Category - Social Science
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest ...
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Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was a...
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—NewsdayAn engaging social history that reveals the critical ...
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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politicsDoes it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding...
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Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body H...
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit societ...
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provokin...
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies o...
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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquie...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist ext...
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Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist ext...
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Demographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When global headlines declared that the world had surpassed 8 billion people, concerns around overpopulation and its impact on our planet escalated...
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Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home eraFree time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfu...
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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it in...
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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it in...
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The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrantsIn The Manufacturing of Job Displacement, Laura Lópe...
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A startling discovery--that job market success after college is largely random--forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dr...
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung diseas...
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmo...
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Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization
PaperbackOriginal price $47.95 - Original price $47.95Original price $47.95$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunne...
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolut...
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