Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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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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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
$19.95 Read more“This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”–from the foreword by Ralph Nader
American monopolies dominate, control, and cons- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1523087730
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$49.92 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691168652
- Language: English
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The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders
$12.95 Add to cartLeo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Stephen Maher provide a newly updated and expanded primer for twenty-first century democratic socialists. The Socialist Challenge Today presents an essential historical, t
- Author: Panitch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1642591289
- 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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The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
$16.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent step… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0316414212
- Language: English
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
$19.00 Add to cartAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
Democracy see- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849306
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- 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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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
$21.99 Add to cartA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich.
One of Barbara Ehrenreich’s most classic and prophetic… [more below]- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1455543756
- Language: English
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How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
$19.99 Add to cartA lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns
In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial an- Series: Activist Citizens’ Library
- Author: Lakey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1612197531
- Language: English
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
$24.00 Add to cart“That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feel… [more below]
- Author: Chua, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126350
- Language: English
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Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World
$18.99 Read moreWhen privileged parents say that they “want what’s best” for their child, they don’t consciously add “and not for other children.”
Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pur- Author: Jaffe, Sarah W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 164160767X
- Language: English
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
$18.95 Add to cartAn inside look at how one of the country’s most elite private schools prepares its students for success
As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Ham- Author: Khan, Shamus Rahman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0691229201
- Language: English
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Understanding and Combating Racism: My Path from Oblivious American to Evolving Activist
$14.99 Add to cartEducated but untaught, involved but unknowing, Catholic but spiritually reserved, white but unwittingly blinded by the ubiquitous whiteness surrounding him. These are some of the many storylines W.E.
- Author: Wynne, W. E. (Bill)
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 24 2021
- ISBN10: 195508811X
- Language: English
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
$17.00 Add to cartIn this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must–and how we can–make the world safer, fairer,… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982171871
- Language: English
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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
$15.00 Read moreA Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.
- Author: Collective, Debt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592625
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World
$12.00 Read moreIn the 1960s and ’70s, class struggle surged in U.S. industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in dif… [more below]
- Author: Ignatiev, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860003
- Language: English
