Staughton Lynd challenges academics to see American history through eyes of the poor and working class participants in history.

Much has changed for workers in the years since the authors’ Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers was published in 1973. This volume presents interviews with working-class organizaers…

Now in its third edition, a comprehensive compilation of original source documents on the history of nonviolent thought and action in the United States from colonial times to the present.

Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company…

This sequel to Middletown returns to the same community in 1935, to examine the changes brought about by the prosperity of the late 1920s and the subsequent Depression. Preface by…

Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor because its modesty lets it say so much. Short and plainly written, it is also deliberately…

Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around…

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