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Private Government

af Elizabeth S. Anderson • 2017

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

3.94

500+

🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom

Private Government

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

af Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 216 sider

3.94

500+ bedømmelser

🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom

Work Won't Love You Back

af Sarah Jaffe • 2021

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

3.94

5.000+

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor

Work Won't Love You Back

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

af Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 sider

3.94

5.000+ bedømmelser

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor

The Hamlet Fire

af Bryant Simon • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

4.12

245

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety

The Hamlet Fire

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

af Bryant Simon 2020 302 sider

4.12

245 bedømmelser

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety

Christ in Concrete

af Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

1.000+

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner

Christ in Concrete

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

af Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 sider

3.76

1.000+ bedømmelser

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner

Black Folk

af Blair L.M. Kelley • 2023

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

4.49

417

🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies

Black Folk

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

af Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 sider

4.49

417 bedømmelser

🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies

The Fight in the Fields

af Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

af Susan Ferriss 1997 352 sider

4.00

99 bedømmelser

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor

The Wages of Whiteness

af David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

3.99

2.000+

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

af David R. Roediger 1991 197 sider

3.99

2.000+ bedømmelser

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity

Outclassed

af Joan C. Williams • 2025

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

4.20

248

👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging

Outclassed

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

af Joan C. Williams 2025 368 sider

4.20

248 bedømmelser

👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging

Why David Sometimes Wins

af Marshall Ganz • 2008

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

3.99

177

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning

Why David Sometimes Wins

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

af Marshall Ganz 2008 368 sider

3.99

177 bedømmelser

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning

The Making of the English Working Class

af E.P. Thompson • 1963

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

4.21

3.000+

📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle

The Making of the English Working Class

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

af E.P. Thompson 1963 848 sider

4.21

3.000+ bedømmelser

📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle

The Indispensable Enemy

af Alexander Saxton • 1971

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

3.88

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism

The Indispensable Enemy

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

af Alexander Saxton 1971 293 sider

3.88

42 bedømmelser

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism

America's Social Arsonist

af Gabriel Thompson • 2016

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

4.54

🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement

America's Social Arsonist

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

af Gabriel Thompson 2016 294 sider

4.54

50 bedømmelser

🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement

The Age of Acquiescence

af Steve Fraser • 2015

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

3.82

454

✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements

The Age of Acquiescence

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

af Steve Fraser 2015 480 sider

3.82

454 bedømmelser

✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements

Slave Country

af Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

3.73

169

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery

Slave Country

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

af Adam Rothman 2005 312 sider

3.73

169 bedømmelser

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery

It Didn't Happen Here

af Seymour Martin Lipset • 2000

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

3.60

105

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History

It Didn't Happen Here

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

af Seymour Martin Lipset 2000 374 sider

3.60

105 bedømmelser

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History

The Fall of the House of Labor

af David Montgomery • 1987

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

3.93

147

📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management

The Fall of the House of Labor

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

af David Montgomery 1987 508 sider

3.93

147 bedømmelser

📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

af Nelson Lichtenstein • 1995

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

4.04

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

af Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 sider

4.04

96 bedømmelser

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy

Red State Revolt

af Eric Blanc • 2019

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

4.18

454

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History

Red State Revolt

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

af Eric Blanc 2019 224 sider

4.18

454 bedømmelser

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History

State of the Union

af Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

3.75

170

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

af Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 sider

3.75

170 bedømmelser

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era

Workers on Arrival

af Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

4.20

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

Workers on Arrival

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

af Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 sider

4.20

41 bedømmelser

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

af William E. Forbath • 1989

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

3.93

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

af William E. Forbath 1989 230 sider

3.93

46 bedømmelser

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America

The Making of American Exceptionalism

af Kim Voss • 1993

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

3.80

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age

The Making of American Exceptionalism

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

af Kim Voss 1993 290 sider

3.80

10 bedømmelser

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age

Wobblies and Zapatistas

af Staughton Lynd • 2008

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

3.89

473

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action

Wobblies and Zapatistas

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

af Staughton Lynd 2008 288 sider

3.89

473 bedømmelser

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action

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