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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class Histor
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638232Author Working Class HistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Im -
Working Class History by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £38.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638874Author Working Class HistorFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imp -
Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement Oliver Betts 9781032882963
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class - especially discussion of the working class - to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.05Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he... -
Guantanamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution by Jana K. Lipman 9780520255401
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantanamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has... -
Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History by Craig Heron 9781487503253
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £30.18Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of... -
Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History by Sandra Bloodworth 9780645253467
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645253467Author Sandra BloodworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint -
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Premier Issue: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas by Leon Fink 9780822365938 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25The inaugural issue of Labor offers an example of what readers can expect to find on a regular basis-full coverage of new trends in labor history. It features an extensive interview with retired Yale... -
Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History by Craig Heron 9781487522513
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.61Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of... -
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History by James R. Barrett 9780822369677
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant... -
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History by James R. Barrett
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant... -
Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 by Gareth Stedman Jones
Booksplease Price: £39.40This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of 'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of... -
Community in Conflict: A Working-Class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy by Gary Kaunonen 9781611860931
Booksplease Price: £57.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611860931Author Gary KaunonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint -
The Children of Aberfan: A heart-breaking true story of loss, community and courage by Sue Elliott 9781800963047
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The story of a tragedy never forgotten, and a community who came together to mourn a generation of childrenIn October 1966, a small Welsh mining village was hit by disaster. Heavy rain had been... -
Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950 by Ann Basu 9780750987905
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18This is the other side of the story. Before the Second World War, Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that time of high migration, the women's fashion trade... -
A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 Rebecca Ball 9783031550836
Booksplease Price: £112.12Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was 'an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs'. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and... -
Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution by Timothy Murtagh 9781802077148
Booksplease Price: £109.14Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution is a comparative study of the political activities of workers in three Irish cities: Dublin, Belfast and Cork. It... -
Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution Timothy Murtagh 9781836245049
Booksplease Price: £29.41Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution is a comparative study of the political activities of workers in three Irish cities: Dublin, Belfast and Cork. It... -
Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History by Brandon Weber 9781608468478
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25A rich collection of stories about ordinary people who resisted oppression and exploitation, Brandon Weber's short essays capture the little-known moments of struggle when workers and veterans built... -
The Chilean Body Politic: Gender and Political Philosophy in the Early Chilean Working Class Joaquín Montalva Armanet 9783032043863
Booksplease Price: £111.03This monograph explores how Chilean urban workers translated nineteenth-century European political philosophy according to their conditions, locality, and colonial history. The research is grounded... -
A People's History of Portugal Raquel Varela 9780745351605
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.24A People's History of Portugal reconstructs the last two hundred years of class struggle in Portugal. Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa examine the material conditions of its people - examining... -
Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies' Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945-1995 by Robert P. Wolensky 9780271084909
Booksplease Price: £106.12By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing... -
This City Now: Glasgow and Its Working Class Past by Ian R Mitchell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This City Now sets out to retrieve the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgows working-class districts. Many who enjoy the fruits of Glasgows recent gentrification... -
The History of the Rochdale Pioneers by George Jacob Holyoake 9781138204720
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99First published in 1893, this tenth edition of The History of the Rochdale Pioneers, is an example of the nineteenth-century tradition of self-help manuals. It describes the origins and the... -
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I: Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892 by Tim Davenport 9781608465484
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £53.10This is the first in a five volume series that will collect much of trade unionist and Socialist Party founding father Eugene V. Debs' work for the first time in a single place. The collection makes... -
Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought 1895–1914 Bernard Semmel 9781032438061
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working... -
Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers by Ian MacDougall 9781910682517
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.94The book explores the rich material contained within a collection of oral history recordings with Peeblesshire textile mill workers, made by Ian MacDougall between 1996 and 2004. Their... -
The Poverty Of Work: Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Marke by David Van Arsdale
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05This chilling look inside the history of employment agencies in the U.S. argues that they should have been abolished with slavery, or at the very least, put under tight government control. Today,... -
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain James E Cronin 9781032865959
Booksplease Price: £110.39First Published in 1982, Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain offers a selection of work on British social history done by scholars working in a distinctly American context. The... -
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain James E Cronin 9781032866529
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19First Published in 1982, Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain offers a selection of work on British social history done by scholars working in a distinctly American context. The... -
Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London, 1843-1913 Jacqueline Riding 9781800818644
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'HARD STREETS is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned' Hallie Rubenhold, author of THE FIVE Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London... -
The Road to Wigan Pier: A Classic Account of Poverty and Social Injustice by George Orwell 9789538569340
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's landmark investigation into poverty, unemployment, and inequality in 1930s Britain. Combining vivid reportage with personal reflection, Orwell exposes the... -
Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike by Gary Kaunonen 9781517902681
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region's, if... -
Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike by Gary Kaunonen 9781517902674
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.19On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region's, if... -
The Devil’S Highway: Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London’s Sailortown, C.1850-1900 Brad Beaven 9781526177926
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social... -
Sanctioning Matrimony: Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands by Sal Acosta 9780816555284
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Marriage, divorce, birth, baptism, and census records are the essential records of a community. Through them we see who marries, who divorces, and how many children are born. Sal Acosta has studied a... -
In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States by Kim Moody 9781608463268
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50In this thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays Kim Moody, one of the world's most authoritative and recognised labour writers, analyses the past, present and future of unions in the... -
The Social Basis of the Female Question by Alexandra Kollontai 9798888904367
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.29The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women's movement and the role... -
The Social Basis of the Female Question by Alexandra Kollontai 9798888903780
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women's movement and the role... -
Swede Hollow: A Novel by Ola Larsmo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.65A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century When Gustaf and Anna Klar and their three children leave Sweden for New...