Live Working or Die Fighting
Paul Mason

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Live Working or Die Fighting covers the rise and fall of the global labour movement. It starts with the Peterloo Massacre and ends with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising rediscovering along the way the voices of ordinary people who set out to change their lives and society at the same time. And it sets these stories from the past alongside stories from today: Bolivian tin-miners, Iraqi oil workers, migrant cleaners in London's Canary Wharf.

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

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This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, aims to add a dimension to our understanding of the 19th century. The author shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political conscience of great vitality.

The World Turned Upside Down
Christopher Hill

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Within the English Revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the Protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering "masterless" men, the outbursts of sexual freedom and deliberate blasphemy, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a detailed portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. It is a portrait not of the bourgeois revolution that actually took place but of the impulse towards a far more fundamental overturning of society.

Poll Tax Rebellion
Danny Burns

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The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text and graphics, and drawing on the voices of activists and non-payers it describes the everyday organisation of local anti-poll tax groups, and chronicles the demonstrations and riots leading up to the battle of Trafalgar - showing how the courts were blocked, bailiffs resisted and the Poll Tax destroyed.

Unfinished Business
Class War Federation

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This book comes as a breath of fresh air, inspired by the uprisings and rebellions of people in Britain and around the world. It shows that little has changed in our society since the beginning of the last century. Despite the politicians of the right and left trying to wish us out of existance, our class, the working class, are still here: alive and kicking!

Dynamite
Louis Adamic

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A Century of Class Violence in America1830-1930

The fascinating often-forgotten story of how America's 'working stiffs' were exploited but fought back. An infectious read.

"In giving dynamite to the downtrodden millions of the globe, science has done its best work....."