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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America

by Barbara Ehrenreich



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Best Democratic Left Books of 2005-2006

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips

America: Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
by Gar Alperovitz

The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner

The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation about the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America
by Ellen Frank

Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
by Howard Karger

If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development
by Josiah Bartlett Lambert

Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
by Stanley Aronowitz

Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U. S.
by Ronald Hayduk

New Culture of Capitalism
by Richard Sennett

With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right
by Esther Kaplan

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
by Russell Jacoby

Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below
by Vanessa Tait

Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements
by Dan Clawson

Immigrants, Unions, and the U. S. Labor Market
by Immanuel Ness

Unfair Advantage
by Lance Compa

Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U. S. /Mexico Border
by David Bacon

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein



At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
by Taylor Branch

The Intellectuals and the Flag
by Todd Gitlin

Inequality Matters
by James Lardner

Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity
by Chuck Collins & Felice Yeskel

Contours of Descent: U. S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity
by Robert Pollin

Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer

Arguing about War
by Michael Walzer

Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
by Kathleen Cushman & Christian Parenti

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss

Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy
by Stephen Eric Bronner

The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
by Mike Rose

Class Matters
by The New York Times

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson

Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World ISBN by Paul Buhle & Nicole Schulman, eds.

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by James Green

People's History of the Civil War: Struggles to Expand American Freedom
by David Williams

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
by Eric Foner& Joshua Brown

A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin

Port Huron Statement by Tom Hayden

 

 

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