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• A History of America in Ten Strikes

  Loomis, Erik,

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  Loomis recounts ten vital worker strikes that everyone needs to know about and how they reveal the real histories behind the stories we tell about America.

• The Weekend Effect

  the Life-changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

  Onstad, Katrina

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  "Onstad follows the trail of people, companies, and countries who are vigilantly protecting their time off for joy, adventure, and most important, purpose."

• The Future of Work

  Robots, AI, and Automation

  West, Darrell M., 1954-

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  "West argues that society needs to rethink the concept of jobs, reconfigure the social contract, move toward a system of lifetime learning, and develop a new kind of politics that can deal with economic dislocations."

• Hell to Pay

  How the Suppression of Wages Is Destroying America

  Lind, Michael, 1962-

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  This is the "story of how bipartisan political and business interests united to smash the bargaining power of American workers and reduce wages" and proposes solutions for returning power to American workers.

• Work

  the Last 1,000 Years

  Komlosy, Andrea,

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  This presents labor history from the 13th century to today, covering how the definition and economics of work have changed and "how unpaid and exploited work is an ignored but vital part of the modern economy."

• Flex

  Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life

  Auerbach, Annie

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  This book explores how many women experience working from home, "including the trickle-down effects, from emotional labor to balancing childcare and education with work," and more.

• The Story of Work

  a New History of Humankind / Jan Lucassen

  Lucassen, Jan,

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  From peasant farmers in early "agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today."

• Overtime

  Why We Need a Shorter Working Week

  Stronge, Will,

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  "This urgent and timely book shows what a shorter working week means in the context of capitalist economies and delves into the history of this idea as well as its political implications."

• Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar

  Stories of Work

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  Short fiction collection from many of our most popular contemporary authors illuminating the diverse meanings of work in American culture today, the future of the American workforce, and its capacity to succeed tomorrow.

• Nickel and Dimed

  on (not) Getting by in America

  Ehrenreich, Barbara,

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  "This work reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity, a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival."

• Disability in the Workplace

  the Politics of Difference

  Breen, Jonathon S.,

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  "Framed within an affect-based understanding of the relationships between those living with impairments and others, this new model offers a reconsideration of the construct of disability itself."

• "We Are All Fast-food Workers Now"

  the Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

  Orleck, Annelise,

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  This book examines "globalization and its costs, as seen through the eyes and told whenever possible through the words of low-wage workers themselves...[It is] a reflection on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up."

• Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

  The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

  Frank, Dana

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  "The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression."

• After Work

  a History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

  Hester, Helen, 1983-

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  "This is a book primarily about housework and childcare, and its omission from most conversations about the future of work, and in particular in discussions about a 'post-work' future."

• Midnight in Vehicle City

  General Motors, Flint and the Strike That Created the Middle Class

  McClelland, Ted,

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  "The story of the forty-four-day Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936-37, which led to the recognition of the United Auto Workers, the union whose wages and benefits set the standard for the 20th Century American middle class."

• Democratizing the Corporation

  the Bicameral Firm and Beyond

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  "Isabelle Ferreras proposes a radical but realistic solution to democratizing the private firm, and twelve experts on corporate behavior consider its viability."

• The Citizen's Share

  Putting Ownership Back Into Democracy

  Blasi, Joseph R.

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  "A compelling argument for broad-based profit sharing and employee ownership in keeping with the economic vision of America's Founders."

• The Edge of Anarchy

  the Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

  Kelly, Jack, 1949-

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  "The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America."

• Employees First, Customers Second

  Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

  Nayar, Vineet

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  "Nayar recounts how he defied conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees."

• The Bootleg Coal Rebellion

  The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925–1942

  Troutman, Mitch

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  This book uncovers the "resistance and resilience among Depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought...to form a union that would safeguard...workers for decades."