| Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global Contributor(s): Mason, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608460703 ISBN-13: 9781608460700 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 331.7 |
| LCCN: 2010019880 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
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