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  • Big Red Songbook

    250+ IWW Songs!

    by Utah Phillips ...
    Series series Charles H. Kerr Library
    In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union—the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywhere its members went, they sang.Their songs were sung in mining camps and textile mills, hobo jungles and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joe Hill

    The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

    by Franklin Rosemont ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont’s opus ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Class, Race, and Marxism

    by David Roediger ...
    Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Ordinary White

    My Antiracist Education

    by David Roediger ...
    A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolutionWritten by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of the historian and radical American writer, David Roediger.With wry wit and keen observation, Roediger chronicles his intellectual and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Sinking Middle Class

    A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

    by David Roediger ...
    The Sinking Middle Class challenges the “save the middle class” rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. Implicitly white, the middle class becomes viewed as unheard amidst supposed concerns for racial justice and for the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Against Labor

    How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    by Rosemary Feurer, Chad Pearson, Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Dolores E Janiewski, Thomas A Klug, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger0, Robert Woodrum1 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Mothers of Conservatism

    Women and the Postwar Right

    by Michelle M. Nickerson ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of women who developed political styles and practices ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Renegade History of the United States

    by Thaddeus Russell ...
    In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free.In vivid portraits of renegades and their “respectable” ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Last Best Hope

    America in Crisis and Renewal

    by George Packer ...
    One of The New York Times's 100 notable books of 2021"[George Packer's] account of America’s decline into destructive tribalism is always illuminating and often dazzling." —William Galston, The Washington PostAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and dividesIn the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous tim... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Speaker's Book of Quotations, Completely Revised and Updated

    by Henry O. Dormann ...
    FROM THE WORLDS OF BUSINESS, POLITICS, HISTORY, LITERATURE, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MORE . . ."Think how much happier women would be if, instead of endlessly fretting about what the males in their lives are thinking, they could relax, secure in the knowledge that the correct answer is: very little."--DAVE BARRY"I'd tell you what I really thought about the national media, but as my good friend Dana ... Read more

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  • The Thomas Sowell Reader

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authorsThese selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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