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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,605 ratings — published 2022
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 842 ratings — published 2010
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,345 ratings — published 2021
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as labor)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,374 ratings — published 2016
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as labor)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,846 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 62 times as labor)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,294 ratings — published 2001
A History of America in Ten Strikes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as labor)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,073 ratings — published 2018
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as labor)
avg rating 4.33 — 914 ratings — published 2020
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by (shelved 47 times as labor)
avg rating 4.44 — 479 ratings — published 2012
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as labor)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,158 ratings — published 1906
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,814 ratings — published 1974
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as labor)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,208 ratings — published 2006
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as labor)
avg rating 4.11 — 988 ratings — published 2010
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as labor)
avg rating 4.29 — 869 ratings — published 1974
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 115 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,692 ratings — published 1963
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,087 ratings — published 1975
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 802 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 3.92 — 142 ratings — published 1987
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as labor)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,346 ratings — published 1990
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 252 ratings — published 1991
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.19 — 264 ratings — published 2006
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.03 — 989,033 ratings — published 1939
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,802 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as labor)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,084 ratings — published 1848
Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.09 — 237 ratings — published
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as labor)
avg rating 4.25 — 445 ratings — published 2022
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 4.04 — 96 ratings — published 1995
In Dubious Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,164 ratings — published 1936
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.75 — 170 ratings — published 2002
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,357 ratings — published 1991
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as labor)
avg rating 3.84 — 273 ratings — published 1955
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.61 — 105 ratings — published
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.33 — 604 ratings — published 2015
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as labor)
avg rating 4.42 — 467 ratings — published 1986
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.18 — 454 ratings — published 2019
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Wildcat)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 59 ratings — published
Why Unions Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as labor)
avg rating 3.87 — 183 ratings — published 1998
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.22 — 432 ratings — published 2024
Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.23 — 73 ratings — published 2011
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.24 — 187 ratings — published 2008
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as labor)
avg rating 4.06 — 456 ratings — published 2005
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 234 ratings — published 2011
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
by (shelved 20 times as labor)
avg rating 3.95 — 836 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 400 ratings — published 1925
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,720 ratings — published 2003
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as labor)
avg rating 3.83 — 275 ratings — published 2000
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,341 ratings — published 2018
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as labor)
avg rating 4.15 — 624 ratings — published 2011
“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.
"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".”
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"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".”
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