Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Help Wanted
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Rednecks
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Health Communism
It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
Gilded Mountain
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
After Work: The Politics of Free Time
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
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
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
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonJamestown by Joyce CrawfordHoliday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Zoë FrançoisCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel Farnum
Bread and Roses
14 books — 5 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

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao  WangMaid by Stephanie  Land
Books on Poverty and Inequality
228 books — 155 voters
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
57 books — 38 voters


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Abraham Lincoln
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
Abraham Lincoln

Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in ...more
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

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