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Abolish Restaurants - A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Restaurant, Working Class
The Abolition of Work(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Workers, Exploitation, Capitalism
Anarchosyndicalism - Theory and Practice(.PDF) - Political Theory, Labor Movement, Anarchism, Workers, Spanish Civil War
Behind the Wheel #2 - Notes from Uber/Lyft(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Gig Economy, Capitalism, Rideshare, Drivers, Freelance, Exploitation, Working Class, Class Struggle, Work
The Boss Needs Us, We Don't Need the Boss(.PDF) - Political Theory, Labor Movement, Anarchism, Workers, Organizing, Workplace, Capitalism, Autonomy
A Brief History of Community Resistance and Labor Activism at the University of Washington(.PDF) - (Sept. 2019) Education, Labor Movement, Activism, Students, Workers, College, Class Struggle, Professors, Janitors, Workers, Prison Labor, Staff, Labor History
Chronology of the Chilean Workers Movement(.PDF) - (1983) Chile, South America, Latin America, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Capitalism, Anarchosyndicalism, IWW, Union, Organizing, Labor History
Class Struggle in Italy 1960s to 70s(.pdf) Italy, History, Europe, Capitalism, Work, Economy, Cities, Class Struggle, Factories, Unions, Unionism, Hot Autumn, Fiat, Labor Organizing, Strikes, Protest, Corso Traiano
Cleaners! UK Struggles 1970's to Now(.pdf) Unions, Organizing, Workplace, Service Industry, UK, England, Britain, Cleaning, Work, Labor, Workers, Rights, Class Struggle, Capitalism
Combative Unionism(.PDF) - Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Workplace, Strike
Counter-Planning On the Shop Floor(.PDF) - (Bill Watson, 1971) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Workplace, Strike
Digger Tracts 1649-50(.PDF) - Peasants, Diggers, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Labor History
Direct Unionism(.PDF) - Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Activism
Dishwasher #7(.PDF) - Dishwashing, Food Service, Restaurant, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Perzine, Workplace, Employers, Customers
Dishwasher #8(.PDF) - Dishwashing, Food Service, Restaurant, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Perzine, Workplace, Employers, Customers
Dishwasher #9(.PDF) - Dishwashing, Food Service, Restaurant, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Perzine, Workplace, Employers, Customers
Does Work Make You Sick?(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Employers, Health, Wellbeing, Disability, Injury, Activism, Unions, Organizing, Bosses
The Ethics of Labor Struggle(.PDF) - (Kevin A Carson) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Anarchism, Mutualism
The Everett Massacre(.PDF) - (Scott Wilson) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Anarchism, Labor History, Massachusetts, Everett, Industrial Revolution, Logging, Timber, Resistance, Capitalism
France - The General Strike of 1968(.PDF) - Labor History, Situationism, Anarchism, Strike, France, Europe, Labor Movement, Workers, Resistance, Organizing
The General Strike(.PDF) - (IWW May 1982) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Strike, Walkout, Resistance
The Global Working Class(.PDF) - (Summer 2015) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Organizing, Activism, Resistance, Strike, Walkouts
Good Old Fashioned Trade Unionism(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Trades, Crafts, Unions, Organizing, Activism, Labor History
Graduating Into Unemployment(.PDF) - Class Struggle, College, Debt, Workers, Jobs, Economy, Unemployment, Job Search, Students, Advice
Grin and Bare It All - Against Liberal Perceptions of Sex Work(.PDF) - (Luna Celeste) Labor Movement, Sex Work, Progressives, Political Theory, Workers, Class Struggle, Capitalism
History of the Anarchist-Syndicalist Trade Union Movement(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, IWW, Wobblies, Organizing, Activism, Anarchism, Mutualism, Unions, Labor History
The Honest Worker(.PDF) - (Zo D'Axa 1898) Capitalism, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Prose
How to Fire Your Boss(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Bosses, Employers, Activist Guide, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Strike, Walkout, Resistance, Capitalism
I Love Work Place Theft(.PDF) - Sabotage, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Capitalism, Direct Action
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day(.PDF) - (Peter Linebaugh) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Haymarket, Strike
Industrial Domestication(.PDF) - Capitalism, Factories, Poverty, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Industrial Revolution, Bosses, Prisons
Industrial Unionism(.PDF) - Capitalism, Factories, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Industrial Revolution, Bosses, Organizing
Introducing Anarcho-Syndicalism(.PDF) - Anarchism, Syndicalism, Political Theory, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Bosses
IWW Organizing Manual(.PDF) - Unions, Trades, Industrial, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies
IWW Songs to Fan the Fires of Discontent(.PDF) - Unions, Trades, Industrial, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Songs, Music, Wobblies, Solidarity
Joe Hill IWW Songwriter(.PDF) - Joe Hill, Biography, Music, Songs, IWW, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies
Justice From Bean to Cup(.pdf) IWW, Wobblies, Unions, Unionism, Starbucks, Coffee, Labor Movement, Organizing, Class Struggle, Workers, Baristas
Know Your Rights as a Worker(.PDF) - Unions, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace
Let the Crops Rot in the Fields(.PDF) - Prison Slavery, Incarceration, Labor, Abolition, Resistance, Protest, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Legal, Work
The Legacy of Bunker Hill Mine(.pdf) (Arthur J. Miller) - Idaho, History, Labor, Unions, Mining, Industry, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Workers, Working Class, Environmental Disaster, Toxins
The Little Red Songbook(.PDF) - Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Labor History, Wobblies, Songs, Music, Solidarity, Joe Hill
Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism(.pdf) (Rudolf Rocker) - Political Theory, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Workers, Labor Movement, Working Class, Class Politics, Class War, Tactics, Strike, Activism Guides, Work, Labor, Unions
Miner Conflicts, Major Contradictions(.pdf) (July 1984) - Workers, Labor Movement, Working Class, Class Politics, Class War, Tactics, Strike, Labor History, Britain, UK, England, Work, Labor, Unions, British Miners Strike, Poverty, Classism
The Mythology of Work(.PDF) - Work, Labor, Workers, Jobs, Capitalism, Society, Political Theory, Philosophy
Never Work!(.PDF) - Work, Labor, Workers, Jobs, Capitalism, Society, Political Theory, Philosophy
NYC Retail Workers Union(.PDF) - Unions, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Retail, Service Industry, Capitalism, Bosses, New York City
Oh Sit Down(.PDF) - Sitdown Strikes, Workplace Occupations, Unions, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, United Kingdom, UK, England, Labor History
On the Frontline, Anarchists at Work(.pdf) Labor Movement, Anarchism, Work, Wages, Class Struggle, Unions, Unionism, Political Theory, Syndicalism, Resistance
One Big Union and Horizontal Worker Cooperatives in Texas: A Story(.PDF) - (Scott Crow) Unions, Texas, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Labor History, Organizing
A Path (and Guide) Towards Storytelling Sovereignty(.pdf) BIPOC, Writing, Writers, Authors, Stories, Marginalized Voices, Racism, Creativity, Creative Industry, Labor Movement, White Exploitation, Media, Academia, Censorship, BIPOC Stories
Pregnant & On the Job - Your Legal Rights (.PDF) - Workers, Mothers, Pregnancy, Legal Rights, Guide, Working Class, Class Struggle, Capitalism, Economy, Work, Labor, Jobs
Pride in Our Work(.PDF) - Domestic Workers, Cleaners, Housekeepers, National Domestic Workers Alliance, NDWA, Activism Guide, La Colectiva de Mujeres, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Migrant Labor
Promoting Your Union(.PDF) - Unions, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Promotion, Organizing
A Rebel Worker's Organizing Handbook(.PDF) - Unions, Sabotage, Strike, Walkouts, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Organizing
Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Movement(.PDF) - (Max Nettlau 1899) Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Capitalism, Industrial Revolution, Labor History
Right to Be Lazy(.PDF) - (Paul Lafargue) Workers, Class Struggle, Leisure, Wellbeing, Productivity, Capitalism, Work, Labor Movement, Weekends, Creativity
Rules for Picketing(.PDF) - Strike, Walkout, Lockout, Picket Line, Unions, Work Stoppage, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Organizing
The Seattle General Strike of 1919(.PDF) - Strike, Work Stoppage, Industrial Revolution, Unions, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Seattle, Washington
Shopfloor Struggles of American Workers(.PDF) - (Martin Glaberman) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, America, Labor History
Slow Tech Against Chrononormativity(.pdf) (Grant Chinn - May 2021) - Technology, Tech Industry, Workers, Capitalism, Sustainability, Productivity, Exploitation, Reparative Design, Tech Hacks, Hackathons, Silicon Valley, Work, Jobs
Smashed Up - Young Service Workers on the Sanctity of Small Business(.PDF) - Service Industry, Retail, Mom and Pop Store, Small Business, Capitalism, Exploitation, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Economy
The Social General Strike(.PDF) - Strike, Work Stoppage, Industrial Revolution, Unions, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, UK, England
Social Media for Unions(.PDF) - Unions, Activism Guide, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Promotion, Organizing, Social Media, Technology, Internet
Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks(.PDF) - Unions, Starbucks, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Coffee, Organizing, Baristas
Spanish Civil War - Anarchism in Action(.pdf) (Eddie Conlon - June 2001) Spain, History, Anarchism, CNT-FAI, Antifascism, Resistance, Europe, Workers, Class Struggle, Strikes
Speech to the IWW in 1905(.PDF) - (Lucy Parsons) Unions, IWW, Wobblies, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Women
A Stockade Stood Burning - Rebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee's Coalfields 181-1895(.PDF) - Coal miners, Prison Labor, Labor History, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Sabotage, Organizing, Resistance, Tennessee
Strike - A Guide to Walking Out(.pdf) Workers, Working Class, Class Struggle, Strikes, Sabotage, Unions, Organizing, Capitalism, Economics, Resistance, Activism Guide, Labor, Work
Throwing Garbage(.PDF) - Sanitation Workers, Solidarity, Strikes, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Workplace, Organizing, Labor History
To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disheartened, and Miserable(.pdf) -Lucy E. Parsons - Homelessness, Vagrancy, Poverty, Capitalism, Impoverished, Class War, Labor, Working Class, The Poor, Industry, Revolution, Resistance
Towards a Student Unionism(.PDF) - Unions, Students, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, College, University, Schooling, Schools, Organizing, Activism Guide
Towards Workers Control(.PDF) - (P. Turner 1971) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Activism Guide, Anarchism, Labor History
Understanding Capitalist Exploitation(.PDF) - (Brian Ellis 2010) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Anarchism, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs
Understanding the Complexities of Sex Work/Trade and Trafficking(.PDF) - (Emi Koyama) Sex Workers, Labor Movement, Class Struggle, Organizing, Capitalism, Work, Jobs
Unions Against Revolution(.PDF) - Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Resistance, Anarchism, Labor History, Capitalism, Revolt, Work, Jobs
The Wage System(.PDF) - (Peter Kropotkin) Wages, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Anarchism, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs, Poverty
What is the Middle Class?(.PDF) - (Albert Meltzer 1995) Economy, Caste System, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, White Collar, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class
What is the Union?(.PDF) - (Emile Pouget 1905) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Industrial Revolution, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs
Whatever Happened to the Eight Hour Day?(.PDF) - (Arthur J. Miller) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs, Health, Wellbeing
Which Way For the Gig Economy?(.PDF) - (Kevin Carson 2016) Gigs, Freelance, Independent Contractors, Wages, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Uber, Service Industry, Labor History, Capitalism, Sharing Economy, Work, Jobs
Why Work?(.PDF) - (S.L. Louwndes 1982) Workers, Class Struggle, Leisure, Wellbeing, Productivity, Capitalism, Work, Labor Movement, Weekends, Creativity, Political Theory
Work(.PDF) - Workers, Class Struggle, Leisure, Wellbeing, Productivity, Capitalism, Work, Labor Movement, Weekends, Creativity, Tyranny, Anarchism, Political Theory
The Worker and the Machine(.PDF) - (Ricardo Flores Magon 1916) Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Industrial Revolution, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs, Mechanization, Machines, Factories, Assembly Line
Workers Autonomy(.PDF) - Workers, Class Struggle, Unions, Trade Unionism, Capitalism, Work, Labor Movement, Anarchism, Political Theory
Working For You, Me, We, Us and Them(.PDF) - Labor Movement, Non-Profits, Working Class, Economy, Workers, Class Struggle, Jobs, Work, Autonomy
You Can't Scare Me... Labor Heroines 1930s-1980s (.PDF) - Women, Feminism, Unions, Labor Movement, Workers, Class Struggle, Organizing, Industrial Revolution, Labor History, Capitalism, Ruling Class, Work, Jobs, Factories, Biographies