Books focused on poverty, workers' rights, and the class war that the ultra wealthy is waging on the rest of us.
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last updated August, 2026
Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal
Andrew Ross
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day
David R. Roediger
Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism
Vijay Prashad
Class War, USA
Brandon Weber
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
Toni Gilpin
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Gavin Mueller
Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series)
Kathleen Sears
The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Families, Law, and Society, 11)
Daniel L. Hatcher
Work Without the Worker
Phil Jones
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Eyal Press
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Evan Osnos
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Jonathan Crary
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business
Nelson D. Schwartz
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Gregg Colburn
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Molly Smith
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
Debt Collective
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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