Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global

This book is a crucial resource for understanding how the working class-- the overwhelming majority of the global population-- has won rights and power in the past, and how it might re-win power in the future. Written by BBC's Newsnight Industrial reporter Paul Mason, the book offers an exciting rejoinder to the too-often dry literature about globalization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mason shows how the modern working class-- the world's working majority-- became a social force through the ferocious transatlantic struggles of French loom-workers, British miners, American auto workers, Chinese miners, and a growing multitude of labor across continents.