15 Best history books like Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by Anne Kim

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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

By: Anne Kim

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”—the myriad businesses that profit …

If you liked the history plot in Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by Anne Kim , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Carter & Lovecraft

By: Jonathan L. Howard

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-… read more

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2. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more

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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

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3. Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

By: Alissa Quart

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with … read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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4. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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6. A Letter to the Luminous Deep

By: Sylvie Cathrall

3.69

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the L… read more

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7. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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8. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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9. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

Similar categories in Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey book and Anne Kim's Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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10. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

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12. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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13. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
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14. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

By: Jonathan Vigliotti

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

By: Abrahm Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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16. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman

17. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

By: Andrea Freeman

4.06

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon o… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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18. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist

By: Jane Rosenberg

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor

By: Anne Kim

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”—the myriad businesses that profit … read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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