Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
$30.00 Read moreAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US.
Is there a single change that could- Author: Williams, Joan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250368960
- Language: English
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Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
$32.00 Add to cartHow a new class-based approach to college admissions can produce economic and racial diversity alike– and greater fairness.
For decades America’s colleges and universities have been working to incre- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704231
- Language: English
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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope
“Powerful . . . McCau- Author: McCaulley, Esau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 059324110X
- Language: English
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Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire
$29.99 Read moreBillionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.
They represent a scourge of economic inequality, but h
- Author: Rhodes, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1529239109
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
$19.95 Add to cartArundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi’s views on race, caste and imperialism.
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 160846797X
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
$29.99 Add to cartA deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines–in the … [more below]
- Author: Bonhomme, Edna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1982197838
- Language: English
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Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass
$30.00 Add to cartIn a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America’s racial and income inequality and the devastating … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1982197420
- Language: English
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
$32.00 Add to cartHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods–with good schools and good housing–are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t- Author: Appelbaum, Yoni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593449290
- Language: English
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$18.99 Add to cartAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063028018
- Language: English
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Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
$29.99 Add to cartAn urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.
College costs more today than ever and is wor
- Author: Liebenthal, Ryann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0358353963
- Language: English
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
$23.99 Add to cart“The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade.” –Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A bestselling economist’s history of inequality an… [more below]- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1635424569
- Language: English
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We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
$35.00 Add to cartHow a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status–without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged
Society has never been more egalitarian–in theory. Prejudi- Author: Al-Gharbi, Musa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0691232601
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$22.00 Add to cartHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064943
- Language: English
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
$13.95 Add to cartThis, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Engels, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555885
- Language: English
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Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster of Who Owns What, Who Makes How Much, and Who Works Where
$24.99 Read moreThe must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom
Generations of
- Author: Rose, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977400
- Language: English
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The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
$22.95 Read moreFor decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defence Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide trilli… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 150954349X
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
$16.95 Read moreAre multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expres- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Phillips, Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 178663516X
- Language: English
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Naturaleza, Cultura Y Desigualdades
$13.95 Read moreA comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the pe… [more below]
- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 8433921797
- Language: Spanish
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65 Read moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
