Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Help Wanted
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Health Communism
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Rednecks
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
Gilded Mountain
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
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
The Jungle
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
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Ambedkarite
27 books — 5 voters
Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineGirl in Translation by Jean KwokA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettOliver Twist by Charles DickensLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Sweatshops & Child Labor
222 books — 30 voters

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
55 books — 7 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
105 books — 32 voters


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Adam Smith
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.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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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