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Private Government Summary
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives
by Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 196 pages
3.97
777 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Work Won't Love You Back Summary
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 pages
3.96
5.1K ratings
Politics
Business
Labor
The Hamlet Fire Summary
The Hamlet Fire
A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
by Bryant Simon 2017 320 pages
4.11
235 ratings
History
American History
Labor
Christ in Concrete Summary
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages
3.76
1.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Why David Sometimes Wins Summary
Why David Sometimes Wins
Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
by Marshall Ganz 2009 368 pages
3.99
175 ratings
History
Labor
Politics
The Fight in the Fields Summary
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
by Susan Ferriss 1997 352 pages
4.00
99 ratings
History
Politics
Labor
A Protest History of the United States Summary
A Protest History of the United States
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025 360 pages
4.2
107 ratings
History
Politics
American History
America's Social Arsonist Summary
America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
by Gabriel Thompson 2016 294 pages
4.55
51 ratings
Labor
History
Politics
The Wages of Whiteness Summary
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
by David R. Roediger 1999 197 pages
3.99
2.4K ratings
History
Race
Politics
Illiberal America Summary
Illiberal America
A History
by Steven Hahn 2024 464 pages
4.18
296 ratings
History
Politics
American History
State of the Union Summary
State of the Union
A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein 2003 352 pages
3.75
170 ratings
History
Labor
Politics
The Indispensable Enemy Summary
The Indispensable Enemy
Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
by Alexander Saxton 1975 293 pages
3.88
41 ratings
History
Labor
Race
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit Summary
The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit
Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 pages
4.04
96 ratings
Labor
History
Biography
The Age of Acquiescence Summary
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
by Steve Fraser 2015 480 pages
3.82
452 ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Making of American Exceptionalism Summary
The Making of American Exceptionalism
The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
by Kim Voss 1994 290 pages
3.8
10 ratings
Labor
History
The Death of Reconstruction Summary
The Death of Reconstruction
Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
by Heather Cox Richardson 2004 336 pages
3.85
106 ratings
History
American History
Politics
Slave Country Summary
Slave Country
American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
by Rothman 2007 312 pages
3.73
169 ratings
History
American History
Labor
It Didn't Happen Here Summary
It Didn't Happen Here
Why Socialism Failed in the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset 2001 374 pages
3.62
104 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement Summary
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
by William E. Forbath 1991 230 pages
3.91
45 ratings
History
Labor
Law
Workers on Arrival Summary
Workers on Arrival
Black Labor in the Making of America
by Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 pages
4.23
40 ratings
History
Labor
Race
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