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Logging Oregon’s Coastal Forests
$24.99 Read moreFor the first 60 years of the 20th century, logging dominated the physical, economic, and social landscape of the Oregon coast. Millions of trees fell to axes and saws. Millions of dollars bought land… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Beach, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160474
- Language: English
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
$19.00 Read more“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes…. Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review
We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wag- Author: Greenhouse, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1101872799
- Language: English
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Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation
$32.52 Read moreComics impresario Harvey Pekar brings to vivid life Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece, with comics by America’s leading illustrators
Ever since Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel’s Working first documen
- Author: Pekar, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1595583211
- Language: English
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Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work
$19.95 Read moreFinalist for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year
***** Let’s create an economy for everyone. Based on extensive research with organizations and companies that are boldly breaking out of business- Author: Rimington, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1989025021
- Language: English
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Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook
$10.00 Add to cartOverworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss?
This guide, based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your coworker… [more below]
- Author: (Ewoc) Emergency Workplace Organizing Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902691
- Language: English
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
$25.00 Add to cartIn Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-co… [more below]
- Author: Lubrano, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0471714399
- Language: English
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Proving Safety: wicked problems, legal risk management and the tyranny of metrics
$24.99 Add to cartOrganisations invest time, money, resources, and personnel into trying to ensure that their workplaces are safe. Very often, the output of all this expenditure is injury rate data, which has, time and… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893421439
- Language: English
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Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900
$22.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.
- Author: Moody, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1608467554
- Language: English
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Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do
$15.99 Add to cartWhat is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover i… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1568586388
- Language: English
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Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
$29.95 Add to cartThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households
Most research on poverty focuses on the damage c- Author: Newman, Katherine S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520379101
- 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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The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA
$24.95 Add to cart2020 Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Books Selection
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite- Author: Mendelsohn, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233107
- 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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Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$29.99 Add to cartThis sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590517970
- Language: English
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Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
$17.99 Read moreA powerfully persuasive and thoroughly entertaining guide to the most effective way to un-rig the economy and fix inequality, from America’s wealthiest “class traitors”
The vast majority of Americans–
- Author: Pearl, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976269
- Language: English
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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
$31.18 Add to cartManagement & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make- Author: Schor, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 520325052
- 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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Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life In Organizing
$20.00 Add to cartPlaying Bigger Than You Are: A Life In Organizing is the fascinating and compelling story of a man’s determination to empower everyday Americans in their communities and workplaces. We meet people fro
- Author: Acuff, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798869030702
- Language: English
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The Making of the English Working Class
$27.00 Add to cartA seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and ar- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703227
- Language: English
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
$21.95 Add to cartIn an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
- Author: Fogel, Robert William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393312186
- Language: English
