

Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the IWW edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
Contributors include Carlos Cortez, Harvey Pekar, Peter Kuper, Sue Coe, and Spain Rodriquez. 305pp. $25

Unseen America: Photos and Stories by Workers
Edited by Esther Cohen
In Unseen America, a program created by Esther Cohen of the Bread and Roses Cultural Project, thousands of workers were given cameras and lessons in photography, and then asked to document their lives.
202 pp. $35
Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can Diana Cohn, with illustrations by Francisco Delgado
Bilingual children's story honoring the 8000 L.A. Janitors who went on strike in 2000. For children ages 6-10. 32pp. $8
Posada

Viva Posada! Edited and introduced by Carlos Cortez
A salute to the great printmaker of the Mexican Revolution. 94 pp. $10

by Earl Dotter  

The Quiet Sickness: a Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America
25 years of photographs by Earl Dotter. Foreword by Robert Coles. 150 duotones, 172pp. $53

Haymarket: A Novel Martin Duberman
The story of the Haymarket Riot as seen through the eyes of Albert and Lucy Parsons. 2003. 330pp. $17

The World Bank: A Tale of Power, Plunder, and Resistance Alec Dubro and Mike Konopacki
Comic book. 32pp. $3

Pisco Sours Ananda Esteva
Born in Chile and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ananda Esteva writes poetry and prose that weave a duality of culture, perspective, sexuality and language. 73 pp. $10
Not For Bread Alone Moe Foner
A Memoir by Moe Foner with a foreword by Ossie Davis. Hardcover, 142pp. $19

What's the Use of Walking If There's If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?:
Black Hoboes and Their Songs

Paul Garon and Gene Tomko
An extraordinary cultural history of African-American working class life in the early 20th century. The accompanying CD has 25 songs by John Handcox, Blind Willie McTell, Sleepy John Estes, Son House, and many others. 296 pp. $18
Labor's Troubadour Joe Glazer
The LHF founder and Chair recounts his fifty years of musical adventures in labor and politics. Includes lyrics to 70 songs. 325 pp. Softcover, $19
Good Chants for a Lively Picketline (and Some Great Songs too) Compiled by Ruth Goldbaum
A pocket-size handbook with 74 chants and 15 songs. 36 pp.
compiled by Ruth Goldbaum

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The Big Red Songbook: 200 plus IWW Songs!
Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno, editors
The most comprehensive collection of rebel workers' songs and poems ever compiled in English including all the songs that appeared in the IWW's "Little Red Songbook" from 1909 through 1973 plus scores of others that never made it into the songbook. 538 pp. $24
Death in the Haymarket:
A Story of Chicago, The First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America

James Green
A gripping account of the social tensions that led to the Haymarket tragedy in 1886 and of the panic that followed. Hardcover. 383 pp. $27
The Heat  The Heat: Steelworker Lives and Legends
Stories of life in the steel mills told by steelworkers who attended writers' workshops at the Institute for Career Development. 158pp. $15
Hit the Road Bush  Hit the Road Bush
Song parodies by Julie McCall and others.
Cartoons by Mike Konopacki, Gary Huck and Matt Wuerker. 28pp. $1
Going Down Jericho Road:
The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

Michael K. Honey
A moving account of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the events leading to the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hardcover. 640 pp. $35
Two-Headed Alien Shrinks Labor Movement Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki
Huck and Konopacki's latest collection of hilarious, thought-provoking labor and political cartoons. Includes The Wage Slave World News. 112pp. $15
The Inventory of American Labor Landmarks

The Inventory of American Labor Landmarks
A printed listing of 200 monuments, memorials, markers, museums, murals, plaques, public sculptures, and buildings that commemorate the history of America's workers, including landmarks for Haymarket, Ludlow, Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, A. Philip Randolph and many others. 24 pp. $3

The Little Red Song Book

IWW Songs: a Reprint of the 1923 Edition of the Little Red Song Book
64pp. $5

At Work: The Art of California Labor Edited by Mark Dean Johnson
A beautiful book which includes artwork by Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lange, Rupert Garcia, and many others. 154 pp. $20
Holding The Line Barbara Kingsolver
The story of a woman in the Arizona copper mine strike of 1983. 196pp. $17

Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology Joyce L. Kornbluh
IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. 447pp. $24
Ludlow: A Verse-Novel
David Mason
A magnificent novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants in the Southern Colorado coalfields as their lives intertwined with historical figures such as Louis Tikas, Mother Jones, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in the events leading up to the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914. 230 pp. $19
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
Priscilla Murold and A. B. Chitty. Illustrations by Joe Sacco.
A comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people that puts a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor. 364 pp. $19
by Leslie Orear Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery
in Mount Olive, Illinois
Leslie F. Orear
A collection of articles, photos, maps and newspaper clippings about Mother Jones. Published by the Illinois Labor History Society. 116 pp. $20

De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children
Selected, Arranged, and Translated by José-Luis Orozco. Illustrated by Elise Kleven
Twenty seven songs including "De Colores", "Las Mañanitas", and "Paz Y Libertad". 56pp. $8
Accompanying CD is $16.

Alice Rogoff Mural: Poems by Alice Elizabeth Rogoff
These verses are anchored in working class San Francisco, but with a compassion that soon spreads around the country and around the world. Winner of the 2004 Blue Light Book Award. 77 pp. $16
Joe Hill Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
Franklin Rosemont
A chronicle of the life of Joe Hill and the Wobbly culture. Filled with historic cartoons and graphics. 656 pp. $19
Dancin' in the Streets!: Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists & Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of the Rebel Worker and HeatWave. Edited by Franklin Rosemont and Charles Radcliffe
Revolutionary and Fun Writing from the newspapers of the Chicago and London Industrial Workers of the World during the 1960s. 450 pp. $17
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
Sharon Rudahl, with a foreword by Alice Wexler
A wonderful retelling of the famous anarchist and radical icon Emma Goldman’s extraordinary life, this graphic biography embodies the richness and drama of Goldman’s story in a wholly original way. 115 pp. $15
A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: How to Fight Back Where You Work--and Win!
Edited by Jane Slaughter
An update of the classic creative organizing manual, with a chapter by Julie McCall. 2005. 372pp. $25
Just Passing Through
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
A novel about Sebastien San Vicente, a Spanish anarchist organizing unions in Mexico in the 1920s. 173 pp. Hardcover $21
Studs Terkel And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
Studs Terkel
Featuring Studs Terkel's conversations with more than 40 musicians, including Pete Seeger, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. 301 pp. $17
sparks and codes James Tracy
A poet-activist whose writings are designed to unite us with rage against injustice. 49 pp. $10


In Labor's Corner Ben Yomen
"Ben Yomen's cartoons and drawings bear witness to workers' struggles during some of the most decisive years of the union movement." - John J. Sweeney, AFL-CIO President  174pp. $20


Pit Of Infamy Bill Yund
The illustrated story of the 1909 Pressed Steel Car Company Strike at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. 33pp. $12.


What Sid Did Bill Yund
The illustrated story of Sid Hatfield of Matewan. Also includes the Battle of Homestead. 15 pp. $10


Cooper's Walk: An Illustrated Tale of Pennsylvania Labor Bill Yund
Homestead, Mother Jones, the Molly Maguires, and others as seen through the eyes of a fictional French barrel-maker. 40pp. $8

The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films about the New Economic Order
Tom Zaniello
From Afro@Digital to Zoolander, The Constant Gardener to Dirty Pretty Things, and Syriana; documentaries and other nonfiction films such as Blue Vinyl and Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. 202 pp. $17
Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds and Riffraff: an Expanded Guide to Films about Labor
Tom Zaniello
An updated and annotated guide to 350 labor-related films. 448pp. $25
Three Strikes Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelley
Stories of miners, musicians, salesgirls, and the fighting spirit of Labor’s Last Century. 170pp. Hardcover $16

 

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