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Labour History


Labour History Books

The Making of the English Working Class
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction
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Donald Filtzer
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) (Volume 0)
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (Heritage)
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series)
The Romance of American Communism
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Lists

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie Land
Books on Poverty and Inequality
249 books — 168 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
841 books — 423 voters

FDR by Jean Edward SmithNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterFranklin and Winston by Jon MeachamTraitor to His Class by H.W. Brands
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Reading List (nonfiction)
145 books — 37 voters
On the Line by Rod MickleburghUnion Zindabad! by Donna SacutaThe Company by Stephen R. BownDominion by Stephen R. BownKlondikers by Tim Falconer
Work and Workers in Canada
22 books — 1 voter

I Rode with Morgan by Jonathan M. JacksonI Rode with Morgan by Jonathan JacksonThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoMornings on Horseback by David McCullough
New York State History (nonfiction)
208 books — 44 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
247 books — 24 voters