Labor


I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Help Wanted
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Rednecks
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Gilded Mountain
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
A Protest History of the United States
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. ColemanBread and Roses by Bruce Watson
Bread and Roses
12 books — 2 voters
Triangle by David von DrehleAshes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
58 books — 38 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
843 books — 425 voters
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Art of Raising Children by Professor Ariel EytanThe Coaching Habit  by Michael Bungay StanierIt's Not Burnout It's Betrayal by Lora CheadleThe Chrysalis Caretaker by David P. Smith MD
Books That Inspired #BettingOnYou
33 books — 22 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettHoles by Louis SacharNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Child Labour
67 books — 25 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldMarine Pollution by Judith S. WeisField Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt TsingSlow Down by Kōhei SaitōThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Bluest Book Club
18 books — 2 voters


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Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in ...more
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

Voltaire
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire, Candide

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