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Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (American Century Series)Artisans into Workers: LABOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (American Century Series) by Bruce Laurie
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The American working class--the genesis of a class of pure wage-earners in this country
Labor's Story in the United StatesLabor's Story in the United States by Philip Yale Nicholson
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The American working class
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies)A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies) by Paul Le Blanc
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The American working class
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United StatesSubterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
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The American working class
Labor and the American Revolution.Labor and the American Revolution. by Philip S. Foner
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The American working class
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Haymarket Series)Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Haymarket Series) by Philip S. Foner
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The American working class
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz
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The American working class
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
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The American working class
The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press Book)The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press Book) by Michael Zweig
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The American working class
What's Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First CenturyWhat's Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
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The American working class
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They DoWorking: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
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The American working class
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public WelfareRegulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven
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The American working class--but it is also a theoretical analysis with conclusions that extend to the working classes of all industrialized capitalist nations.
Making of the English Working ClassMaking of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
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The English working class--a deliberately romanticized account
Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience 1750-1900Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience 1750-1900 by John Belchem
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The English working class
Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal FactoryRevolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory by Kevin Murphy
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Russian workers under the Bolsheviks
Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to SocialismWeavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism by Peter Winn
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The Chilean working class
Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (The Haymarket Series)Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (The Haymarket Series) by Kim Moody
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The international working class under the globalization of capital
May Day: A Short History of the International Worker's Holiday 1886-1986May Day: A Short History of the International Worker's Holiday 1886-1986 by Philip Sheldon Foner
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The international working class
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and ChangeUnderstanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change by Samuel Bowles
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A very good book
Birth of the Communist ManifestoBirth of the Communist Manifesto
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Included in this book are a history of the Manifesto (along with a history of the English and European working classes) and the Manifesto itself. The Manifesto itself is a succinct summary of the rise of capitalism and of an industrial working class. It paints this history in broad strokes, which has both a drawback (it simplifies things) and a tremendous advantage (it simplifies things).
The Marx-Engels Reader, Second EditionThe Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition by Karl Marx
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Marx's solution is obviously controversial, but his analysis of the class problem of capitalism is universally recognized as the best. Included in this reader are crucial writings such as 'Wage Labor and Capital', 'Working Class Manchester', and about 150 pages of selections from 'Capital'
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive AccumulationThe Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman
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An interesting review of the way that classical political economists like Adam Smith basically swept the fact of capitalism's class differences under the rug.
New Perspectives on American PoliticsNew Perspectives on American Politics by Lawrence C. Dodd
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For the chapter, "The Significance of Class in American History and Politics" by John Manley of Stanford.
Progress Without People: In Defense of LuddismProgress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble
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Shows that advancements in technology differently affect people of different classes--that is, depending on whether they are the owners or the workers of the new technology.
The TakeThe Take
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The Argentinian working class
Salt of the EarthSalt of the Earth
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The American working class. If you think that Marxists, and socialists more generally, have a strange obsession with the supposedly revolutionary potential of the working class, consider the fact that this movie about a simple miner's strike is the only film ever banned by the U.S. gov't
Debs: His Life, Writings and SpeechesDebs: His Life, Writings and Speeches by Eugene V. Debs
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One of the few explicitly class-conscious politicians in American history, Debs tells the history of class divisions in capitalism simply and without jargon, particularly in is his essay "Unionism and Socialism". http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/
More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United StatesMore Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States by Michael D. Yates
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The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit DownsThe Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit Downs by Sidney Lens
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