Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Help Wanted
Rednecks
Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Complaint!
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Health Communism
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
No Shortcuts
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
A History of America in Ten Strikes
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
The Jungle
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

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Noam Chomsky
Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ...more
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Leo Tolstoy
The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ...more
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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