Labor


There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Help Wanted
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Gilded Mountain
Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Rednecks
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
Complaint!
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
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
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Coaching Habit  by Michael Bungay StanierIt's Not Burnout It's Betrayal by Lora CheadleThe Chrysalis Caretaker by David P. Smith MDThe Child I Left Behind by Anjalia McGoldrick
Books That Inspired #BettingOnYou
25 books — 14 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldField Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt TsingSlow Down by Kōhei SaitōThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TuftePractice Practice by Ashton Hamm
Bluest Book Club
17 books — 1 voter

Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineGirl in Translation by Jean KwokOliver Twist by Charles DickensLyddie by Katherine PatersonA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sweatshops & Child Labor
219 books — 26 voters


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