Jeremy Brecher is an historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements.
His notable literary works include Cornwall in Pictures: A Visual reminiscence, 1868-1941, which was favourably reviewed by the New York Times; and Global Village or Global Pillage?, written with Tim Costello.
His notable documentary works include Global Village or Global Pillage? which received the Gold Special Jury Award at The Houston International Film Festival, and Best Documentary Award at the FirstGlance 5 Philadelphia Film and Video Festival, and a 2001 Emmy Award Nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Target Audience Program.
Brecher served as historian for the Naugatuck Valley Project, a community coalition formed in 1986 to confront plant closings and deindustrialization. From 1989 to 2001 he served as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio. From 1991-1995, he was producer, writer, and host of Connecticut Public Radio's Remembering Connecticut.
In 1998, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) hired Brecher to work for him on globalization issues. Together with Sanders staff member Brendan Smith, they developed the Global Sustainable Development Resolution which provided a comprehensive program for transforming the global economy based on the programs of a wide range of public interest organizations and policy analysts. Brecher resigned from Rep. Sanders' staff when Sanders voted to support a resolution authorizing air strikes against Serbia.
The Roots of Roe (1994)
Schools in Black and White (1991)
Rust Valley
The Amistad Revolt (1995)
Electronic Road Film
Brass City Music (1988)
Dance On The Wind (2006)
Between Boston and New York (1992)
As We Tell Our Stories (1994)
Puerto Rican Passages (1995)
African Americans in Connecticut: The Colonial Era To The Civil War (1999)
African Americans in Connecticut: Civil War to Civil RightsWar (2001)
Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm publishers, 2015). ISBN 9781612058207
Strike! Revised: Expanded, and updated edition (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2014) ISBN 9780846703648
Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action (Boulder, CO: Paradigm publishers, 2012) ISBN 9781612050966
Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011) ISBN 9780252036125
In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (Edited with Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith) (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005) ISBN 9780805079692
We Are the Roots: The Organizational Culture of a Home Care Cooperative (with Ruth Glasser), (Davis CA: University of California Center for Cooperatives, 2002)
Cornwall in Pictures: A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941 (Cornwall, CT: Cornwall Historical Society, 2001) ISBN 9781931597005
Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity (with Tim Costello and Brendan Smith) (Cambridge. South End Press, 2000) ISBN 9780896086227
Strike!: Revised and Updated Edition (Boston. South End Press (South End Press Classics Series, 1997)
History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union (Revised Edition) (West Cornwall, CT: Commonwork/Advocate Press, 1996)
Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up (with Tim Costello) (Boston. South End Press, 1994)
Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order (ed, with John Brown Childs and Jill Cutler) (Boston. South End Press, 1993) ISBN 9780896084612
Global Village vs. Global Pillage: A One-World Strategy for Labor (with Tim Costello) (Washington, D.C. International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, 1991) ISBN 978-1-880103-02-9
Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Alliance of Labor and Community (ed., with Tim Costello) (New York. Monthly Review Press, 1990)
History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union New Haven. (Commonwork 1986)
Brass Valley: The Story of Working People's Lives and Struggles in an American Industrial Region (ed., with Jerry Lombardi and Jan Stackhouse) (Philadelphia. Temple University Press, 1982) ISBN 9780877222729
Common Sense for Hard Times (Second Edition) (Washington, D.C./New York. Institute for Policy Studies/Two Continents Publishing Group, 1976 Boston/New York. South End Press/Two Continents Publishing Group, 1977) ISBN 9780896081093
Common Sense for Hard Times (Montreal. Black Rose Press, 1980)
La lotta quotidiane in tempi difficili (Torino. Rosenberg & Sellier, 1979)
Root & Branch: The Rise of the Workers’ Movements (ed., with others) (Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett, 1975)
Le Nouveau Mouvement Ouvrier Americain (ed., with others) (Paris. Spartacus, 1978)
Strike! (San Francisco. Straight Arrow Books, 1972)
Strike! (second edition) (Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett, 1974)
Strike! (third edition) (Boston. South End Press, 1977)
Streiks und Arbeiterrevolten (Frankfurt am Main. Fischer Verlag, 1975)
Sciopero! (Milano. La Salamandra, 1976)
Strike! (Japanese Edition) (Tokyo. Shobun-sha, 1980)
Climate Insurgency: A Strategy For Survival (New York. Paradigm Publishers, 2015)
