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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
839 books — 424 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie Land
Books on Poverty and Inequality
237 books — 159 voters

Migrant Crisis by John SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
75 books — 69 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWork, Health, and Environment by Charles LevensteinTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsAt the Point of Production by Charles Levenstein
Work, Health and Environment
98 books — 41 voters

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
57 books — 38 voters
FDR by Jean Edward SmithNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinTraitor to His Class by H.W. BrandsThe Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Reading List (nonfiction)
143 books — 36 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
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
220 books — 28 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
68 books — 26 voters
Upstairs at the White House by J.B. WestThe Residence by Kate Andersen BrowerSpeaking for Myself by Sarah Huckabee SandersAll the Presidents' Pastries by Roland MesnierInside the White House by Ronald Kessler
The Executive Mansion: Life and Work Inside the White House (nonfiction)
91 books — 25 voters

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
31 books — 19 voters
Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminCulture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
Critique of cultural studies from within.
109 books — 18 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
97 books — 12 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean DalyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinThe Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus SchwabPlatform Capitalism by Nick SrnicekShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
Books on Industrial Revolutions
27 books — 12 voters

The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonMy Red Blood by Alix DobkinNaming Names by Victor S. Navasky
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
173 books — 8 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

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaMy Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiPatti 209 by K.G. AndersonA Fair System, Probably by Ken MazaikaThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David Prosser
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Horror in Fiction
72 books — 6 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Ambedkarite
26 books — 5 voters

A Superior Man by Paul YeeThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre BoulleFantasmas del Oriente by Imanol CaneyadaThe Iron Moonhunter (Fifth World Tales) by Kathleen ChangNot in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Chinese and other exploited Railroad Workers in Fiction
16 books — 5 voters
Liberalism by Domenico LosurdoDoughnut Economics by Kate RaworthThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille (1881-1964) Kuus...Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDThe Essential Keynes by John Maynard Keynes
Social Democracy, Economic Theory, etc
56 books — 4 voters

Lakewood by Megan GiddingsWaste by Eugene MartenBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David ProsserGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part I
102 books — 4 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonThe Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Extreme Makeover by Dan WellsThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3 by Philip K. Dick
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
32 books — 4 voters

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna BervoetsMetal from Heaven by August ClarkeGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Trust by Hernan DiazLand of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part II
101 books — 3 voters
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. ColemanThe Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonBread and Roses by Bruce Watson
Bread and Roses
12 books — 2 voters

How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorWomen and Socialism by Sharon SmithMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja MonetUndivided Rights by Loretta J. RossThe Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books 2018 Women's Liberation Reading List
12 books — 2 voters
Das Finanzkapital by Peter DeckerDemokratie. Die perfekte Form bürgerlicher Herrschaft by Peter DeckerDas Proletariat. Die große Karriere der lohnarbeitenden Klass... by Peter DeckerArbeit und Reichtum by Margaret WirthDer Fall Griechenland by Jonas Köper
Gegenstandpunkt (Marxist critique)
72 books — 1 voter

Down Home Gynecology by Marvin JaffeeParthenogenesis by Den PoitrasOn Birth and Madness by Eric RhodeLabor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the... by George Julius EngelmannLotus Birth by Shivam Rachana
•l'OBSTEerTRICkS
100 books — 1 voter
American Coal by Mary Jane AppelPlanting Hope by Philip HoelzelMaine, a Peopled Landscape by Me.) Salt Center for Docume...Greenville Textiles by Kelly Lee OdomThe West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail by Center for Public History a...
Labor photography
38 books — 1 voter

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
Click, Clack, Moo (25th Anniversary Edition) by Doreen CroninRose Spoke Out by Emma Carlson BerneOn Our Way to Oyster Bay by Monica KullingViva's Voice by Raquel DonosoLola Out Loud by Jennifer Torres
Best Children's Books About Labor & Workforce
48 books — 1 voter

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