The Coca-Cola Company uses outsourcing to drive wages down, shuts down plants for unionizing, fires (and sometimes murders) workers for joining unions, and pays poverty wages wherever it can get away with it.

There is a fundamental conflict of interest between workers and employers. Workers must organize and fight back.

Understanding the history of the Industrial Workers of the World requires taking a global view. The common approach of looking only at the union’s US history, or looking at it only in one country, is inadequate and obscures transnational patterns.

Review of The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward.

Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.

Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.

Review of The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson.

Review of four books on the history of telephone operators in the US.

The Knights of Labor grew to become the largest nineteenth-century labor union in the US after winning a major railroad strike in 1885. It then collapsed due to intense, sometimes violent, opposition from employers and the state.

Review of “The Rise and Repression of Radical Labor” by Daniel Fusfeld

Review of “Brotherhoods of Color” by Eric Arnesen

Review of David Brody’s book on the main themes in the history of American workers.

Overview of academic literature on the history of domestic servants in the US.

Eugene Genovese argues that slaves as a social class laid the foundation for black national culture while enriching US culture. Slave rebellions prior to the late 1700s largely did not seek to do away with the entire slave system, but later slave rebellions were revolutionary attempts to topple slavery.

Workers are not unthinking robots who blindly respond to stimuli.

A history of three union locals in early 1900s Montana. The divergent evolution of each local is explained by class struggle, ethnic strife, and conflicts within the capitalist class.

Bush claims to be combating terrorism while sponsoring it, launched an imperialist war of aggression against Iraq, and is waging a class war in favor of the rich. It is not merely Bush's whim that brings these policies about, but the way American society is set up.

Overview of the 1936 anarchist revolution in Spain, the 1937 counter-revolution, and the civil war in which it occurred.

A history and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into totalitarianism.