{"product_id":"9781608460700","title":"Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is micro-historical writing at its best.\"—Walden Bello, author of \u003ci\u003eDilemmas of Domination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant.\"—Ken Loach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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. \u003ci\u003eLive Working or Die Fighting\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Mason\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for \u003ci\u003eBBC World News America\u003c\/i\u003e and BBC \u003ci\u003eNewsnight\u003c\/i\u003e . In addition to \u003ci\u003eLive Working or Die Fighting\u003c\/i\u003e , which was shortlisted as a 2007 \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award, Mason is the author of \u003ci\u003eMeltdown: The End of the Age of Greed\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031416488176,"sku":"9781608460700","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608460700_p0.jpg?v=1763836202","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608460700","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}