{"id":3978,"date":"2016-12-09T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:17:05","slug":"we-publish-our-first-book-since-2014-and-its-a-great-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"We publish our first book since 2014 &#8211; and it&#8217;s a great one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/strangers\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/atkinsbookcoverimage-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/atkinsbookcoverimage-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/atkinsbookcoverimage.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><strong>We&#8217;re reviving our publications programme with four new books in the pipeline, and that will just take us through the winter. \u00a0This is an ambitious plan and we&#8217;re starting off with a great one, with huge potential interest from the labour movement and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first book of this new season is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/strangers\">The Strangers Among Us: Tales from a Global Migrant Workers Movement<\/a>, edited by Joseph B. Atkins. \u00a0This 136 page book\u00a0offers readers compelling insight from 10 writers around the world (including LabourStart&#8217;s Eric Lee) about migrant workers&#8217; rising consciousness of their rights and ability to assert those rights in a global economy that seems to place all power in the hands of mega-corporations. From tobacco workers in North Carolina to Vietnamese domestic workers in Taiwan and the network of organizations that support them, a movement is emerging that will pose a growing challenge to neoliberal rule. \u00a0The book costs just $9.99 and is available from Amazon and most bookshops.<\/p>\n<p>Order your copies here:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/strangers\"><strong>http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/strangers<\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u00a0And please &#8211; post reviews of the book on Amazon and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spread the word!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re reviving our publications programme with four new books in the pipeline, and that will just take us through the winter. \u00a0This is an ambitious plan and we&#8217;re starting off with a great one, with huge potential interest from the labour movement and others. The first book of this new season is The Strangers Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}