Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$18.99 Add to cartAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063028018
- Language: English
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Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
$19.95 Add to cartA manifesto and guide for building mutual aid groups and reclaiming power in a time of perpetual crisis
We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, drought- Author: Greenfield, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1788738357
- Language: English
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The Wages of Peace: How to Confront Economic Inequality and Love Your Neighbor Well
$19.99 Add to cartIt’s getting harder and harder to get by.
Inflation. Stagnant wages. Spiraling costs of living. Even in the world’s wealthiest nation, it is too hard to earn enough money to thrive without a tremendo- Author: Humphreys, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1513813765
- Language: English
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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
$39.95 Read moreFour stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression
Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the G- Author: Frank, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0807046906
- Language: English
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
$23.99 Add to cart“The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade.” –Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A bestselling economist’s history of inequality an… [more below]- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1635424569
- Language: English
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$29.95 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- Language: English
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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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When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the Us Child Protection System
$19.00 Read moreAnalyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
- Author: Lash, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467430
- 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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The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital
$22.00 Add to cartThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, und
- Author: Pérez Orozco, Amaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173199
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- 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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Proudhon’s Sociology
$22.00 Read moreAn introduction to the thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first person to declare themself an anarchist.
Available in English for the first time, Proudhon’s Sociology is the landmark statement on P
- Author: Ansart, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355193
- Language: English
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Free, Fair, and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
$29.99 Read moreThe power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.
From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, pe
- Author: Bollier, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0865719217
- Language: English
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Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community
$18.99 Add to cartWe have seen progress in recent decades toward Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of beloved community. But this is not only because of the activism and sacrifice of a generation of civil rights leaders.
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0830834796
- 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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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
