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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
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4.07 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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4.03 avg rating — 30,705 ratings
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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3.98 avg rating — 7,301 ratings
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Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld
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4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Temporary
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3.75 avg rating — 6,030 ratings
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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4.16 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
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4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
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4.21 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back
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4.19 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
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4.44 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The 1984�1985 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire: If Spirit Alone Won Battles: The Diary of John Lowe
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4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 27)
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4.28 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
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Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
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4.23 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
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4.07 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Marching to the Fault Line: The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain
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3.93 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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4.49 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
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4.33 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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History on Our Side: Wales and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Folklore from the Working Folk of America.
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Class Against Class
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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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4.04 avg rating — 4,662 ratings
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Queen Coal: The Women of the Miners' Strike
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Workers' History of the United States 1948-2020
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success
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3.86 avg rating — 5,747 ratings
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Labor and the Law
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A History of the Irish Working Class:
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4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
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3.60 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work
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3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Days of Hope: The General Strike of 1926
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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3.82 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
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4.16 avg rating — 9,503 ratings
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The General Strike
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3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
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4.06 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech
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4.04 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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3.85 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
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3.94 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
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3.96 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
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4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Molly Maguires (Episodes of Violence in U.S. History, #3)
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3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
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4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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3.68 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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Platform Capitalism
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3.92 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
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4.07 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives
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3.98 avg rating — 771 ratings
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
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4.30 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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Whose Global Village?: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
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3.67 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time
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4.48 avg rating — 65 ratings
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What Work Is: Poems
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4.28 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
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The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
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3.57 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
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3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
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4.16 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream
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3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work
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3.61 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Organizational Culture For Successful Democracy: Participatory Nonprofits That Advance Their Missions, Build Political Community, and Initiate the Evolution of Society
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3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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In Dubious Battle
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3.93 avg rating — 15,419 ratings
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The South at Work: Observations from 1904
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 193,821 ratings
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To Make My Bread (Radical Novel Reconsidered)
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3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,558 ratings
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The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
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3.63 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
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3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
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3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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3.68 avg rating — 181 ratings
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By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Law and the Rise of Capitalism
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3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Bread and Wine
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3.89 avg rating — 3,056 ratings
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AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
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3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Steelwork
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3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Chicago: A Biography
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3.80 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
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3.78 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
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4.18 avg rating — 767 ratings
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American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
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4.28 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
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4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
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4.19 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads―My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
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3.91 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
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3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Stayin� Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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4.11 avg rating — 939 ratings
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (A StoryCorps Book)
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3.92 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
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3.74 avg rating — 554 ratings
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
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3.89 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism
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3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
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3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 958,108 ratings
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The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
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3.79 avg rating — 585 ratings
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