A History of America in Ten Strikes
By: Erik Loomis
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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1. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
By: Jane F. McAlevey
4.43
Format: 332 pages,
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presid… read more
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- the united states of america
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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. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
4. 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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5. 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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6. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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8. Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
By: Joe Roman
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by ani… read more
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9. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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10. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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11. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
12. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil Wa… read more
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- american history
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13. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
By: Silvia Federici
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more
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"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
14. The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
By: Jake S. Friedman
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years. Soon after the … read more
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- labor
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15. 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
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
“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panor… read more
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18. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
By: Ryan Holiday
3.98
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--t… read more
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19. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
20. 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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21. In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC
By: Ed Yellin
3.69
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
“YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the Ho… read more
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