Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
$32.50 Add to cartThe politics of grief, in an era marked by loss, shows us how we can find our humanity once more. From one of our most vital and far-seeing social critics.
Our era is one of significant and substantia
- Author: Jaffe, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703499
- Language: English
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Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Read moreThese are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest
A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements–4 s- Author: Lehman-Ewing, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
$30.99 Add to cartIn her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “p… [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Arlie Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976463
- Language: English
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
$25.00 Add to cartIn Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-co… [more below]
- Author: Lubrano, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0471714399
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich
$19.95 Add to cartPopular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and… [more below]
- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1523091630
- Language: English
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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
$29.95 Read more“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” –Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed- Author: Ambedkar, B. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1784783528
- 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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The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class–And How to Rescue Our Future
$19.95 Add to cartAmerica’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author explores the fall of the American Dream and the steps we can take to bring it back.
The widening wealth gap is all t- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1523007281
- Language: English
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Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
$17.99 Add to cartWhat are the lives of America’s richest families really like? Their nannies see it all…
When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns tha
- Author: Kiser, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1728298164
- Language: English
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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a strug- Author: Land, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1982151404
- 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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Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
$19.95 Add to cartA manifesto and guide for building mutual aid groups and reclaiming power in a time of perpetual crisis
We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, drought- Author: Greenfield, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1788738357
- Language: English
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The Wages of Peace: How to Confront Economic Inequality and Love Your Neighbor Well
$19.99 Add to cartIt’s getting harder and harder to get by.
Inflation. Stagnant wages. Spiraling costs of living. Even in the world’s wealthiest nation, it is too hard to earn enough money to thrive without a tremendo- Author: Humphreys, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1513813765
- Language: English
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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
$39.95 Read moreFour stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression
Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the G- Author: Frank, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0807046906
- 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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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$32.00 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- 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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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone–including themselves. … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982114193
- Language: English
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When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the Us Child Protection System
$19.00 Read moreAnalyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.
- Author: Lash, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467430
- Language: English
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
$15.99 Add to cart“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenc- Author: Servon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745708
- Language: English
