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Anti-Work / Anti-Capitalism Reading List
1.
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by:
Sarah Jaffe
3.95 avg rating — 5,176 ratings
2.
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
by:
David Frayne
4.26 avg rating — 623 ratings
2.
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by:
Douglas A. Blackmon
4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
4.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
by:
David Graeber
4.03 avg rating — 32,026 ratings
4.
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
by:
Amelia Horgan
3.89 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
4.
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
by:
David Gelles
4.02 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
7.
Instead of Work
by:
Bob Black
4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
7.
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis
by:
Dean Spade
4.30 avg rating — 5,104 ratings
7.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by:
Edward E. Baptist
4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
10.
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by:
Kathi Weeks
4.16 avg rating — 604 ratings
10.
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
by:
Anne Elizabeth Moore
3.58 avg rating — 673 ratings
10.
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions
by:
Eve Livingston
4.13 avg rating — 150 ratings
13.
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by:
Peter Fleming
3.50 avg rating — 125 ratings
13.
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
by:
Gerald Horne
4.28 avg rating — 176 ratings
13.
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace
by:
Lydia Hughes
4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings
16.
The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation
by:
Peter Fleming
3.58 avg rating — 106 ratings
16.
Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
by:
Tom Wetzel
3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
16.
Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work
by:
Ian Allinson
4.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
19.
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
by:
Bertrand Russell
4.04 avg rating — 7,325 ratings
19.
A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by:
Karin A. Shapiro
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
19.
Our Members Be Unlimited: a comic about workers and their unions
by:
Sam Wallman
4.44 avg rating — 268 ratings
22.
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by:
Tom Lutz
3.41 avg rating — 253 ratings
22.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
by:
Seth Holmes
4.28 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
24.
The Society of the Spectacle
by:
Guy Debord
4.03 avg rating — 22,637 ratings
24.
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
by:
Eyal Press
4.16 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
26.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating — 51,945 ratings
26.
I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923
by:
Industrial Workers of the World
4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
28.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by:
David Graeber
4.21 avg rating — 25,633 ratings
28.
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
by:
Jeremy Gantz
3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
30.
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
by:
Emily Guendelsberger
4.27 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
31.
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
by:
Alex Lichtenstein
3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
32.
Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain
by:
Frank Mintz
3.84 avg rating — 74 ratings
33.
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating — 20,012 ratings
34.
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism
by:
Thomas Frank
4.22 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
35.
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
by:
Tim Wu
4.16 avg rating — 2,281 ratings
36.
Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian—Strategies, Tools, and Models
by:
Bruce E. Levine
4.01 avg rating — 174 ratings
37.
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
by:
Amy Klobuchar
3.70 avg rating — 741 ratings