<DIV><p>"This is micro-historical writing at its best."Walden Bello, author of <I>Dilemmas of Domination</I></p> <p>"Don't die stupid. If you haven&rsquo;t read Mason&rsquo;s book, you know nothing about how this planet works . . . breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive. . . . Damn, I wish I&rsquo;d written this book."Greg Palast, author of the <I>New York Times</I> bestseller <I>Armed Madhouse</I></p> <p>"Brilliant."Ken Loach</p> <p>The 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&rsquo;s Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.</p> <p>It 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. <I>Live Working or Die Fighting</I> 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.</p> <p><B>Paul Mason</B> is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for <I>BBC World News America</I> and BBC <I>Newsnight</I>. In addition to <I>Live Working or Die Fighting</I>, which was shortlisted as a 2007 <I>Guardian</I> First Book Award, Mason is the author of <I>Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed</I> (Verso Books).</p></DIV>