working class

"An . . . account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities. One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, [the author] addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them"--OCLC.

Explores how Americans sought and fought for change from the 1880s to the present time, adding new coverage of Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and Black Lives Matter.

Presents an unabridged edition of the controversial 1906 novel which describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel describing the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant.

"... is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today"--Amazon.com.

"Mike Mun?oz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--.

A memoir of J.R. Helton that discusses his work experiences during the 1980s in Austin, Texas.

In this book, readers will learn not only how to spot classism, but also how to stand up for themselves and others in effective ways.

Tells the story of those left behind in Galesburg, Illinois, after the Maytag Corporation closed the doors on its refrigerator plant, moving it to Mexico, while discussing the transformation of Reynosa, Mexico, a small town on the American border, that received the manufacturing plant.