Labor

As many of us join and prepare to enter the work world, there is more at stake than a decent salary. We are seeking work…

With In-N-Out Burger, BusinessWeek writer Stacy Perman presents a chronicle of how a family-run California hamburger…

How do we escape from the death spiral of late-stage capitalism? Richard D. Wolff has laid out a vision of how to make…

Ever get a hankering for a little history lesson? With this book, It Happened in Oregon, you'll get some of Oregon's…

An entertaining and informative graphic novel about US consumption and waste, from the perspective of a garbage…

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

In St. Louis, Missouri in 1933, 500 Black women who worked for the Funsten Nut Company mounted a successful strike…

Where do you get your books from? Is it your indie bookstore, a large chain, or an online megacorp squeezing the life…

In this unique and riveting book, authors Bronwen Parker-Rhodes and Emily Dinsdale reveal what goes on behind the scenes…

When Daria Bogdanska first moves to Sweden to puruse an art degree, she finds herself struggling, not prepared for the…

Despite what union-busters would tell you, most of US history can be followed by watching what the unions were up to -…

A graphic novel telling of the Lake Erie tunnel disaster in early-1900s Cleveland. In the story, the project is being…

Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and…

The business book for people who hate business books, Unf*cking Work takes aim at 12 statements that we are told are…

Key economics concepts, condensed but not watered down. Features fundamental ideas, such as the role of money and how…

"We change the world one small step at a time, one flush at a time." A thought-provoking, informational book that offers…

Gaming has become deeply ingrained in our society in the last few decades. Almost every demographic plays video games…

Manual labor is about more than just doing things, it's about teamwork and a relationship between skilled workers and…

In this one of a kind book, author Juniper Fitzgerald combines elements of memoir, sociological theory,…

This book chronicles the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black…

A choose-your-own-adventure style book to help you figure out what career is the best fit - or at least sucks the least.…

A graphic novel adaptation of the novel that shed light on the harsh working conditions among immigrants in Chicago's…

It's one of the biggest fights against injustice you've never even heard about. In 1891, coal companies in eastern…

This practical but very readable guide has sections on all the nuances of working in an office or other more formal…

On February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers didn't clock in, and stayed out of work for six days of nonviolent…

A collection curated by the reporters from The New York Times that center around tips and counsel for how to improve…

It's impossible to escape the grip of Amazon in this day and age. Starting off modestly enough as delivering books…

Sometimes "follow your passion" can feel like crappy advice. Author, Cal Newport feels the same way, arguing that…

Got an idea for a project but you're not sure how to make it work on a practical (and, let's face it, financial) level?…