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	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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