Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We Live
$15.00 Add to cartDriftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creat
- Author: Kubasta, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1967311765
- Language: English
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Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet
$27.99 Add to cartA scathing expos? of the hidden impact of America’s ultra wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape–as well as a path toward a more equitable future
“The three hundred large- Author: Collins, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979098
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$20.00 Add to cartThe surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems.
In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case- Author: Kearney, Melissa S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022684160X
- Language: English
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What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives.
At 22 years old, Kris- Author: Collier, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538764989
- Language: English
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We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691235341
- Language: English
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The Idea of America: Reflections on Inequality, Democracy, and the Values We Share
$35.00 Add to cartDarren Walker has lived the promise of America.
Born to a single mother in a Louisiana charity hospital, the pride of Head Start and public schools in rural East Texas, Walker serves today as the tent
- Author: Walker, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1394353820
- Language: English
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Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins
$28.95 Add to cartDeath is the great equalizer, but not all deaths are created equal. In recent years, there has been an increased interest and advocacy concerning end-of-life and after-death care. An increasing number… [more below]
- Author: Shea, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978843984
- Language: English
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The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government Statistics Mask the Economic Struggle of Everyday Americans
$28.00 Add to cart“A hard-hitting indictment of the data underpinning federal economic policies.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The Mismeasurement of America reveals, at long last, why public perceptions of the econo
- Author: Ludwig, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311341
- Language: English
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Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
$19.95 Add to cartA deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance
Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing”- Author: Bean, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903735
- Language: English
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Bittersweet Lane: Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
$27.99 Add to cartThe Bitter Reality. The Sweet Solutions. The Lane Forward.
Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works–or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book t- Author: Madden, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991642897
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$12.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110325
- Language: English
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Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
$20.00 Add to cartImagine: You are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it–rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687531
- Language: English
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Human Resources: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“Do not bother to smile/ for your photo ID / in Human Resources. / In Human Resources / no one has a face,” Erin Murphy writes. Yet in this book of documentary poems exploring labor and employment iss
- Author: Murphy, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990747487
- Language: English
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
$29.99 Add to cart‘Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight’ – Tracy Borman, bestselling historian
Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian At eighteen, your life is full of of what-- Author: Loxton, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1035031280
- Language: English
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These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs — And Wrecks — America
$20.99 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Pulitzer Prize—-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious w- Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982191295
- Language: English
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Society of the Spectacle
$12.00 Read moreThe Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its pub… [more below]
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0934868077
- Language: English
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Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)
$32.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLER
If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over.- Author: Posobiec, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1648210856
- Language: English
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Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
$27.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times
A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field“Unjust D
- Author: Jacoby, Melissa B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977869
- Language: English
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Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
$18.00 Add to cart#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fa… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593735153
- Language: English
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Drive: Scraping by in Uber’s America, One Ride at a Time
$24.95 Read moreOne father, 3 years, and thousands of rides
Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad’s darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare driv- Author: Rigsby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007935
- Language: English
