Working Class


Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Road to Wigan Pier
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Shuggie Bain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
North and South
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Last Night at the Lobster
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Jungle
A Kestrel for a Knave
La escritora muerta
Post Office
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoSomeplace Else by Ben ShecterThe Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann BradenThe Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
lower class kids
36 books — 4 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Blue Collar Books
192 books — 59 voters

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao  WangMaid by Stephanie  LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
216 books — 114 voters

Virginia Eubanks
[Denial] contorts our physical geography, as we build infrastructure—suburbs, highways, private schools, and prisons—that allow the professional middle-class to actively avoid sharing the lives of poor and working-class people.
Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Rohith S. Katbamna
Their society had been built to fail. Dynasties of power and parties of authority had on retrospect, staged countless renditions of the same play. Granted, an evolution had occurred. But the story unfolded the same way.
Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

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