Working Class


Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
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
Post Office
A Kestrel for a Knave
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Books for Post-Election Understanding
201 books — 144 voters
Santa Daddy by Keira AndrewsRat Park by Marina VivancosThe Devil's Breath by A. NyboMud & Lace by Jay NorthcoteUnderstanding the Building Construction Process by Leon P. Gander
M/M Blue Collar Books 2019
6 books — 8 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino
How Capitalism Destroys Everything
208 books — 102 voters
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

Dark Skies by David HaldaneBlow Down by J.L. MerrowDavid, Renewed by Diana CoplandDon't Twunk with My Heart by Renae KayeWhen the Dust Settles by Mary Calmes
M/M Blue Collar Books 2016
20 books — 11 voters

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

Barbara Ehrenreich
Middle-class Americans, like myself and my fellow seekers, have been raised with the old-time Protestant expectation that hard work will be rewarded with material comfort and security. This has never been true of the working class, most of which toils away at wages incommensurate with the effort required. And now, the sociologists agree, it is increasingly untrue of the educated middle class that stocks our corporate bureaucracies.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

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