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Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodKushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline CareyKushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline CareyFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Best Books Involving Sexwork (Fiction and Nonfiction)
402 books — 196 voters
Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoThe Corrosion of Character by Richard SennettClass by Paul FussellThe Perils of "Privilege" by Phoebe Maltz BovyCapitalism for Democrats by Martin Lowy
Nonfiction on class
62 books — 50 voters

The Radium Girls by Kate MooreA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaTriangle by David von DrehleAutobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesWe Just Keep Running the Line by Laguana Gray
Women's Labor Histories
148 books — 35 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

The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodLady's Maid by Margaret ForsterCarnegie's Maid by Marie BenedictThe Royal Nanny by Karen Harper
Servants in Titles
250 books — 30 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
244 books — 21 voters

Room by Emma DonoghueThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
40 Books by Oppressed People
68 books — 15 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBrooklyn by Colm TóibínThe Pink Suit by Nicole Mary KelbyDining Out Around the Solar System by Clare O'BearaSmall Island by Andrea Levy
Immigrant and Migrant Workers
60 books — 13 voters

Killing for Coal by Thomas G. AndrewsThere Is Power in a Union by Philip DrayThe Man Who Never Died by William M. AdlerDeath in the Haymarket by James R. GreenA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
International Holidays: Happy Labor Day!
201 books — 9 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

Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonLyddie by Katherine PatersonSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann RinaldiCounting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
Textile Mills in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
48 books — 7 voters
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonJamestown by Joyce CrawfordHoliday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Zoë FrançoisCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel Farnum
Bread and Roses
14 books — 5 voters

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaMy Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiA Fair System, Probably by Ken MazaikaPatti 209 by K.G. AndersonWe Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Horror in Fiction
69 books — 4 voters
Lakewood by Megan GiddingsWaste by Eugene MartenBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Employees by Olga Ravn
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part I
100 books — 2 voters

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna BervoetsMetal from Heaven by August ClarkeTrust by Hernan DiazLand of Milk and Honey by C Pam ZhangBabel by R.F. Kuang
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part II
100 books — 2 voters
The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIExtreme Makeover by Dan WellsThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3 by Philip K. DickThe Terraformers by Annalee NewitzThe Portable Door by Tom Holt
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
19 books — 1 voter

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