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

Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register

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

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

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

American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

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

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

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

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

Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass

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

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

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

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

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

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

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

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

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

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

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

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

California, a Slave State (Lamar Series in Western History)

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

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

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

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

Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work

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

It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On

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

The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week

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

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

The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene

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

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“ 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 ”
― Noam Chomsky

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