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…
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1. Suvashun
By: None , Simin Daneshvar , Joaquín Rodríguez Vargas
3.95
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Considerada una obra maestra, esta novela supuso el reconocimiento de Simin Daneshvar como una auto… read more
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"عروس روی زین اسب می نشیند تا همیشه بر سر شوهرش سوار باشد."-None, Suvashun
"خدیجه برو حلوای گل زرد بپز... برای گل سرخ من که زرد شده، که خزان کرده..."-None, Suvashun
"گریه نکن خواهرم.در خانه‌ات درختی خواهد رویید و درختهایی در شهرت و بسیار درختان در سرزمینت. و باد پیغام هر درختی را به درخت دیگر خواهد رسانید و درختها از باد خواهند پرسید: در راه که می‌آمدی سحر را ندی…"-None, Suvashun
"کاش دنیا دست زن ها بود. زن ها که زاییده اند یعنی خلق کرده اند و قدر مخلوق خودشان را می دانند. قدر تحمل و حوصله و یکنواختی و برای خود هیچ کاری نتوانستن را. شاید مردها چون هیچ وقت عملا خالق نبوده اند آ…"-None, Suvashun
2. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
By: Thomas G. Andrews
3.94
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mi… read more
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- american history
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- labor
3. دایی جان ناپلئون
By: None , Iraj Pezeshkzad
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, m… read more
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4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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6. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
7. 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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8. Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way
By: Frances Fox Piven
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Americans take for granted that ours is the very model of a democracy. At the core of this belief i… read more
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9. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
By: Seth Rockman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-bo… read more
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- labor
10. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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11. The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
By: None
4.33
Format: 57 pages,
A groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers-eye view of the momentous … read more
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12. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
By: Greg Grandin
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is … read more
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13. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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14. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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15. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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16. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- politics
- american history
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- nonfiction
17. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- politics
- history
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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20. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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21. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
22. 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
23. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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24. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
25. The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
By: Hamilton Nolan
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in … read more
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26. 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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27. The Other Americans
By: Laila Lalami
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more
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"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans
28. Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (The Lamar Series in Western History)
By: Lori A. Flores
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire d… read more
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29. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- labor
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30. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
By: Margot Canaday
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more
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31. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
By: Manu Karuka
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives… read more
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