Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
$13.95 Read moreThis, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Engels, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555885
- Language: English
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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone–including themselves. … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982114193
- Language: English
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
$15.99 Add to cart“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenc- Author: Servon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745708
- Language: English
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Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartA new, inclusive union movement with a contemporary vision and an eye toward building social and economic power can remake society.
Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the… [more below]
- Author: Wetzel, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354707
- Language: English
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Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More
$22.95 Add to cartEconomist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy.
The fac
- Author: Larson, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900857
- Language: English
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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.
“I’ll be shocked if t- Author: Murray, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2013
- ISBN10: 030745343X
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
$19.95 Read more“This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”–from the foreword by Ralph Nader
American monopolies dominate, control, and cons- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1523087730
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$49.92 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691168652
- Language: English
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
$21.99 Add to cartA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich.
One of Barbara Ehrenreich’s most classic and prophetic… [more below]- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1455543756
- Language: English
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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
$15.00 Read moreA Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.
- Author: Collective, Debt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592625
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$19.95 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227055
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About
$31.58 Add to cartDream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institut
- Author: Reeves, Richard V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0815734484
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$46.58 Add to cartA revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0691176671
- Language: English
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Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity
$15.99 Add to cartFacing Eviction and Housing Insecurity includes the voices of over fifty men, women, and children who have experienced or witnessed housing injustice. The stories follow the lives of adults and childr
- Author: Rowell, Katherine R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096131
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
$19.95 Add to cartAn expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism’s origins–“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)
How did the dynamic eco- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1786630680
- Language: English
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
$18.99 Add to cart“Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age,” (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she… [more below]- Author: Guendelsberger, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509019
- Language: English
