📚 Labor Movement

Books with labor movement on their catalogue record, first published between 1867 and 2007, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject labor movement in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,967 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Le droit à la paresse	Paul Lafargue	1893	93
	Time and tide	John Ruskin	1867	62
	Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England	Arnold Toynbee	1884	35
	The workers	Walter Augustus Wyckoff	1897	35
	The town labourer, 1760-1832	John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond	1917	35
	War of the Classes	Jack London	1905	31
	The autobiography of Mother Jones	Mary "Mother" Jones	1925	26
	The uses of literacy	Richard Hoggart	1957	26
	Working	Studs Terkel	1972	26
	Strife	John Galsworthy	1909	23
	The Riverman	Stewart Edward White	1908	22
	Droit à la paresse	Paul Lafargue	1907	21
	Unemployment	Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge Baron	1909	21
	The condition of the working-class in England in 1844	Friedrich Engels	1887	17
	The Wobblies	Patrick Renshaw	1967	15
	A history of American labor	Joseph G. Rayback	1950	14
	Alliance of the working class and the peasantry	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1959	14
	Chronique des Indiens Guayaki	Pierre Clastres	1972	12
	Strike!	Jeremy Brecher	1972	12
	Labouring men	Eric Hobsbawm	1964	11
	Red Barcelona	Angel Smith	2002	11
	The industrial revolution	Arnold Toynbee	1884	10
	Labour in Ireland	Connolly, James	1917	10
	A short history of labour conditions under industrial capitalism	Jürgen Kuczynski	1942	10
	Go Ye and Study the Beehive	Jeannette Rodda	2000	9
	Joe Hill	Franklin Rosemont	2003	9
	Strategy for labor	André Gorz	1967	8
	From the folks who brought you the weekend	Priscilla Murolo	2000	8
	Discordant comrades	Allison Drew	2000	8
	Reigniting the Labor Movement	Gerald Friedman	2007	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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