Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Help Wanted
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Rednecks
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Gilded Mountain
Complaint!
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
No Shortcuts
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
A History of America in Ten Strikes
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
The Jungle
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

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Leo Tolstoy
“ But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“ The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it. ”
― Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

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