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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

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

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives

The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions (Outspoken by Pluto)

On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs

The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942

99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene

The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

Our Members Be Unlimited: a comic about workers and their unions

Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home

American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

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

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap – From Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Greenwood Banking and Racial Justice

Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week

Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work

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Quotes Tagged “Labor”

“ He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. ”
― Saint Francis of Assisi

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“ If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is glaringly obvious and has always been recognized. It is to be expected that the neglected classes will grudge the favoured ones their privileges and that they will do everything in their to power to rid themselves of their own surplus of privation. Where this is not possible a lasting measure of discontent will obtain within this culture, and this may lead to dangerous outbreak ...more ”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

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