This is a teaser preview of one of our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/804050?view=expanded" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radical Reads</a> episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 67-minute episode without ads and support our work at https://www.patreon.com/posts/e113-radical-of-143322722<br /><br />In this episode, we discuss Beverly Silver's pioneering work, <i>Forces of Labour: Workers' Movements and Globalisation Since 1870</i>, a book which was hugely influential on many of us at Working Class History. The book is epic in its breadth (looking at labour unrest around the world and across a long period of time), but also firmly committed to viewing class struggle from the bottom up.<br /><br />But most important about the book is how deeply materialist and methodical it is in how it outlines the concrete conditions that gave space for working-class struggle, and how those struggles forced capital to think of new strategies in order to deal with it. Moreover, in doing so, her book also helps us to think and to strategise about working-class organising today.<br /><br /><b>Listen to the full episode here:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/e113-radical-of-143322722" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">E113: Radical Reads – Forces of Labour</a></li></ul>More information<br /><ul><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780521520775" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Buy </a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780521520775" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Forces of Labour</a> from an independent bookshop (or read it online <a href="https://libcom.org/article/forces-labor-beverly-j-silver" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>)</li><li>Check out our <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/labour-movement?sort_by=best-selling" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">collection of books about labour movement</a> history in our online shop</li><li>See the webpage for this episode at <a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e113-radical-reads-forces-of-labour/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e113-radical-reads-forces-of-labour/</a></li></ul><b>Acknowledgements</b><br /><ul><li>Thanks to our patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands.</li><li>Episode graphic consists of two photos: textile strikers in Paterson, in the US, 1913, courtesy National Parks Gallery, and textile strikers in Egypt, 2007, courtesy Hossam el-Hamalawy <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy</a></li><li>Edited by Jesse French</li><li>Our theme tune is Montaigne’s version of the classic labour movement anthem, ‘Bread and Roses’, performed by Montaigne and Nick Harriott, and mixed by Wave Racer. <a href="https://montaigne.bandcamp.com/track/bread-and-roses" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Download the song here</a>, with all proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians. More from Montaigne: <a href="https://montaignemusic.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/actualmontaigne" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH1Yyx96VGFQVStKxQXRwEg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">YouTube</a></li></ul>
