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Working Class Books
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 15 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,276 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,318 ratings — published 1937
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,893,498 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,010,497 ratings — published 1939
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 198,021 ratings — published 2020
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,087 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,006 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 186,604 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,601 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,786 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,853 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,385 ratings — published 1906
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,689 ratings — published 1971
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,336 ratings — published 1968
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,797 ratings — published 2018
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.75 — 69 ratings — published 2008
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,955 ratings — published 2001
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,736 ratings — published 1963
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,305 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,150 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,682,682 ratings — published 1945
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,023 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,185 ratings — published 1993
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,354 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.45 — 672,132 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,578 ratings — published 1914
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,649 ratings — published 1959
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,387,077 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,462 ratings — published 1992
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,515 ratings — published 2011
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,296 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,618,111 ratings — published 1948
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 482,846 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,079 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,630 ratings — published 2019
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,808 ratings — published 1994
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,021 ratings — published 2023
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,041 ratings — published 2019
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 887 ratings — published 2016
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,050 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 247,320 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.67 — 392,548 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,531 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 140,211 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.00 — 427,014 ratings — published 2019
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,845 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 263,001 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,022 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,243 ratings — published 2012
A Disaffection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 775 ratings — published 1989
“Embrace dysfunction" this one helps in the workplace!”
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“Invoking the term “working class” instantly draws up images of men in overalls toiling on production lines, and it’s common to hear otherwise intelligent middle-class intellectuals suggest that, with the decline of factory work, the working class in, say, Britain or America no longer exists—as if it were actually ingeniously constructed androids that were driving their buses, trimming their hedges, installing their cables, or changing their grandparents’ bedpans. In fact, there was never a time most workers worked in factories. Even in the days of Karl Marx, or Charles Dickens, working-class neighborhoods housed far more maids, bootblacks, dustmen, cooks, nurses, cabbies, schoolteachers, prostitutes, caretakers, and costermongers than employees in coal mines, textile mills, or iron foundries. Are these former jobs “productive”? In what sense and for whom? Who “produces” a soufflé?”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
