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Power to the Workers!

A reading list for The World Transformed

These books doccument the inspiring struggles of labour activists in Britain and across the world

Workers Can Win

Workers Can Win

A Guide to Organising at Work

Paperback

Ian Allinson, Colin Revolting

A nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplace

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Make Bosses Pay

Make Bosses Pay

Why We Need Unions

Paperback

Eve Livingston

Think your union doesn't represent you? Then maybe it's time to change it.
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Nothing to Lose But Our Chains

Nothing to Lose But Our Chains

Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain

Paperback

Jane Hardy

Since capitalism began, British workers have always fought for their rights. Today it's no different.

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The Cost of Free Shipping

The Cost of Free Shipping

Amazon in the Global Economy

Paperback

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese

'Amazon Capitalism' grows ever stronger. This book provides the answers on how to fight the company's terrifying omnipotence.

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Marx and the Robots

Marx and the Robots

Networked Production, AI and Human Labour

Paperback

Florian Butollo, Sabine Nuss, Jan-Peter Herrmann

A wide-ranging, myth-busting and balanced materialist account of an overheated discourse

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Work and the Carceral State

Work and the Carceral State

Paperback

Jon Burnett

The politics of punishment meet labour exploitation in this new analysis

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The Warehouse

The Warehouse

Workers and Robots at Amazon

Paperback

Alessandro Delfanti

Amazon's despotic automation and surveillance technologies may well be its downfall

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Arise

Arise

Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence

Paperback

Jane Holgate

An authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategy

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Power Despite Precarity

Power Despite Precarity

Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education

Paperback

Joe Berry, Helena Worthen

A key organizing tool for casualized higher education faculty from longtime movement activists

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Lost in Work

Lost in Work

Escaping Capitalism

Paperback

Amelia Horgan

How work stole our lives and what we can do about it

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The Truth About Modern Slavery

The Truth About Modern Slavery

Paperback

Emily Kenway

An expert's guide to ending modern slavery

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Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle

Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

Paperback

Robert Ovetz

A major new study looking at the catalysing role of workers' inquiries in the rebirth of a global labour movement from below

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Women and Work

Women and Work

Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction

Paperback

Susan Ferguson

An analysis of the divergent strands of feminism, as the fight for women's emancipation takes centre stage.
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Inhuman Power

Inhuman Power

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

Paperback

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff

An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial Intelligence.
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Monitored

Monitored

Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

Paperback

Peter Bloom

The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them?
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Wages for Housework

Wages for Housework

A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77

Paperback

Louise Toupin

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever
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Choke Points

Choke Points

Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain

Paperback

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Immanuel Ness

These are the stories of the workers who undermine capitalism at its weakest point.

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Managerial Capitalism

Managerial Capitalism

Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production

Paperback

Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy

An innovative Marxist analysis of the new managerial class.
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Wobblies of the World

Wobblies of the World

A Global History of the IWW

Paperback

Peter Cole, David Struthers, Kenyon Zimmer

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
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The Death of Homo Economicus

The Death of Homo Economicus

Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation

Paperback

Peter Fleming

A sharp analysis of the nature of work under late capitalism, revealing the dark side of aspiration and utility
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Just Work?

Just Work?

Migrant Workers' Struggles Today

Paperback

Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo

This global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers.
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Cyber-Proletariat

Cyber-Proletariat

Global Labour in the Digital Vortex

Paperback

Nick Dyer-Witheford

A Marxist analysis revealing the class domination inherent within the computerisation of our society.
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The Mythology of Work

The Mythology of Work

How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself

Paperback

Peter Fleming

How neoliberal society has transformed the nature of work into a pointless ritual.
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Cabin Crew Conflict

Cabin Crew Conflict

The British Airways Dispute 2009-11

Hardcover

Phil Taylor, Sian Moore, Robert Byford, Duncan Holley, Len McCluskey

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