Labor Revolution

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its...

An Enthralling Look at How Machines and Factories Changed Our World The Industrial Revolution marked one of the most dramatic shifts in human history. What began as a wave of invention turned into a complete transformation of how people lived, worked, and thought. This book unpacks that turning point with clarity and depth—making sense of both the breakthroughs and the costs. You'll explore: How millions were drawn from farms into factories, laying the foundation for explosive industrial growth. Why the steam engine became a force of global change, reshaping not just industries but daily ...

In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened by World War II transformed a country once defined by its regional character into a uniform and cohesive power and set the stage for the United States’ rise to global dominance. Meanwhile, Freeman locates the profound tragedy that has shaped the path of American civic life.

A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the...

Welcome to the most pivotal moment of our generation—a turning point that is reshaping your job, your career, and your child’s future. In AI Shock, bestselling author and AI strategist Elijah Low delivers a wake-up call and a survival guide for a world being rapidly rewritten by artificial intelligence. For decades, economic value was measured by job titles, college degrees, and accumulated knowledge. But AI is now replacing all three—faster than anyone expected. From law firms and classrooms to factories and hospitals, no industry is safe. And yet, this moment of disruption offers a ...

In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was underway - Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story of when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed.

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later. It is a time of...

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America’s biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it...

What if a quarter of your elected leaders - including five party heads - were secretly tied to pro-China communists, Cuban revolutionaries, militant Marxists and hardcore Māori separatists? US-based Kiwi investigator Trevor Loudon has done the research and brings the receipts. In Godzone Enemies: Socialists and Revolutionaries in the New Zealand Parliament, Loudon rips the veil off Labour, Greens, and Te Pāti Māori, exposing how tiny, Marxist groups and foreign-backed radicals have hijacked our halls of power. Backed by 40+ pages of ironclad references - from long-hidden communist ...

This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.

Have you ever stopped to wonder what work truly means—beyond the paycheck, the routine, and the burnout? Chains Through the Ages offers a sweeping yet concise exploration of the evolution of work—from tribal cooperation and ancient slavery to the digital demands of our hyperconnected age. This thought-provoking nonfiction journey invites readers to reflect on the deep historical, psychological, philosophical, and technological forces that shape our daily labor. Discover how industrial revolutions redefined human toil Understand how work-related stress reshaped modern health Dive into ...

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and...

A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. From the...

A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives—from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice “Compelling . . . an extremely sympathetic...

Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society.

Luton, Bedfordshire, 1850. Smoke rises from the chimneys of newly built factories, and the streets hum with the clatter of carts and footsteps. In a town famed for its straw hats, fifteen-year-old Eliza Hart trades her schoolbooks for a sewing needle when her father’s carpentry business falters. Drawn into the fast-paced world of hat-making, Eliza becomes apprentice to Mrs. Temperance Blake, a mysterious and exacting milliner with a reputation as sharp as her hatpins. As Eliza learns the craft—stitch by stitch, brim by brim—she also discovers the cost borne by the women who keep the ...

Gail Tsukiyama's A Hundred Flowers is powerful novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many...

The legacies of Marx and Lenin continue to have a profound impact on socialist and communist thought.

From the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, a definitive how-to guide to workplace organizing told through a David vs. Goliath chronicle for the ages. On April 1, 2022, the Amazon warehouse known as JFK8, in Staten Island, notched an improbable victory when its workers voted to become the...

The story of the Industrial Revolution is not merely a tale of steam engines, steel mills, or assembly lines—it is the chronicle of how humanity redefined its relationship with nature, labor, and itself. This eBook traces the sweeping arc of two monumental revolutions that reconfigured the contours of the modern world. The First Industrial Revolution, born in the late 18th century in Britain, ushered in an age of mechanization that transformed agriculture, textiles, iron production, and steam power. Cities swelled, factories rose, and the fabric of daily life was irrevocably altered. With...