Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos
$29.00 Read moreBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where
- Author: Garcia, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605785
- 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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A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
$28.99 Read moreA revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives–from the New York Times bestselling author… [more below]
- Author: Benforado, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1984823043
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$46.58 Read moreHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194432
- Language: English
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The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
$19.95 Read moreA VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by- Author: Norton, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1804291315
- 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
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
$24.99 Add to cartWhat we think of as liberalism today–the top and bottom coalition we associate with President Obama–began not with Progressivism or the new deal, but rather in the wake of the post-WWI disillusionme… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1594037957
- Language: English
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Black Bourgeoisie
$19.99 Add to cartA classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Fr- Author: Frazier, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832410
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
$17.95 Add to cartA surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as material- Author: Sherman, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191905
- Language: English
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
$18.99 Add to cart“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063038528
- Language: English
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Sea State: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub
A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female
- Author: Lasley, Tabitha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063030845
- Language: English
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You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
$19.95 Add to cart“This is the book to throw at your human resources director–not literally, of course–when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argue
- Author: Rosenfeld, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429548X
- Language: English
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Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World
$19.95 Add to cartThe countercultural healer’s guide for building a sustainable and values-driven practice: work toward your purpose, grow your client base, and thrive with integrity in an unjust capitalist system. The… [more below]
- Author: Northrup, Laura Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1623175992
- Language: English
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The Price of Inequality
$18.95 Add to cartThe top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345068
- Language: English
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Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry
$18.99 Add to cartA “haunting” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even) and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the American underclass it drains for blood and profit.
Jou- Author: McLaughlin, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171979
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
$17.99 Add to cartA “razor-sharp” introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) — and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in… [more below]
- Author: Sunkara, Bhaskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541647106
- Language: English
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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism
$22.95 Add to cartClass, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements.
Bringing forth the
- Author: Zweig, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887440125
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Queer: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartJ.R. Jamison spends his days in a world of trigger warnings and safe spaces, while his trigger-happy dad, Dave, spends his questioning why Americans have become so sensitive. Yet at the height of the
- Author: Jamison, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1734558164
- Language: English
