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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon...

An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class poverty in America. Born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teenage mothers on her maternal side, Smarsh grew up in a family of labourers trapped in a cycle of poverty. She learned about hard work and also absorbed painful lessons about economic inequality, eventually coming to understand the powerful forces that have blighted the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the heartland.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to...

In Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up. Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and...

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.

For fans of the beloved HBO series The Gilded Age, a definitive volume on life and thought in America during the era—now reissued with a beautiful new cover. With Season 3 of the hit Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age breaking records in summer 2025 with its highest ratings ever—and...

Bloomsbury presents Reprieve by James Han Mattson, read by JD Jackson. An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland '[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN 'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Clever, insightful...

In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.

"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York Times How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it. There...

Brought to you by Penguin. Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk...

Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically...

真正的历史转折点往往不在总统府的谈判桌上，而隐藏在无数农民、工人和移民对抗系统性不平等的社会阶层博弈里。当你厌倦了宏大叙事与王侯将相的赞歌，渴望在纷繁复杂的现代社会中找到个体命运的坐标时，这部自下而...

在资本狂飙突进的历史十字路口，前所未有的国家暴富与深不见底的阶层撕裂竟然遵循着同一套残酷的经济逻辑。当你深陷当下的财富焦虑，试图理解为何经济不断扩张却依然难以跨越阶层壁垒时，这部节奏明快的社会经济史...

A expansão econômica e a desigualdade social extrema cresceram juntas como motores da mesma máquina histórica americana. Ideal para acompanhar seu deslocamento diário, esta narrativa imersiva revela o verdadeiro custo do progresso acelerado após a Guerra Civil. É uma jornada reflexiva por...

L'inarrestabile ascesa del capitalismo americano ha forgiato una superpotenza, innescando una disuguaglianza storica. Ideale per chi cerca una narrazione analitica durante il tragitto quotidiano, questo saggio illumina le dinamiche nascoste del boom industriale. Un ascolto profondo che trasforma...

يروي هذا التاريخ الاقتصادي قصة صعود أمريكا الصناعية، حيث رافق تراكم الثروات الهائل فقر مدقع وصراعات طبقية مريرة. وسط هدير السكك الحديدية ودخان المصانع، تبرز...

El abandono de la vida nómada no fue un simple avance técnico, sino la revolución histórica que originó la desigualdad. Para quienes buscan desentrañar las raíces de nuestra sociedad moderna durante su viaje diario, este audiolibro ofrece una inmersión antropológica fascinante. Pasamos...

未曾有の経済成長がもたらしたきらびやかな繁栄と、その陰で深く静かに進行した深刻な格差社会という、19世紀アメリカの光と影の歴史を紐解き、現代に通じる不平等の構造を解き明かします。南北戦争後の荒れた大地...

人類が土を耕し定住を選んだその瞬間、豊かな文明の輝きとともに、残酷な格差と不平等の歴史が幕を開けました。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のひとときに、壮大な人類史のパラダイムシフトへと没入し、知的な思索に浸...