Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay
$28.99 Read moreBetween 1920 and 1950, America saw an unprecedented expansion of wealth and power underwritten by technological innovation, cultural confidence, and victory in war. American elites won World War II, r… [more below]
- Author: Buskirk, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641771747
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
$19.95 Add to cartThis book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Author: Russell, Marta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466868
- Language: English
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After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics–And How to Fix It
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college–the great political and cultural fault line of American life
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award
- Author: Bunch, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063077000
- Language: English
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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
$20.99 Add to cartNow a Washington Post bestseller.
Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-h
- Author: Carney, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062797123
- Language: English
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
$15.00 Read more“Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy.”–Cornel West
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- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462471
- Language: English
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Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
$18.99 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy – Book Riot – Business Insider – BuzzFeed – Daily Nebraskan – Entertainment Weekly – Esquire – Fortune – Harper’s Bazaar – HelloGiggles – LinkedIn… [more below]
- Author: Petersen, Anne Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0358561841
- Language: English
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world–one small change at a time
“A true gift to our movements for justice.”–Michelle Alexander, author- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691224935
- Language: English
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
$21.00 Add to cartGroundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.
“Get your hands on this book.”-Bill- Author: Wilkinson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1608193411
- Language: English
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Six Degrees of Separation: A Play
$15.00 Add to cartIn this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works t… [more below]
- Author: Guare, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0679734813
- Language: English
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the “rigged” systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and h… [more below]
- Author: Reich, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082001
- Language: English
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Systemic Racism 101: A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover how–and why–Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in… [more below]
- Author: Living Cities
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1507216491
- Language: English
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Marx’s Capital Illustrated: An Illustrated Introduction
$15.00 Add to cartThis beginners guide to Capital illustrates the key concepts, humour, and immense vitality to be enjoyed in Marx’s great work.
- Author: Smith, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1608462668
- Language: English
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$28.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1982116366
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$19.99 Add to cart**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
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**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250796644
- Language: English
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The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilde Anderson, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1501195999
- Language: English
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker
The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic Harry Crews grew up as the s- Author: Crews, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0143135333
- Language: English
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On the Line: Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
$16.99 Read more“Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better–or more necessary–time.” –Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland
“A riv- Author: Pitkin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753398
- Language: English
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There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster–Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
$19.99 Add to cartA journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been
- Author: Singer, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982129689
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$29.99 Read more**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
“An
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE**
**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1250796636
- Language: English
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Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
$19.95 Read moreHow social class determines who lands the best jobs
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it i- Author: Rivera, Lauren A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169276
- Language: English
