Labor


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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Someone Builds the Dream
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
The Factory Witches of Lowell
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
A History of America in Ten Strikes
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
The Jungle
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
The Making of the English Working Class
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
The Grapes of Wrath
Strike!
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Weaver's Daughter by Sarah E. LaddMary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Textile Mill Fiction
100 books — 25 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraWork, Health, and Environment by Charles LevensteinTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl Wiggins
Work, Health and Environment
84 books — 40 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBeloved by Toni Morrison
Childbirth in Fiction
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Peggy Vincent
“ Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise. ”
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Leo Tolstoy
“ The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ...more ”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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