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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
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
680 books — 371 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
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

The Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsMomentum by Mo MowlamTony Blair by Tony BlairGladstone by Philip Magnus-AllcroftTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl Wiggins
British Politics & Politicians
144 books — 37 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
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
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)
247 books — 24 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisTeamster Rebellion by Farrell DobbsA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnWorking by Studs TerkelThe Big Red Songbook by Archie Green
Worker's movement
21 books — 21 voters
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May GaskinBirthing from Within by Pam EnglandThe Birth Partner by Penny SimkinSpiritual Midwifery by Ina May GaskinWise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year by Susun S. Weed
Great Books for Doulas
92 books — 20 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
47 books — 7 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
King Mob by Christopher HibbertThimbles by David WisemanReform or Revolution? by Rosa LuxemburgTombland by C.J. SansomHigh Desert Grave Robber by Linda A. Morton
Riotous Assemblies
114 books — 5 voters

Inside a Terrorist Group - The Story of the SNLA by David LeslieRoch Winds by Cailean GallagherJohn Maclean by Henry BellThe Scottish Parliament in its Own Words by Thomas A.W. StewartThe Case for Left Wing Nationalism (12) by Stephen Maxwell
Scottish Politics & Politicians
52 books — 4 voters
Corbyn by Richard SeymourThe Candidate by Alex NunnsComrade Corbyn by Rosa PrinceAfter the Earthquake by Charlie KimberCorbyn by Richard Seymour
Corbyn & Corbynism
9 books — 4 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
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand RussellHistória do PT by Lincoln SeccoPages from a Worker's Life by William Z. FosterThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille (1881-1964) Kuus...Clement Attlee by John Bew
History of left-wing politics
32 books — 3 voters

The Christian Left by Anthony A.J. WilliamsPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightThe Heart Of The World by Charles Monroe SheldonChristian Socialism by John C. Cort
Christian Socialism
17 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

Tea and Solidarity by Mythri JegathesanMore Work For Mother by Ruth Schwartz CowanThe Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women by Kumudini SamuelMaking the Right Choice by Asha L. AbeyasekeraMatrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Feminism, Labour and Work
18 books — 2 voters
Towards a Libertarian Socialism by G.D.H. ColeGuild Socialism Restated by G.D.H. ColeKeir Hardie & the 21st Century Socialist Revival by Pauline BryanHow I Became a Socialist by William MorrisThe State In Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband
British Socialism
15 books — 1 voter

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