Strikes books

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former...  Read More >>

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A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty...  Read More >>

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former...  Read More >>

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Interrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current legacies of the Winnipeg General Strike, and its ongoing...  Read More >>

Canada's largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national,...  Read More >>

Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Read More >>

Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Read More >>

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This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011...  Read More >>

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In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General...  Read More >>

"For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal """"wildcat"""" strike - the largest...  Read More >>

"For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal """"wildcat"""" strike - the largest...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance...  Read More >>

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical...  Read More >>

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical...  Read More >>

A compelling oral history of the 2009-11 strike action carried out by cabin crew workers against British Airways....  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance...  Read More >>

Narrative account of miners' strike 1984-5, plus retrospective analysis and comment  Read More >>

One of the most comprehensive portraits of a strike wave ever written, an indispensable window into the changing...  Read More >>

In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses...  Read More >>

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011...  Read More >>

“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS...  Read More >>