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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,530 ratings 
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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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Sarah Jaffe
3.95 avg rating — 5,174 ratings 5. 
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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Eyal Press
4.16 avg rating — 1,717 ratings 
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The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
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David Frayne
4.26 avg rating — 623 ratings 8. 
Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 11. 
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
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Nathan Schneider
3.96 avg rating — 135 ratings 12. 
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
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Paul Le Blanc
3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings 16. 
The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America
by:
David Rolf
3.70 avg rating — 73 ratings 17. 
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
by:
Richard O. Boyer
3.83 avg rating — 266 ratings 18. 
Inspired! How to Be More Original, Insightful and Productive in Your Work
by:
Marcia Yudkin
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings 19. 
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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Hazel Dickens
4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings 20. 
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
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Kathi Weeks
4.16 avg rating — 604 ratings 
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Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness
by:
Miya Tokumitsu
3.92 avg rating — 493 ratings 
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
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Scott Adams
3.87 avg rating — 9,958 ratings 20. 
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Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle
by:
David Brody
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 28. 
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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Nick Srnicek
3.98 avg rating — 2,512 ratings 28. 
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
by:
Farah Stockman
4.31 avg rating — 1,424 ratings 
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The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers
by:
Scott Adams
3.93 avg rating — 1,830 ratings 28. 
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
by:
Jennifer Sherman
4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings 
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor 4.18 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
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Gavin Mueller
3.95 avg rating — 529 ratings 
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Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
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Paul A. Shackel
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 40. 
The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
by:
Les Leopold
4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings 43. 
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
by:
Melissa Walker
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by:
Harry Braverman
4.30 avg rating — 854 ratings 
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24 Years of Housework...and the Place Is Still a Mess: My Life in Politics
by:
Pat Schroeder
4.17 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions)
by:
Silvia Federici
4.37 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 50. 
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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Maxwell King
3.99 avg rating — 28,007 ratings 52. 
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work 3.83 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States
by:
Ronald D. Cohen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 57. 
The Making of the Madras Working Class
by:
D. Veeraraghavan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 58. 
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
by:
Robert Kegan
3.96 avg rating — 1,335 ratings 58. 
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Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
by:
Paul Jarvis
3.91 avg rating — 5,679 ratings 60. 
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
by:
Venkatesh G. Rao
4.19 avg rating — 827 ratings 
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
by:
Robin Nagle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 704 ratings 
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Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss
by:
Archie Green
1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 68. 
Working Futures: 14 Speculative Stories About The Future Of Work
by:
Mike Masnick
4.19 avg rating — 43 ratings 69. 
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by:
Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating — 5,741 ratings 69. 
I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society
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Robert B. Reich
3.63 avg rating — 108 ratings 
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
3.92 avg rating — 108 ratings 77. 
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The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
by:
Ryan Avent
3.79 avg rating — 587 ratings 
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The Golden Apple: Redefining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce
by:
Mason Donovan
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 81. 
Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement 3.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
82. 
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
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Gina Sheridan
3.73 avg rating — 9,427 ratings 83. 
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
by:
Evelyn Alloy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 85. 
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
by:
William P. Jones
3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings 88. 
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by:
Annelise Orleck
3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings 90. 
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
by:
Jeremy Gantz
3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings 91. 
By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth
by:
Richard Hudelson
3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings 92. 
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
by:
Paul M. Buhle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings 93. 
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
by:
Michael K. Honey
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 94. 
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane 4.27 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by:
Sarah Smarsh
3.76 avg rating — 16,288 ratings 96. 
Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads―My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
by:
Dan Lyons
3.90 avg rating — 2,132 ratings 
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by:
Kathy Peiss
3.82 avg rating — 833 ratings 99. 
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
by:
Bernice Yeung
4.06 avg rating — 300 ratings 100. 
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
by:
Lizabeth Cohen
3.85 avg rating — 1,094 ratings