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1	The Working Poor: Invisible in America more books like this by David K Shipler add to wishlist From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	America America more books like this by Ethan Canin add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "The Palace Thief" comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man's life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do more books like this by Studs Terkel add to wishlist In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe"). see all copies from $2.69! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Empire Falls more books like this by Richard Russo add to wishlist In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the place; Francine Whiting, the wealthy woman who owns it; Jimmy the cop; and Miles's large, eccentric, and often comic extended family. Many plots intertwine as the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition more books like this by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee (Foreword by), Kathleen Degrave (Introduction by) add to wishlist For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.82! \| SVS
6	Working more books like this by Studs Terkel add to wishlist A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sons & Lovers more books like this by D H Lawrence add to wishlist Based very closely on D.H. Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an ill-tempered, unlettered coal miner father who speaks in a broad dialect. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 more books like this by Lizabeth Cohen add to wishlist This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism more books like this by Prof. Richard Sennett add to wishlist Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in New York, bakers in a Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and countless other workers, Sennett studies the effects of the new capitalism throughout the world. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs more books like this by John Bowe (Editor), Marisa Bowe (Editor), Sabin Streeter (Editor) add to wishlist "Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating." -- "USA Today" "The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story of what people bring to their ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $9.45! \| SVS
11 view cover	Work: The World in Photographs more books like this by Ferdinand Protzman add to wishlist National Geographic is pleased to present our new Collector's Series. Each 6" by 6 1/2" gem is a fresh presentation of one of our world-famous photography books. A beautiful gift and lovely to own, in a size you can easily carry and easily afford. Our first volume, "Work: The World in Photographs", showcases this most universal human pastime ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.51! \| SVS
12 view cover	Who Built America? Volume 2: 1865 to the Present; Working People and the Nation's History more books like this by Professor Roy Rosenzweig, Nelson Lichtenstein, Joshua Brown add to wishlist "Who Built America?" explores fundamental conflicts in United States history by placing working peoples' struggle for social and economic justice at center stage. Unique among U.S. history survey textbooks for its clear point of view, "Who Built America" is a joint effort of Bedford/St. Martin's and the American Social History Project, based at ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $26.67! \| SVS
13 view cover	Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest more books like this by Patrick J Finn add to wishlist Second edition of the classic study that delivers a passionate plea for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give workingclass children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper and middleclass people receive. see all copies from $2.47! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Tell Me a Riddle more books like this by Tillie Olsen add to wishlist Celebrated, influential, and widely anthologized short stories by Tillie Olsen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Last Orders more books like this by Graham Swift add to wishlist Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, and now a major new film starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Michael Caine. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker more books like this by Steven Greenhouse add to wishlist "The Big Squeeze" takes a probing, sometimes shocking look at the stresses faced by an alarming number of American workers--white- and blue-collar, middle- and low-income--as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman more books like this by Ning L T'Ai-T'ai, Ida Pruitt (Editor), Lao T'Ai-T'ai Ning add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Dwelling Place more books like this by Catherine Cookson add to wishlist When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $86.20! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Who Built America? Volume 1: To 1877; Working People and the Nation's History more books like this by Christopher Clark, MD, Nancy Hewitt, Joshua Brown add to wishlist "Who Built America?" explores fundamental conflicts in United States history by placing working peoples' struggle for social and economic justice at center stage. Unique among U.S. history survey textbooks for its clear point of view, "Who Built America" is a joint effort of Bedford/St. Martin's and the American Social History Project, based at ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $35.61! \| SVS
20 view cover	Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War more books like this by Bruce Levine add to wishlist "Half Slave and Half Free" is a powerful treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. In a succinct, persuasive narrative, Bruce Levine succeeds in showing how a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life after the incomplete Revolution of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| first editions
21 view cover	Making of the English Working Class more books like this by Edward P Thompson add to wishlist E. P. Thompson examines the period from 1870 to 1932, when historical forces and processes, including the Industrial Revolution, brought about the working class as a separate and identifiable group in England. see all copies from $4.85! new only from $14.92! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner more books like this by Alan Sillitoe add to wishlist The title story in this collection of short stories tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting a no-man's land of institutionalized Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Three Lives more books like this by Gertrude Stein add to wishlist Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Blue Collar & Proud of It: The All-In-One Resource for Finding Freedom, Financial Success, and Security Outside the Cubicle more books like this by Joe Lamacchia, Bridget Samburg add to wishlist This is What Color Is Your Parachute? for the blue collar tradespart motivational primer, part comprehensive resource guidefor the millions of people who want a rewarding career (and a life) when they're not cut out to spend from 9 to 5 in a cubicle. see all copies from $2.65! new only from $5.76! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies more books like this by Tom Perrotta add to wishlist Tom Perrotta sets these tales in the 1970s. All of them feature Buddy, who progresses from a young Cub Scout to the end of his teenage years, following his experiences growing up in a New Jersey suburb. All of this is territory Perrotta knows well and has elaborated on skillfully in his subsequent books: this very appealing book of stories is his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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