Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Discrimination and Disparities
$30.00 Add to cartAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell’s brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations h… [more below]- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645634
- Language: English
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The Wee Wah Beach Club in Tuxedo Park: An American Story of Social Change
$26.99 Add to cartAmericans have always had a fascination with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Perhaps you have watched “The Gilded Age” series on HBO by Julien Fellows reliving the life of the socially rich and
- Author: McGregor, Stuart J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: January 15, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218259969
- Language: English
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir
A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple- Author: Turner, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107715
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
$19.99 Add to cartThis important book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative” (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional dispar
- Author: Fielding-Singh, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 031642725X
- Language: English
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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back
$19.00 Add to cartA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An eve- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012653
- Language: English
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
$30.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s “Top 10” Spring 2024
This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today,
Amazon’s Best History Book of the Month for February 2024- Author: Montero, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827174
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?
$19.00 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement‘s Book of the Year 2020
A New Statesman‘s Best Book of 2020
A Bloomberg‘s Best Book of 2020
A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020
The world-renowned philosopher and author o- Author: Sandel, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800064
- Language: English
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The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong–And How to Fix It
$29.99 Read more“[Schiller] memorably chronicles why philanthropy is important, how it became flawed and what can be done to transform it for the greater good.” — Tobias Carroll, InsideHook
An attempt to rescue phi- Author: Schiller, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890229
- Language: English
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
$30.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. In- Author: Nolan, Hamilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306830922
- Language: English
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Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
$27.00 Read moreAn expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1
- Author: Baker, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354987
- Language: English
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
$36.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land’s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehr… [more below]- Author: Land, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316505110
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
$21.95 Read moreMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
“My musical, In the H- Author: Carter, Majora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1523000295
- Language: English
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Po
- Author: Mask, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 125013479X
- Language: English
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Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
$19.99 Add to cartNobody who sits in traffic on Sedona, Arizona’s main stretch or stands shoulder-to-shoulder in its many souvenir shops would call it a ghost town.
Neither would anyone renting a room for $2,000 a mon… [more below]- Author: O’Brien, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609699
- Language: English
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
$30.00 Add to cartAn indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it
T- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Jul-23
- ISBN10: 1541701461
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217122
- Language: English
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
$29.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0691222886
- Language: English
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Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
$21.99 Add to cartA deeply-reported examination of why “doing what you love” is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You’re to- Author: Jaffe, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1568589379
- Language: English
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Sweat (TCG Edition)
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play
“Lynn Nottage’s best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it af
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1559365323
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593678540
- Language: English
