Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Picador $15.00
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better...
The Coming Jobs War by Gallup Press $24.95
Drawing on 75 years of Gallup studies and his own perspective as the company’s chairman and CEO, Jim Clifton explains why jobs are the new global currency for leaders. More than peace or money or any other good, the business, government, military, city, and village leaders who can create good jobs will own the future.The problem is that leaders don’t know how to create jobs especially in...
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Penguin (Non-Classics) $15.00
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author...
The Conscience of a Conservative by Qualiteri Publishing $1.99
Kindle Edition Special Features: - Complete and unabridged- The original cover art- The original photographs- Linked table of contents- Linked footnotes- Chapter navigation marks- Professionally edited and formattedFrom the dust jacket front flap:"There is more harsh fact and hard sense in this slight book than will emerge from all of the chatter of this year's session of Congress, this year's...
The Path of the Law (Little Books of Wisdom) by Applewood Books $9.95
The Path of the Law is the single most important essay about law ever written. The perfect gift for anyone who ever entered law school, it defines the responsibilities of the legal profession from one of law's greatest practitioners.
The Jungle (The Penguin American Library) by Ronald Gottesman $11.00
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was...
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Spiegel & Grau $16.00
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young...
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by Vintage $16.00
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working...
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by Atlantic Monthly Press $25.00
On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to...
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by The New Press $16.95
Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.... In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller,...