The 99% -- Most Readable Non-Fiction

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Non-fiction books about the lives of ordinary people that held your interest. Thumb down the ones you didn't like/didn't finish. Let's not mark books that we think are ideologically important, but we haven't enjoyed reading. Add titles as needed. Delete fiction I missed.
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workers
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
af Barbara Ehrenreich
10,871 medlemmer
212 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
4 Members
schmootc, lahochstetler, aulsmith, cej1027
2
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
af Studs Terkel
2,121 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
lilithcat, eromsted, buket_jesuis
3
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
af David Von Drehle
1,212 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
lilithcat, eromsted
4
I ly af mørket : nordkoreanske skæbner
af Barbara Demick
3,198 medlemmer
177 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
lahochstetler
5
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
af Barbara Ehrenreich
1,748 medlemmer
55 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
6
The Feminine Mystique
af Betty Friedan
4,532 medlemmer
49 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
aulsmith
7
Coming of Age in Mississippi
af Anne Moody
1,625 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
4
Member
lahochstetler
8
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
af Leslie T. Chang
973 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
cej1027
9
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
af Lizabeth Cohen
335 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
Member
eromsted
10
A People's History of the United States
af Howard Zinn
14,739 medlemmer
158 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
eromsted
11
Autobiography of Mother Jones
af Mother Jones
231 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
lilithcat
13
Labor's Untold Story
af Richard O. Boyer
284 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
eromsted
14
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
af Rose Castillo Guilbault
34 medlemmer
3.2
Member
lahochstetler
15
Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood
af William D. Haywood
75 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
eromsted
16
Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877
af David O. Stowell
30 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 2.5
Member
eromsted
17
Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality
af Bruce Nelson
41 medlemmer
4
Member
eromsted
18
We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard
af John Hoerr
25 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.7
Member
eromsted
19
Huelga: the first hundred days of the great Delano grape strike
af Eugene Nelson
16 medlemmer
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
20
Chinese Working People in America; A Pictorial History
af Wei Min She Labor Commitee
5 medlemmer
3
Member
eromsted
21
The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line
af Steve Golin
6 medlemmer
4
Member
eromsted
22
The People Together: One Hundred Years of Minnesota, 1858-1958
af Meridel Le Sueur
3 medlemmer
3
Member
eromsted
23
The Crowd In History
af George Rudé
138 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
24
Teamster Rebellion
af Farrell Dobbs
89 medlemmer
½ 4.5
Member
eromsted
25
Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
af Sol Dollinger
36 medlemmer
4
Member
eromsted
26
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
af Christine Stansell
287 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
Member
eromsted
27
Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
af Tom Juravich
33 medlemmer
½ 4.3
Member
eromsted
28
Allies Across the Border
af Dale Hathaway
30 medlemmer
4
Member
eromsted
29
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
af Juliet B. Schor
403 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
30
Rise gonna rise: A portrait of southern textile workers
af Mimi Conway
33 medlemmer
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
31
We Were There: Working Women
af Barbara M Wertheimer
84 medlemmer
3
Member
eromsted
32
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
af Michael Pollan
13,909 medlemmer
351 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
lahochstetler,schmootc
33
Fastfood nationen : skyggesiden af det ærkeamerikanske måltid
af Eric Schlosser
12,483 medlemmer
171 anmeldelser
3.9
34
Junglen
af Upton Sinclair
11,621 medlemmer
129 anmeldelser
3.8
35
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
af Anne Lamott
10,170 medlemmer
238 anmeldelser
4.1
36
Class, race, and labor; working-class consciousness in Detroit
af John C. Leggett
16 medlemmer
2
37
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
af Steve Dublanica
1,305 medlemmer
90 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
38
Esperanza Rising
af Pam Muñoz Ryan
10,829 medlemmer
815 anmeldelser
4.2
39
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
af Kathleen Krull
1,160 medlemmer
73 anmeldelser
4.2
40
Someone Builds the Dream
af Lisa Wheeler
128 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4.1
41
Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?
af Richard Scarry
1,893 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
4.2
42
Two Caravans
af Marina Lewycka
1,388 medlemmer
62 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
43
God's Bits of Wood
af Ousmane Sembene
681 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
44
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
af Ben Hamper
528 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
3.9
45
Cowboys (Books for Young Explorers)
af Philip B. Silcott
201 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
46
Whose Tools Are These?: A Look at Tools Workers Use - Big, Sharp, and Smooth (Whose Is It?: Community Workers)
af Sharon Katz Cooper
137 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
5
47
That's Not Fair! / No Es Justo!: Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice/La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia
af Carmen Tafolla
136 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
48
Workers' Compensation Act Chapter 539
af Government of Ontario
7 medlemmer
49
Comparison of Workers' Compensation Legislation in Canada
af Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada
4 medlemmer
50
Of Mice and Men
af John Steinbeck
38,984 medlemmer
659 anmeldelser
3.9
51
North and South
af Elizabeth Gaskell
7,409 medlemmer
245 anmeldelser
4.1
52
Germinal
af Émile Zola
5,360 medlemmer
78 anmeldelser
4.1
53
In Dubious Battle
af John Steinbeck
2,379 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
3.8
54
Sjak nr. 3
af Magnus Mills
1,006 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
3.8
55
Curious George at the Fire Station
af Margret Rey
847 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.4
56
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
af Michelle Markel
559 medlemmer
77 anmeldelser
4.2
57
Trashy Town
af Andrea Zimmerman
540 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
3.8
58
Richard Scarry's Busy Workers
af Richard Scarry
308 medlemmer
3.9
59
Migrant
af Maxine Trottier
271 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
3.9
60
ABC of Jobs
af Roger Priddy
221 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.2
61
Before We Eat: From Farm to Table
af Pat Brisson
189 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
62
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
af Priscilla Murolo
166 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
63
I Want To Be A Doctor
af Dan Liebman
162 medlemmer
3
64
Community Helpers from A to Z
af Bobbie Kalman
141 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
65
Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
af Peter Winn
81 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.4
66
An Auto Mechanic (How We Work)
af Douglas Florian
78 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 2.5
67
Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest
af Carlos A. Schwantes
19 medlemmer
68
Niceville
af Kathryn Stockett
30,483 medlemmer
1,488 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
69
Det kommunistiske manifest
af Karl Marx
15,068 medlemmer
137 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
70
Strenge tider
af Charles Dickens
10,535 medlemmer
131 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
71
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
af Stephen E. Ambrose
3,133 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
72
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
af Kate Moore
3,093 medlemmer
190 anmeldelser
4.1
73
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
af Sherri Duskey Rinker
2,748 medlemmer
75 anmeldelser
4.1
74
Rosie Revere, Engineer
af Andrea Beaty
2,356 medlemmer
88 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
75
Rosa
af Nikki Giovanni
2,126 medlemmer
166 anmeldelser
4.2
76
Peter Pedal hænger i
af H. A. Rey
1,753 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
4
77
I Stink!
af Kate McMullan
1,567 medlemmer
64 anmeldelser
4.1
78
Women of the Silk
af Gail Tsukiyama
1,472 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
3.8
79
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
af David Graeber
1,389 medlemmer
39 anmeldelser
4
80
Tomas and the Library Lady
af Pat Mora
1,014 medlemmer
37 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
81
Building a House
af Byron Barton
907 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4.1
82
Fire! Fire!
af Gail Gibbons
875 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4
83
Hats, Hats, Hats
af Ann Morris
816 medlemmer
28 anmeldelser
3.8
84
The Cold Millions
af Jess Walter
746 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4.1
85
Firefighters A to Z
af Chris L. Demarest
659 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
86
Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners
af Crimethink Workers Collective
598 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.9
87
The Tortilla Factory
af Gary Paulsen
597 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
3.9
88
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
af Barbara Ehrenreich
482 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
89
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do
af Kathryn Heling
475 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
3.9
90
Do Not Open This Book!
af Michaela Muntean
447 medlemmer
29 anmeldelser
4.1
91
Out of This Furnace
af Thomas Bell
433 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
92
Career Day
af Anne Rockwell
388 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
3.8
93
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
af Emily Arnold McCully
281 medlemmer
29 anmeldelser
4.2
94
Voices from the Fields : Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories
af S. Beth Atkin
261 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
95
The Hidden Injuries of Class
af Jonathan Cobb
259 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
96
Captain Swing
af Eric Hobsbawm
247 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.3
97
Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
af Sebastião Salgado
238 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.6
98
The Bobbin Girl
af Emily Arnold McCully
234 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
99
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
af Barbara Kingsolver
207 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
100
Zoo
af Gail Gibbons
186 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 4.3