union organizing

back to index

358 results

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun  · 14 May 2023  · 217pp  · 61,247 words

Highlander Folk School was initially designed to empower Appalachian rural workers suffering from the Great Depression by teaching them leadership, community building, cultural preservation, and union organizing. The school pursued a democratic model of education: students were encouraged to discuss their own community’s challenges and collectively come up with possible solutions

Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

by Noam Scheiber  · 6 Apr 2026  · 399pp  · 120,332 words

are crying, because they’re ashamed of what they’re doing.” A crowd of a few hundred, who had gathered for the country’s biggest union organizing conference, known as Labor Notes, shrieked and cheered at the thought of managers in tears. If at some point over the past several decades you

point is that I do not believe conflict, division and dissension—which has been a focus of union organizing—benefits Starbucks.” In June, after a New York Times reporter asked if he might ever embrace the union that now represented thousands of his employees

another Activision Blizzard studio in the fall. During the same year, QA testers at a Microsoft-owned studio called Bethesda Games began ramping up their union organizing. Id, where Andrés worked, was owned by the same Microsoft subsidiary, and the campaign soon spread there, too. By the time one of Andrés’s

was obligated to bargain with union stores before granting them new benefits and that it only fired or disciplined workers for violating company policies, not union organizing. But by the middle of 2023, the union had begun to feel like inroads were possible again. Filings for union elections had picked up in

redistribute income upward than any legislation in decades. Still, the first Trump administration was also relatively tough on labor, but it didn’t stamp out union organizing. In retrospect, Trump’s policies created kindling for an explosion of organizing during the pandemic. Trump’s Muslim ban prompted many of the country’s

.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/business/economy/amazon-labor-union.html. reversed a policy that had been critical: Noam Scheiber, “Amazon Is Cracking Down on Union Organizing, Workers Say,” The New York Times, December 8, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/economy/amazon-union-workers.html. ensure safety and

The Insatiable Machine

by Trevor Jackson  · 15 Mar 2026  · 270pp  · 104,133 words

, 55–56, 75–77, 83, 86, 107–8 free wage labor, 23, 27, 109–12, 125–27, 145–46, 149–50, 154, 156–57, 197 union organizing, 122, 198, 227–30 Wall Street bombing, September 1920, 230 wampum, 59 War of the Spanish Succession, 92–93 warfare, 14, 44–46, 51, 60

Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy

by Callum Cant  · 11 Nov 2019  · 196pp  · 55,862 words

finger salute, meaning it looked like the kangaroo (i.e. the worker) was swearing at you. We wanted to link it to the two main unions organizing in Deliveroo, so we approached the IWW and IWGB and asked for their support. They happily gave it. The next step was to set up

future organizing efforts. Their second attempt began to develop the network model, and was premised on a new understanding of the necessary modifications of classical union organizing that need to be made in order to suit it to the context of Deliveroo and other food-delivery platforms. It had significantly more local

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham  · 17 Jan 2020  · 207pp  · 59,298 words

docks, waiting to see if they would be ‘called on’ by a foreman. As Ben Tillett (1910: 8), a dock worker who later became a union organizer, explained: We are driven into a shed, iron-barred from end to end, outside of which a foreman or contractor walks up and down with

Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres

by Jamie Woodcock  · 20 Nov 2016

phenomenon encountered from the outside. As a form of employment it is gendered and considered unskilled, with poor conditions and low pay, while lacking formal union organisation.16 This helps to explain the widespread rejection of work in call centres, something well understood by managers when trying to motivate workers before each

Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

by Emma Griffin  · 10 Jun 2013

reveal that men like themselves were few and far between. So much is certainly clear from Francis Place’s account of his role as a union organiser in late eighteenth-­century London. He (you may recall) had been hired by the carpenters, the journeymen plumbers and ‘several others’ to set up and

Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe

by Denis MacShane  · 14 Jul 2017  · 308pp  · 99,298 words

. Trade union membership slumped as deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s eliminated the majority of jobs in the metal industries, where archetypal working-class trade union organisation was strongest. Women and immigrant workers were more difficult to organise and had different priorities from the classic twentieth-century white male proletariat. Unions gave

The Myth of the Blitz

by Angus Calder  · 28 Jun 2012  · 434pp  · 127,608 words

Coventry, where the aircraft industry expanded rapidly in the late thirties with rearmament, the CP ‘played a leading part in the struggle to establish trade union organisation’ which ‘laid the basis for its central position in the trade union movement during the war’. Its major strongholds were three of the best-organised

Sweden

by Becky Ohlsen  · 19 Jun 2009

now Joe Hill-gården (61 34 25; Nedre Bergsgatan 28; admission free; 10am-3pm Jun-Aug), a museum marking the birthplace of the US labour-union organiser. Hill was wrongly convicted of a murder and executed in Utah in 1915. Some of his poetry forms part of the memorial here. * * * OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm  · 11 Apr 2022  · 172pp  · 50,777 words

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

by Charles Emmerson  · 14 Oct 2019  · 950pp  · 297,713 words

London Review of Books

by London Review of Books  · 14 Dec 2017  · 174pp  · 58,894 words

The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All

by Martin Sandbu  · 15 Jun 2020  · 322pp  · 84,580 words

Corbyn

by Richard Seymour

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

by David Harvey  · 3 Apr 2014  · 464pp  · 116,945 words

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

by James Meek  · 18 Aug 2014  · 232pp  · 77,956 words

Lonely Planet Morocco (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Paul Clammer and Paula Hardy  · 1 Jul 2014  · 2,020pp  · 267,411 words

The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000

by Diarmaid Ferriter  · 15 Jul 2009

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

by Owen Matthews  · 21 Mar 2019  · 589pp  · 162,849 words

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

by Maya Goodfellow  · 5 Nov 2019  · 273pp  · 83,802 words

How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

by Eric Hobsbawm  · 5 Sep 2011  · 621pp  · 157,263 words

Dear Fatty

by Dawn French  · 8 Nov 2011

Croatia

by Anja Mutic and Vesna Maric  · 1 Apr 2013

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged

by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison  · 28 Jan 2019

The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 10 Oct 2018  · 482pp  · 149,351 words

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions

by Jason Hickel  · 3 May 2017  · 332pp  · 106,197 words

Sweden Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work

by Joanna Biggs  · 8 Apr 2015  · 255pp  · 92,719 words

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

by Selina Todd  · 11 Feb 2021  · 598pp  · 150,801 words

Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya

by Nicholas Best  · 9 Aug 2013  · 267pp  · 81,108 words

1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

by Taylor Downing  · 23 Apr 2018  · 400pp  · 121,708 words

What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed

by Robert Skidelsky  · 3 Mar 2020  · 290pp  · 76,216 words

A Little History of Economics

by Niall Kishtainy  · 15 Jan 2017  · 272pp  · 83,798 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery

by Stewart Lansley  · 19 Jan 2012  · 223pp  · 10,010 words

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values

by Sharon Beder  · 30 Sep 2006  · 273pp  · 34,920 words

The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland

by Rory Stewart  · 14 Jul 2016  · 414pp  · 128,962 words

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

Market Forces

by Richard K. Morgan  · 4 Mar 2004  · 547pp  · 148,799 words

Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors

by Edward Niedermeyer  · 14 Sep 2019  · 328pp  · 90,677 words

Ruby by example: concepts and code

by Kevin C. Baird  · 1 Jun 2007  · 309pp  · 65,118 words

The Knowledge Economy

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger  · 19 Mar 2019  · 268pp  · 75,490 words

Lonely Planet Kauai

by Lonely Planet, Adam Karlin and Greg Benchwick  · 18 Sep 2017  · 831pp  · 110,299 words

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

by Nick Bostrom  · 26 Mar 2024  · 547pp  · 173,909 words

When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

by Jim Holt  · 14 May 2018  · 436pp  · 127,642 words

Occupy

by Noam Chomsky  · 2 Jan 1994  · 75pp  · 22,220 words

Discover Kaua'i Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips  · 23 Jun 2015  · 210pp  · 56,667 words

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

by Danielle Ofri  · 31 Mar 2003  · 277pp  · 88,539 words

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

by Hanna Rosin  · 31 Aug 2012  · 320pp  · 96,006 words

Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace  · 13 Jan 2026  · 206pp  · 68,830 words

Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

by Peter Singer  · 3 Mar 2009  · 190pp  · 61,970 words

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman  · 24 Aug 2015  · 786pp  · 195,810 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble  · 8 Jan 2018  · 290pp  · 73,000 words

The Rough Guide to Chile & Easter Island (Travel Guide with Free eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 15 Mar 2023  · 885pp  · 238,165 words

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 1 Jan 2004  · 475pp  · 149,310 words

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante  · 9 Sep 2019

Korea

by Simon Winchester  · 1 Jan 1988  · 350pp  · 112,234 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency

by James Andrew Miller  · 8 Aug 2016  · 790pp  · 253,035 words

For the Win

by Cory Doctorow  · 11 May 2010  · 624pp  · 180,416 words

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom  · 4 Oct 2006  · 218pp  · 44,364 words

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman  · 24 Oct 2011  · 654pp  · 191,864 words

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid

by Franck Frommer  · 6 Oct 2010  · 255pp  · 68,829 words

Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 9 Mar 2000  · 1,015pp  · 170,908 words

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch  · 1 Jan 1978

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

by Paul Gilding  · 28 Mar 2011  · 337pp  · 103,273 words

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

by Paul M. Barrett  · 10 Jan 2012  · 249pp  · 77,027 words

Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend

by Barbara Oakley Phd  · 20 Oct 2008

Masters of Mankind

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Sep 2014

The Rapture of the Nerds

by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross  · 3 Sep 2012  · 311pp  · 94,732 words

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

by Erik Larson  · 14 Jun 2020

The Art of Corporate Success: The Story of Schlumberger

by Ken Auletta  · 28 Sep 2015  · 161pp  · 52,058 words

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back

by Bruce Schneier  · 7 Feb 2023  · 306pp  · 82,909 words

The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T

by Steve Coll  · 12 Jun 2017  · 450pp  · 134,152 words

The the Rough Guide to Turkey

by Rough Guides  · 15 Oct 2023

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden  · 24 Oct 2022  · 392pp  · 114,189 words

The death and life of great American cities

by Jane Jacobs  · 1 Nov 1961

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

by Tamara Draut  · 4 Apr 2016  · 255pp  · 75,172 words

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt  · 14 Apr 2020

The Rough Guide to Brazil

by Rough Guides  · 22 Sep 2018

Sam Walton: Made in America

by Sam Walton and John Huey  · 1 Jan 1992  · 291pp  · 95,468 words

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

by Jono Bacon  · 1 Aug 2009  · 394pp  · 110,352 words

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)

by Louis Hyman  · 3 Jan 2011

The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better

by Annie Leonard  · 22 Feb 2011  · 538pp  · 138,544 words

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 1 Jan 2013  · 353pp  · 81,436 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Social Democratic America

by Lane Kenworthy  · 3 Jan 2014  · 283pp  · 73,093 words

The Complete Novels Of George Orwell

by George Orwell  · 3 Jun 2009  · 1,497pp  · 492,782 words

City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco

by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan  · 15 Feb 2002  · 518pp  · 170,126 words

The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power in the Digital Age

by Simon Head  · 14 Aug 2003  · 242pp  · 245 words

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

by Joyce Appleby  · 22 Dec 2009  · 540pp  · 168,921 words

Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together

by Bruce Schneier  · 14 Feb 2012  · 503pp  · 131,064 words

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman  · 2 Jan 1980  · 376pp  · 118,542 words

Hollow City

by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg  · 1 Jan 2001

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It

by Steven Brill  · 28 May 2018  · 519pp  · 155,332 words

In the Age of the Smart Machine

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 14 Apr 1988

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart  · 25 Jun 2018  · 320pp  · 90,526 words

The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal

by William D. Cohan  · 8 Apr 2014  · 1,061pp  · 341,217 words

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder  · 3 Feb 2015  · 460pp  · 130,053 words

One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution

by Nancy Stout  · 2 Feb 2013  · 519pp  · 160,846 words

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America

by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall  · 1 Jan 1991

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff  · 1 Jan 2005  · 394pp  · 108,215 words

From Peoples into Nations

by John Connelly  · 11 Nov 2019

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

The Rights of the People

by David K. Shipler  · 18 Apr 2011  · 495pp  · 154,046 words

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret Macmillan; Richard Holbrooke; Casey Hampton  · 1 Jan 2001

Stacy Mitchell

by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)

Antisemitism: Here and Now

by Deborah E. Lipstadt  · 29 Jan 2019  · 276pp  · 71,950 words

Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds

by Dominique Mielle  · 6 Sep 2021  · 195pp  · 63,455 words

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen  · 30 Sep 2019

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

by Becky Bond and Zack Exley  · 9 Nov 2016  · 227pp  · 71,675 words

American Foundations: An Investigative History

by Mark Dowie  · 3 Oct 2009  · 410pp  · 115,666 words

Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It

by Vivek Chibber  · 30 Aug 2022  · 128pp  · 41,187 words

Secrets of the Sprakkar

by Eliza Reid  · 15 Jul 2021

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 words

Left Behind

by Paul Collier  · 6 Aug 2024  · 299pp  · 92,766 words

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 3 Oct 2022  · 482pp  · 150,822 words

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston  · 18 Apr 2016  · 338pp  · 92,465 words

Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity

by Robert Albritton  · 31 Mar 2009  · 273pp  · 93,419 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson  · 20 Mar 2012  · 547pp  · 172,226 words

The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

by Duff McDonald  · 24 Apr 2017  · 827pp  · 239,762 words

Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

by Greg Ip  · 12 Oct 2015  · 309pp  · 95,495 words

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg  · 3 Feb 1997  · 582pp  · 160,693 words

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

by Kathi Weeks  · 8 Sep 2011  · 350pp  · 110,764 words

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith  · 19 Nov 2010  · 613pp  · 151,140 words

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer  · 4 Mar 2014  · 559pp  · 169,094 words

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider  · 9 Jan 2009  · 278pp  · 82,069 words

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass

by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri  · 6 May 2019  · 346pp  · 97,330 words

The Cold War: A World History

by Odd Arne Westad  · 4 Sep 2017  · 846pp  · 250,145 words

O Jerusalem

by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre  · 31 Dec 1970  · 784pp  · 229,648 words

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

by Beth Macy  · 14 Jul 2014  · 473pp  · 140,480 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation

by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler  · 14 Sep 2021  · 735pp  · 165,375 words

The Enlightened Capitalists

by James O'Toole  · 29 Dec 2018  · 716pp  · 192,143 words

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

by Howard P. Segal  · 20 May 2012  · 299pp  · 19,560 words

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019

The Road to Character

by David Brooks  · 13 Apr 2015  · 353pp  · 110,919 words

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

by Ruth Kinna  · 31 Jul 2019  · 405pp  · 103,723 words

The London Compendium

by Ed Glinert  · 30 Jun 2004  · 1,088pp  · 297,362 words

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to Our World

by James Miller  · 17 Sep 2018  · 370pp  · 99,312 words

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

by Nick Reding  · 1 Jul 2009  · 250pp  · 83,367 words

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow

by Gil Troy  · 14 Apr 2018  · 649pp  · 185,618 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

by Paul Mason  · 30 Sep 2013  · 357pp  · 99,684 words

Andrew Carnegie

by David Nasaw  · 15 Nov 2007  · 1,230pp  · 357,848 words

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Mar 2009  · 1,037pp  · 294,916 words

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

by Richard Kluger  · 1 Jan 1996  · 1,157pp  · 379,558 words

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell  · 29 May 2017  · 230pp  · 71,320 words

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink

by Michael Blanding  · 14 Jun 2010  · 385pp  · 133,839 words

Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second World War

by Andrew Stewart  · 1 Nov 2008  · 637pp  · 117,453 words

Capitalism and Freedom

by Milton Friedman  · 1 Jan 1962  · 275pp  · 77,955 words

The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class

by Kees Van der Pijl  · 2 Jun 2014  · 572pp  · 134,335 words

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Jun 2009  · 422pp  · 131,666 words

The Enemy Within

by Seumas Milne  · 1 Dec 1994  · 497pp  · 161,742 words

State of Emergency: The Way We Were

by Dominic Sandbrook  · 29 Sep 2010  · 932pp  · 307,785 words

Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

by Costas Lapavitsas  · 14 Aug 2013  · 554pp  · 158,687 words

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky  · 11 Jun 2012  · 537pp  · 99,778 words

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

by Virginia Eubanks  · 1 Feb 2011  · 289pp  · 99,936 words

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow  · 1 Jan 1997  · 1,106pp  · 335,322 words

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way

by Nick Cohen  · 15 Jul 2015  · 414pp  · 121,243 words

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing  · 6 May 2008  · 484pp  · 131,168 words

USA Travel Guide

by Lonely, Planet

Beggars in Spain

by Nancy Kress  · 23 Nov 2004

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

by Noam Chomsky  · 6 Sep 2011

Bureaucracy

by David Graeber  · 3 Feb 2015  · 252pp  · 80,636 words

Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America

by Diana Elizabeth Kendall  · 27 Jul 2005  · 311pp  · 130,761 words

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens  · 11 Mar 2013  · 349pp  · 114,038 words

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

by Elizabeth Becker  · 16 Apr 2013  · 570pp  · 158,139 words

After the Cataclysm

by Noam Chomsky  · 17 Dec 2014

The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990

by Mary Fulbrook  · 14 Oct 1991  · 934pp  · 135,736 words

A People's History of Poverty in America

by Stephen Pimpare  · 11 Nov 2008  · 468pp  · 123,823 words

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins  · 1 Jan 2006  · 497pp  · 123,718 words

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New

by Noam Chomsky  · 7 Apr 2015

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

by Alex Rosenblat  · 22 Oct 2018  · 343pp  · 91,080 words

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

by Sven Beckert  · 2 Dec 2014  · 1,000pp  · 247,974 words

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.  · 15 Jan 1987

The Rough Guide to Chile

by Melissa Graham and Andrew Benson  · 11 May 2003

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall

by Michael Meyer  · 7 Sep 2009  · 323pp  · 95,188 words

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 9 Sep 2019  · 327pp  · 84,627 words

Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels

by Rachel Sherman  · 18 Dec 2006  · 380pp  · 153,701 words

In Defense of Global Capitalism

by Johan Norberg  · 1 Jan 2001  · 233pp  · 75,712 words

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin  · 8 Oct 2012  · 823pp  · 206,070 words

Making Globalization Work

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 16 Sep 2006

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

by Ian Kershaw  · 29 Aug 2018  · 736pp  · 233,366 words

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

by Bhaskar Sunkara  · 1 Feb 2019  · 324pp  · 86,056 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone  · 10 May 2021  · 569pp  · 156,139 words

The Streets Were Paved With Gold

by Ken Auletta  · 14 Jul 1980  · 407pp  · 135,242 words

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell  · 8 Apr 2019  · 243pp  · 76,686 words

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

by Ryan Grim  · 7 Jul 2009  · 334pp  · 93,162 words

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Aug 2020

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

by Michael Lind  · 20 Feb 2020

Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class

by Edward McClelland  · 2 Feb 2021  · 264pp  · 74,785 words

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Sep 2019

We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

by Annelise Orleck  · 27 Feb 2018  · 382pp  · 107,150 words

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

by Leslie Berlin  · 7 Nov 2017  · 615pp  · 168,775 words

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle

by Jamie Woodcock  · 17 Jun 2019  · 236pp  · 62,158 words

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro  · 30 Aug 2021  · 345pp  · 92,063 words

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas

by Janek Wasserman  · 23 Sep 2019  · 470pp  · 130,269 words

Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

by Roger Faligot  · 30 Jun 2019  · 615pp  · 187,426 words

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

by Beth Macy  · 17 Oct 2016  · 398pp  · 112,350 words

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade  · 9 Jan 2024  · 392pp  · 106,044 words

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider  · 15 Dec 2024  · 346pp  · 84,111 words

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides  · 15 Jan 2022

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein  · 11 Sep 2023

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant  · 25 Sep 2023  · 524pp  · 154,652 words

The Rough Guide to Wales

by Rough Guides  · 14 Oct 2024  · 882pp  · 240,215 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani  · 20 Feb 2024  · 262pp  · 69,328 words

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

by Harold James  · 15 Jan 2023  · 469pp  · 137,880 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

by Katja Hoyer  · 5 Apr 2023

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

by Nick Romeo  · 15 Jan 2024  · 343pp  · 103,376 words

The Big Score

by Michael S. Malone  · 20 Jul 2021

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip  · 9 Mar 2021  · 661pp  · 156,009 words

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

by Emily Guendelsberger  · 15 Jul 2019  · 382pp  · 114,537 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

by David Harvey  · 2 Jan 1995  · 318pp  · 85,824 words

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich  · 2 Jan 2003  · 200pp  · 72,182 words

Hard Landing

by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr.  · 1 Jan 1995  · 726pp  · 210,048 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia  · 9 Feb 2021

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

by Gabriel Winant  · 23 Mar 2021  · 563pp  · 136,190 words

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 5 Oct 2015  · 424pp  · 121,425 words

Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration

by Kent E. Calder  · 28 Apr 2019

Who Stole the American Dream?

by Hedrick Smith  · 10 Sep 2012  · 598pp  · 172,137 words

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

by Carl Benedikt Frey  · 17 Jun 2019  · 626pp  · 167,836 words

How the World Works

by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian  · 13 Sep 2011  · 489pp  · 111,305 words

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco  · 7 Apr 2014  · 326pp  · 88,905 words

Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges  · 14 May 2010  · 422pp  · 89,770 words

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

by John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George  · 7 Jan 2014  · 335pp  · 104,850 words

How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky  · 18 Jun 2012  · 279pp  · 87,910 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler  · 12 Nov 2008  · 407pp  · 136,138 words

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker  · 14 Sep 2010  · 602pp  · 120,848 words

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

by Jeff Madrick  · 11 Jun 2012  · 840pp  · 202,245 words

The Wars of Afghanistan

by Peter Tomsen  · 30 May 2011  · 1,118pp  · 309,029 words

Eastern USA

by Lonely Planet

The Defence of the Realm

by Christopher Andrew  · 2 Aug 2010  · 1,744pp  · 458,385 words

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

by Jeff Faux  · 16 May 2012  · 364pp  · 99,613 words

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

by Peter Marshall  · 2 Jan 1992  · 1,327pp  · 360,897 words

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain

by Christian Wolmar  · 1 Mar 2009  · 493pp  · 145,326 words

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein  · 30 Apr 2010  · 497pp  · 143,175 words

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

by Christian Caryl  · 30 Oct 2012  · 780pp  · 168,782 words

Economists and the Powerful

by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas  · 30 Sep 2012  · 261pp  · 103,244 words

The Great Railroad Revolution

by Christian Wolmar  · 9 Jun 2014  · 523pp  · 159,884 words

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

by Timothy Noah  · 23 Apr 2012  · 309pp  · 91,581 words

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

by Thomas Frank  · 5 Aug 2008  · 482pp  · 122,497 words

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It

by Owen Jones  · 3 Sep 2014  · 388pp  · 125,472 words

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right

by George R. Tyler  · 15 Jul 2013  · 772pp  · 203,182 words

Geography of Bliss

by Eric Weiner  · 1 Jan 2008  · 361pp  · 111,500 words

Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right

by Thomas Frank  · 16 Aug 2011  · 261pp  · 64,977 words

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn  · 2 Jan 1977  · 913pp  · 299,770 words

Chomsky on Mis-Education

by Noam Chomsky  · 24 Mar 2000

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

by Neil Irwin  · 4 Apr 2013  · 597pp  · 172,130 words

Necessary Illusions

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Sep 1995

Killing Hope: Us Military and Cia Interventions Since World War 2

by William Blum  · 15 Jan 2003

How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present

by Thomas J. Dilorenzo  · 9 Aug 2004  · 283pp  · 81,163 words

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

by Noam Chomsky  · 24 Oct 2014

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis  · 27 Aug 2001

When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain

by Robert Chesshyre  · 15 Jan 2012  · 434pp  · 150,773 words

Who Rules the World?

by Noam Chomsky

Understanding Power

by Noam Chomsky  · 26 Jul 2010

On Power and Ideology

by Noam Chomsky  · 7 Jul 2015

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason  · 29 Jul 2015  · 378pp  · 110,518 words

Culture of Terrorism

by Noam Chomsky  · 19 Oct 2015

Turning the Tide

by Noam Chomsky  · 14 Sep 2015

Year 501

by Noam Chomsky  · 19 Jan 2016

The Fissured Workplace

by David Weil  · 17 Feb 2014  · 518pp  · 147,036 words

The Chomsky Reader

by Noam Chomsky  · 11 Sep 1987

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Oct 2007

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Nov 2012

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

by Anne Applebaum  · 30 Oct 2012  · 934pp  · 232,651 words

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin  · 9 Jun 2005

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

by Niall Ferguson  · 1 Jan 2002  · 469pp  · 146,487 words

The Great Depression: A Diary

by Benjamin Roth, James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth  · 21 Jul 2009  · 408pp  · 94,311 words

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan  · 15 Oct 2018  · 585pp  · 151,239 words

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum  · 31 Mar 2002

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky  · 23 Apr 2018  · 219pp  · 62,816 words

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

by Selina Todd  · 9 Apr 2014  · 525pp  · 153,356 words

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider  · 14 Aug 2017  · 237pp  · 67,154 words

The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa

by Irene Yuan Sun  · 16 Oct 2017  · 239pp  · 62,311 words

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson  · 6 Sep 2010  · 740pp  · 227,963 words

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

by Rory Cormac  · 14 Jun 2018  · 407pp

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

by Jane F. McAlevey  · 14 Apr 2016  · 423pp  · 92,798 words

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

by Steve Kornacki  · 1 Oct 2018  · 589pp  · 167,680 words

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman  · 27 Feb 2018  · 538pp  · 145,243 words

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century

by Torben Iversen and David Soskice  · 5 Feb 2019  · 550pp  · 124,073 words

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

by Christopher Andrew  · 27 Jun 2018

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

by David Edgerton  · 27 Jun 2018

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski  · 5 Mar 2019  · 202pp  · 62,901 words

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

by Adam Tooze  · 13 Nov 2014  · 1,057pp  · 239,915 words

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

by Sofi Thanhauser  · 25 Jan 2022  · 592pp  · 133,460 words

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

by John Darwin  · 12 Feb 2013

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl  · 7 May 2018  · 491pp  · 77,650 words

The Cigarette: A Political History

by Sarah Milov  · 1 Oct 2019

Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer  · 6 Sep 2021  · 723pp  · 211,892 words

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream

by Alissa Quart  · 14 Mar 2023  · 304pp  · 86,028 words

Economic Dignity

by Gene Sperling  · 14 Sep 2020  · 667pp  · 149,811 words

Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

by Oleg Gordievsky  · 13 Apr 2015  · 438pp  · 146,246 words

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 24 Mar 2020  · 154pp  · 47,880 words

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin  · 18 Dec 2007  · 1,041pp  · 317,136 words

The Emperor's New Road: How China's New Silk Road Is Remaking the World

by Jonathan Hillman  · 28 Sep 2020  · 388pp  · 99,023 words

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins  · 18 May 2020  · 393pp  · 115,178 words

Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

by Serhii Plokhy  · 9 Oct 2017  · 476pp  · 138,420 words

The Sport and Prey of Capitalists

by Linda McQuaig  · 30 Aug 2019  · 263pp  · 79,016 words

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

by Steve Olson  · 28 Jul 2020  · 378pp  · 103,136 words

Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

by Dan Bouk  · 22 Aug 2022  · 424pp  · 123,180 words

Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism

by Rick Wartzman  · 15 Nov 2022  · 215pp  · 69,370 words

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle  · 14 Oct 2022  · 655pp  · 156,367 words

Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice

by Jamie K. McCallum  · 15 Nov 2022  · 349pp  · 99,230 words

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools

by Steven Brill  · 15 Aug 2011  · 559pp  · 161,035 words

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by J. Bradford Delong  · 6 Apr 2020  · 593pp  · 183,240 words

Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity

by Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm  · 18 May 2022

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

by John Fabian Witt  · 14 Oct 2025  · 735pp  · 279,360 words

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau  · 3 Aug 2016  · 586pp  · 160,321 words

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe  · 8 Sep 2011  · 428pp  · 134,832 words

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell  · 31 Dec 1913  · 768pp  · 291,079 words

Red Rabbit

by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick  · 2 Jan 2002

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

by Thomas Geoghegan  · 20 Sep 2011  · 364pp  · 104,697 words

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton  · 15 May 2009  · 391pp  · 22,799 words

World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View

by John Kenneth Galbraith  · 14 May 1994  · 293pp  · 91,412 words

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

by Claire Hartfield  · 1 Jan 2017  · 152pp  · 40,733 words

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

For Profit: A History of Corporations

by William Magnuson  · 8 Nov 2022  · 356pp  · 116,083 words

Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers

by Michael Fabey  · 13 Jun 2022  · 319pp  · 102,839 words

High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline

by Jim Rasenberger  · 15 Mar 2004  · 397pp  · 114,841 words

Great American Railroad Journeys

by Michael Portillo  · 26 Jan 2017

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones  · 15 Jan 2023  · 463pp  · 140,499 words

SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build

by Jonathan Waldman  · 7 Jan 2020  · 277pp  · 91,698 words

No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea

by James Livingston  · 15 Feb 2016  · 90pp  · 27,452 words