Recommended Reading

We’ve compiled some of our member’s favourite books on Trade Unions. Please get in touch if you have anything to add.

Fisher, M. (2009). Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative? Winchester: Zero Books.

Gordon-Farleigh, J. (2021). Interview: Peter Hallward. STIRtoACTION. https://www.stirtoaction.com/blog-posts/interview-peter-hallward

Hardy, J. (2021). Nothing to lose but our chains: Work and resistance in twenty-first-century Britain. London: Pluto Press.

Harman, E. & Chomsky, N. (2002). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media. New York: Pantheon Books.

Le Guin, U. (1974). The dispossessed. London: Gollancz.

Livingston, E. (2021). Make bosses pay: Why we need unions. London: Pluto Press.

McAlevey, J. (2018). No shortcuts: Organizing for power in the new guilded age. New York: Oxford University Press.

Tressell, R. (2005). The ragged trousered philanthropists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Zinn, H. (2002). You can’t be neutral on a moving train: A personal history of our times. Boston: Beacon Press.