Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Help Wanted
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
After Work: The Politics of Free Time
Health Communism
Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture – A Frank Memoir and Cautionary Tale on Rest, Peace, and Doing Less
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Rednecks
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
Gilded Mountain
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
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
The Jungle
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
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
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughThe Drama of Job by Stephen Finlan
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
852 books — 466 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. Hermans
Ambedkarite
27 books — 5 voters

Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineGirl in Translation by Jean KwokA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettOliver Twist by Charles DickensLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Sweatshops & Child Labor
219 books — 27 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBeloved by Toni Morrison
Childbirth in Fiction
138 books — 23 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettHoles by Louis SacharNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Child Labour
68 books — 26 voters
Triangle by David von DrehleAshes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
58 books — 38 voters


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Adam Smith
“ In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. ”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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