Working Class


Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Road to Wigan Pier
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Shuggie Bain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
North and South
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Last Night at the Lobster
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Jungle
A Kestrel for a Knave
La escritora muerta
Post Office
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Blue Collar Books
192 books — 59 voters

American Coal by Mary Jane AppelPlanting Hope by Philip HoelzelMaine, a Peopled Landscape by Me.) Salt Center for Docume...Greenville Textiles by Kelly Lee OdomThe West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail by Center for Public History a...
Labor photography
38 books — 1 voter
Santa Daddy by Keira AndrewsRat Park by Marina VivancosThe Devil's Breath by A. NyboMud & Lace by Jay NorthcoteTea by Matthew J. Metzger
M/M Blue Collar Books 2019
5 books — 7 voters


Núria Añó
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria Añó

Louis Yako
Death by Starvation or Boredom” Many toil for scraps and cheap wages, surviving one fragile breath at a time— just one more breath... While others, bloated with excess, labor only to escape boredom, pretending they’re saving a world drowning in the greed they created, and the power they refuse to let go. The first walks a tightrope between breath and hunger. The second, cushioned by comfort, drifts closer to spiritual starvation, their soul numbed by excess. And here lies the cruel symmetry— ...more
Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

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