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Unions Present and Future
Works on contemporary unions, union strategy, and the future of organized labor. U.S.-centered due to my own knowledge biases, not by design -- more global works are welcome. Nonfiction only.
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The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement
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Why Unions Matter
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
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Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
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Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America
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Daniel Katz (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
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Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
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4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
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What Does Syndicalism Want? Living, Not Dead Unions
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"They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions
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More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
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Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
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3.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
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4.18 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement (An Ilr Press Book)
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Ruth Milkman (editor)
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
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Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
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3.89 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Labor Versus Empire
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Gilbert G. González (Editor)
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Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
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55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike
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Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America
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4.23 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
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Kevin Roose (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
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3.99 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor
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Dorothy Sue Cobble (Editor)
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Where Are The Unions?: Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
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Peter Waterman (Afterword)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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What Unions No Longer Do
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3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Building More Effective Unions
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Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns (Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series)
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Kate Bronfenbrenner (Editor)
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing
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No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
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Win More Union Organizing Drives: How Unions Can Fight Back and Organize
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Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
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Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back
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Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement
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Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights At Wal-Mart
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3.81 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market
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Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California
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Ruth Milkman (Editor)
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement
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Ruth Milkman (Editor)
3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
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Mari Jo Buhle (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
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Micah Uetricht (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 236 ratings
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We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing
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Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
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US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below
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The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
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