Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
By: Steven Greenhouse
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panor…
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1. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
By: Jane Mayer
4.16
Format: 76 pages, ebook
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more
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2. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
By: Jane F. McAlevey
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinkin… read more
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3. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
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4. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
By: Stuart Jeffries
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more
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5. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
By: Tim Wise
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In White Like Me,Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privileg… read more
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6. There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
By: Philip Dray
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from t… read more
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7. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more
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8. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
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9. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By: Sarah Jaffe
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more
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"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
10. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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11. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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12. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
13. Just Us: An American Conversation
By: Claudia Rankine
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more
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"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation
14. A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
By: Jane F. McAlevey
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force c… read more
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"Futility, the tactic union busters use to subtly convince people nothing will change and they should just stay home and not bother voting, is best combatted by having lots of examples at the ready to…"-Jane F. McAlevey, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
15. On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
By: Daisy Pitkin
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor move… read more
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"Anger is powerful, it’s true, but care for one another is, too. And care for one another, unlike anger (or unlike anger for me), is continually renewable — it becomes both an engine for the fight and…"-Daisy Pitkin, On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
16. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
By: Kim Kelly
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more
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17. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
By: Steven Greenhouse
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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18. A History of America in Ten Strikes
By: Erik Loomis
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times "Entertaini… read more
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19. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
By: Melissa Fitzgerald
4.49
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Mel… read more
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20. Labor's Story in the United States
By: Philip Yale Nicholson
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this, the first broad overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson e… read more
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21. Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook
By: Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
4.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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