Labor


Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
Automation and the Future of Work
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight
The Factory Witches of Lowell
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
Urobieni. Reportaże o pracy
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
A History of America in Ten Strikes
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
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
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Ball Four by Jim BoutonA Well-Paid Slave by Brad  SnyderEight Men Out by Eliot AsinofThe Lords of the Realm by John HelyarMoneyball by Michael   Lewis
Baseball: Behind the Diamond
67 books — 9 voters
The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley AronowitzWhy Unions Matter by Michael D. YatesSolidarity Divided by Bill Fletcher Jr."We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" by Annelise OrleckTeacher Unions and Social Justice by Michael  Charney
Unions Present and Future
46 books — 4 voters

Down Home Gynecology by Marvin JaffeeParthenogenesis by Den PoitrasOn Birth & Madness by Eric RhodeReincarnation and Biology by Ian StevensonLabor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the... by George Julius Engelmann
•Proven Lobster-Tricks
103 books — 1 voter

Mama's Little Baby by Dennis BrownWhy Not Me? by Wendy L. BovardFolks Do Get Born by Marie CampbellMama Knows Best by Chrisena ColemanThe Healing Drum by Yaya Diallo
ASDS Recommended Reading List
99 books — 1 voter
The Radium Girls by Kate  MooreTriangle by David von DrehleAutobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesHousehold Workers Unite by Premilla NadasenDemanding Child Care by Natalie M. Fousekis
Women's Labor Histories
144 books — 24 voters


Related Genres

Karl Marx
“ Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation. It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire any ...more ”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. ”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

More quotes...
MBC Doulas Here is my book list. These are some of my favorite books about pregnancy, birth and healing.
20 members, last active 9 years ago
Silent World — A discussion group A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
1,053 members, last active 40 days ago
Marx's Capital Volumes I, II, III (Study Group - 2020 and beyond) We see symptoms of crises all around us, from the immediate "public health" pandemic of COVID19 …more
178 members, last active 5 months ago
Ask Jerry Ash ...August 26, 2013 to September 22, 2013... Jerry is author of Hellraiser — Mother Jones: An Hi…more
6 members, last active 8 years ago
The Borrowed Five
1 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:36PM — 0 people liked it
Aching Knees in Palm Springs
1 chapters — updated Aug 07, 2011 01:17PM — 1 person liked it