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Private Government

de Elizabeth S. Anderson • 2017

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

3.94

500+

🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

Private Government

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

de Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 216 pagini

3.94

500+ evaluări

🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

Work Won't Love You Back

de Sarah Jaffe • 2021

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

3.94

5.000+

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

Work Won't Love You Back

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

de Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 pagini

3.94

5.000+ evaluări

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

The Hamlet Fire

de Bryant Simon • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

4.12

245

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

The Hamlet Fire

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

de Bryant Simon 2020 302 pagini

4.12

245 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

Christ in Concrete

de Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

1.000+

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Christ in Concrete

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

de Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pagini

3.76

1.000+ evaluări

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Black Folk

de Blair L.M. Kelley • 2023

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

4.49

417

🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

Black Folk

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

de Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 pagini

4.49

417 evaluări

🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

The Fight in the Fields

de Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

de Susan Ferriss 1997 352 pagini

4.00

99 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Wages of Whiteness

de David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

3.99

2.000+

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

de David R. Roediger 1991 197 pagini

3.99

2.000+ evaluări

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

Outclassed

de Joan C. Williams • 2025

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

4.20

248

👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Outclassed

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

de Joan C. Williams 2025 368 pagini

4.20

248 evaluări

👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Why David Sometimes Wins

de Marshall Ganz • 2008

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

3.99

177

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Why David Sometimes Wins

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

de Marshall Ganz 2008 368 pagini

3.99

177 evaluări

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Making of the English Working Class

de E.P. Thompson • 1963

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

4.21

3.000+

📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Making of the English Working Class

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

de E.P. Thompson 1963 848 pagini

4.21

3.000+ evaluări

📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Indispensable Enemy

de Alexander Saxton • 1971

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

3.88

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✊ Labor Solidarity

The Indispensable Enemy

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

de Alexander Saxton 1971 293 pagini

3.88

42 evaluări

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✊ Labor Solidarity

America's Social Arsonist

de Gabriel Thompson • 2016

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

4.54

🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement 🇲🇽 Chicano History 🤝 Relational Organizing

America's Social Arsonist

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

de Gabriel Thompson 2016 294 pagini

4.54

50 evaluări

🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement 🇲🇽 Chicano History 🤝 Relational Organizing

The Age of Acquiescence

de Steve Fraser • 2015

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

3.82

454

✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Age of Acquiescence

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

de Steve Fraser 2015 480 pagini

3.82

454 evaluări

✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

It Didn't Happen Here

de Seymour Martin Lipset • 2000

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

3.60

105

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

It Didn't Happen Here

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

de Seymour Martin Lipset 2000 374 pagini

3.60

105 evaluări

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

Slave Country

de Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

3.73

169

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Slave Country

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

de Adam Rothman 2005 312 pagini

3.73

169 evaluări

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

The Fall of the House of Labor

de David Montgomery • 1987

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

3.93

147

📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management 🏭 Working Class Culture 💰 Gilded Age

The Fall of the House of Labor

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

de David Montgomery 1987 508 pagini

3.93

147 evaluări

📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management 🏭 Working Class Culture 💰 Gilded Age

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

de Nelson Lichtenstein • 1995

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

4.04

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

de Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 pagini

4.04

96 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

State of the Union

de Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

3.75

170

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

de Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 pagini

3.75

170 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

Workers on Arrival

de Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

4.20

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Workers on Arrival

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

de Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 pagini

4.20

41 evaluări

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

de William E. Forbath • 1989

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

3.93

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

de William E. Forbath 1989 230 pagini

3.93

46 evaluări

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

Red State Revolt

de Eric Blanc • 2019

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

4.18

454

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

Red State Revolt

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

de Eric Blanc 2019 224 pagini

4.18

454 evaluări

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

The Making of American Exceptionalism

de Kim Voss • 1993

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

3.80

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

The Making of American Exceptionalism

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

de Kim Voss 1993 290 pagini

3.80

10 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

Wobblies and Zapatistas

de Staughton Lynd • 2008

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

3.89

473

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

Wobblies and Zapatistas

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

de Staughton Lynd 2008 288 pagini

3.89

473 evaluări

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

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