Labor


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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Rednecks
Work:  A History of How we spend our Time
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
After Work: The Politics of Free Time
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The Factory Witches of Lowell
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
A History of America in Ten Strikes
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
The Jungle
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Das Finanzkapital by Peter DeckerDemokratie. Die perfekte Form bürgerlicher Herrschaft by Peter DeckerDas Proletariat. Die große Karriere der lohnarbeitenden Klass... by Peter DeckerArbeit und Reichtum by Margaret WirthDer Fall Griechenland by Jonas Köper
Gegenstandpunkt (Marxist critique)
70 books — 1 voter
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
104 books — 32 voters

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
56 books — 37 voters

Down Home Gynecology by Marvin JaffeeParthenogenesis by Den PoitrasOn Birth and Madness by Eric RhodeLabor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the... by George Julius EngelmannLotus Birth by Shivam Rachana
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100 books — 1 voter


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Sigmund Freud
If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is glaringly obvious and has always been recognized. It is to be expected that the neglected classes will grudge the favoured ones their privileges and that they will do everything in their to power to rid themselves of their own surplus of privation. Where this is not possible a lasting measure of discontent will obtain within this culture, and this may lead to dangerous outbreak ...more
Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

Abraham Lincoln
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
Abraham Lincoln

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