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The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press Book)
Michael Zweig
Cornell University Press, 2001
Best book on US Social Classes in the last Decade
+ We're all working class....mostly.
+ Taking the power back!
Zweig's book is an empirical and analytical tour de force. In rigorous fashion he outlines the current class structure of the US in terms of power and control in the workplace. He proves the continuing relevance of class analysis in an era when most Americans consider themselves middle class, and ...
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Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change
Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Great Intro to Social Democratic Economics
+ probably the best "alternative" introductory textbook
+ Understanding Capitalism
+ I learned more from this than from a year of economics classes
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The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
Lester C. Thurow, 2001
Eminently Readable, Hardly Revolutionary
This was one of the most readable non-fiction books I've ever come across. It's written in clear effective English and makes its point (mainly through repetition) very well. Thurow has one basic idea - that the American economy was paralysed in the 1970s because of the variety of groups ...
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Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? and Other Questions
Harvey J. Kaye
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
In "Why do Ruling Classes Fear History," and Other Questions , Harvey Kaye shows how our present-day political and economic elites stand in a long line of governing classes which have been eager to declare an end to the making of history.
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
No sugar coated, political correctness here!
+ A People's History of the United States
+ Wow!
+ Peoples History of the United States
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Democracy for the Few
Michael Parenti
Wadsworth Publishing, 2007
Keep an open mind, America!
+ Parenti is brilliant!!
+ Good book
Parenti's work, including this one, are indeed controversial...but that's exactly what I love about Parenti...his work provokes critical thinking on the reader's part...he offers an different view in viewing our political, societal system and history...and no, it's not poorly researched like some ...
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Stephen Kinzer
Times Books, 2007
It Didn't Start With Iraq
+ Essesntial Reading
+ They don't teach this history in US public schools
+ Remote Control
+ Stephen Kinzer. Overthrow.America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Reviewed by: Kristy
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California Politics: The Fault Lines of Power, Wealth, and Diversity
Edgar Kaskla
CQ Press, 2007
California is full of myths and legends, but its political system shouldn't be. In this refreshingly critical take, Edgar Kaskla brings an analysis of power--how it is distributed, how it is used, and to what end--to bear on California's political system and the many troubling issues it currently faces. Starting from the premise that California is in deep crisis politically, economically, ...
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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward
Vintage, 1993
A revealing examination of an insidious system
+ A genuine classic on public welfare and its functions
+ No Flies On Frank
+ Welfare as a Government Tool of Control
+ For anyone who is not afraid of the REAL TRUTH about Welfare
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Labor's Story in the United States
Philip Yale Nicholson
Temple University Press, 2004
Great book
I'm confused by the previous reviewer's comments. This book is perfectly well-written. In fact, I'm reading it for personal interest--not because it was assigned to me for a class--and I still look forward to picking it up. It's actually exciting, to anyone who's interested in the topic.
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American Labor: A Documentary History
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
This comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labor history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history. It charts changes in trade union and managerial practices and integrates the economics and politics of labor history. An impressive array of documents details household as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers, unpaid ...
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What's Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Cornell University Press, 2004
Class is power not money
This collection of essays addresses an often overlooked aspect of American culture: class. The introduction makes a good case that class is really more about power than money, but the other essays do not always pick up on this theme. The essays do cover a lot of ground, so consider it an ...
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Karl Marx: Selected Writings
Karl Marx
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Excellent Selection of Marx's Writings.
+ An excellent collection
+ Wonderful Anthology Of Marx's Theories and Ideas
+ A Great Anthology
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The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
Ray Ginger
Haymarket Books, 2007
The authoritative biography of the best American who ever lived
+ An Amazing Life Story
+ An amazing, in-depth portrait of one of the most eloquent speakers of the socialist movement.
+ Obsessive honesty
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Voices of A People's History of the United States
Seven Stories Press, 2004
A strong intellectual perturbation
+ Voice of A People's History of the United States
+ Howard Zinn's quest
+ You'll learn a few things
+ Incredible Resource
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