Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartA new, inclusive union movement with a contemporary vision and an eye toward building social and economic power can remake society.
Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the… [more below]
- Author: Wetzel, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354707
- Language: English
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The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital
$22.00 Add to cartThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, und
- Author: Pérez Orozco, Amaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173199
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More
$22.95 Add to cartEconomist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy.
The fac
- Author: Larson, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900857
- Language: English
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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
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Proudhon’s Sociology
$22.00 Read moreAn introduction to the thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first person to declare themself an anarchist.
Available in English for the first time, Proudhon’s Sociology is the landmark statement on P
- Author: Ansart, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355193
- Language: English
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Free, Fair, and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
$29.99 Read moreThe power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.
From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, pe
- Author: Bollier, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0865719217
- Language: English
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Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community
$18.99 Add to cartWe have seen progress in recent decades toward Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of beloved community. But this is not only because of the activism and sacrifice of a generation of civil rights leaders.
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0830834796
- Language: English
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.
“I’ll be shocked if t- Author: Murray, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2013
- ISBN10: 030745343X
- Language: English
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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong–And Right–About America’s Leading Universities
$28.00 Read moreA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better
“People have lost faith, trust and confidence [in high- Author: Bok, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273606
- Language: English
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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
$31.18 Add to cartManagement & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make- Author: Schor, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 520325052
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
$19.95 Read more“This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”–from the foreword by Ralph Nader
American monopolies dominate, control, and cons- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1523087730
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$49.92 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691168652
- Language: English
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The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders
$12.95 Add to cartLeo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Stephen Maher provide a newly updated and expanded primer for twenty-first century democratic socialists. The Socialist Challenge Today presents an essential historical, t
- Author: Panitch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1642591289
- Language: English
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
$16.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent step… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0316414212
- Language: English
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
$19.00 Add to cartAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
Democracy see- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849306
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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The Making of the English Working Class
$27.00 Read moreA seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and ar- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703227
- Language: English
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How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
$19.99 Add to cartA lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns
In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial an- Series: Activist Citizens’ Library
- Author: Lakey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1612197531
- Language: English
