Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Lane Windham
4.07
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall…
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1. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Brittney Cooper , None
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
By: Judy Yung
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
3. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Out of This Furnace
By: Thomas Bell , David P. Demarest
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of… read more
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5. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
By: David R. Roediger
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson … read more
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7. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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8. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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- american history
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9. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
10. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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- american history
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- nonfiction
11. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more
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- history
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12. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more
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- history
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13. Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Lane Windham
4.07
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall… read more
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- american history
- history
- class
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
14. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
By: Alberto Toscano
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more
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- economics
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15. The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
By: Toni Gilpin
4.63
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic clash between International Harvester and the radical Farm Equipment Workers is vividly co… read more
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- american history
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16. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
By: Patience Essah
3.17
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual dem… read more
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17. Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
By: Hans Kundnani
3.61
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea o… read more
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