Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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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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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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99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
$28.00 Add to cartAn enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This- Author: Chandler, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593700570
- Language: English
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Cuba & Angola the War for Free
$10.00 Read moreBeginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist re… [more below]
- Author: Villegas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1604880937
- 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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Jerusalem
$22.60 Add to cart“An instant modern classic” – Daily Telegraph
“One of the most exciting new plays in ages” – New York Times “Jez Butterowrth’s gorgeous, expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictabl- Author: Butterworth, Jez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1559364084
- 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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A Participatory Economy
$22.00 Read moreAs of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological econom… [more below]
- Author: Hahnel, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354847
- Language: English
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What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008
$22.95 Read moreEminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.
While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism a
- Author: Davidson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599158
- Language: English
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What We Build with Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
$17.00 Read moreA historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists
What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to- Author: Sentíes, David Delmar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 080700667X
- Language: English
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Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
$22.99 Add to cartKarl Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics … [more below]
- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190050799
- Language: English
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Good People
$16.95 Read more“As tough as it is tender, and shot through with aching authenticity, Good People is that rare play that is timeless and keyed into a specific moment of American life, without the need to grasp for to… [more below]
- Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1559363932
- Language: English
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Can College Level the Playing Field?: Higher Education in an Unequal Society
$49.92 Read moreWhy higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injustice
We often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one’s background- Author: Baum, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0691171807
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
$19.95 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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A Beautiful Ghetto
$22.95 Read moreOn April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police. Devin Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore uprising bec
- Author: Allen, Devin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1642594563
- Language: English
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Chicago Marching: A History of Protest, Authority & Violence
$23.99 Read moreExamine the inflection points in Chicago’s history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, “protest” can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago’s citizens and city offici… [more below]
- Author: Rulli, Joseph Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151432
- 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 Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
$46.58 Read moreJames Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee – Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists – Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social
- Author: Ewoodzie, Joseph C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691203946
- Language: English
