Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light
$32.65 Read moreA street-level people’s view of one of the world’s beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris
“Working-class Paris is st- Author: Stangler, Cole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977826
- Language: English
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
$14.00 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Ad- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21, 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538492
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$27.95 Add to cartFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0942299795
- Language: English
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations
- Author: McGhee, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509569
- Language: English
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
$17.95 Add to cartIt’s Robert Kiyosaki’s position that “It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else.” He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-se… [more below]
- Author: Kiyosaki, Robert T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 1612680887
- Language: English
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Finalis- Author: Arsenault, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799686
- Language: English
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On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity
$12.95 Read moreA rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling f
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Thompson, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930724
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities
$30.00 Add to cartAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell’s brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations h… [more below]- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645634
- Language: English
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The Wee Wah Beach Club in Tuxedo Park: An American Story of Social Change
$26.99 Add to cartAmericans have always had a fascination with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Perhaps you have watched “The Gilded Age” series on HBO by Julien Fellows reliving the life of the socially rich and
- Author: McGregor, Stuart J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: January 15, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218259969
- Language: English
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir
A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple- Author: Turner, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107715
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
$19.99 Add to cartThis important book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative” (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional dispar
- Author: Fielding-Singh, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 031642725X
- Language: English
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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back
$19.00 Add to cartA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An eve- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012653
- Language: English
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
$30.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s “Top 10” Spring 2024
This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today,
Amazon’s Best History Book of the Month for February 2024- Author: Montero, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827174
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?
$19.00 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement‘s Book of the Year 2020
A New Statesman‘s Best Book of 2020
A Bloomberg‘s Best Book of 2020
A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020
The world-renowned philosopher and author o- Author: Sandel, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800064
- Language: English
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The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong–And How to Fix It
$29.99 Read more“[Schiller] memorably chronicles why philanthropy is important, how it became flawed and what can be done to transform it for the greater good.” — Tobias Carroll, InsideHook
An attempt to rescue phi- Author: Schiller, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890229
- Language: English
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
$30.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. In- Author: Nolan, Hamilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306830922
- Language: English
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Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
$27.00 Read moreAn expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1
- Author: Baker, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354987
- Language: English
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
$36.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land’s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehr… [more below]- Author: Land, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316505110
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
$21.95 Add to cartMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
“My musical, In the H- Author: Carter, Majora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1523000295
- Language: English
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Po
- Author: Mask, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 125013479X
- Language: English
