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"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
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Searching for truth can sometimes feel like finding a needle in a haystack in a world filled with information overload. But fear not, as we embark on this noble quest together!When analyzing critical issues, it is crucial to approach the task with an open mind and a discerning eye. We must be willing to dive deep into the facts and evidence, seeking clarity amidst the noise. It's like being detectives of truth, piecing together the puzzle of knowledge.By...
3) Covid, Capitalism, and Class War, Volume 1 2020: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War is the definitive scientific, social and political account of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on investigative reports, economic data, and extensive interviews with scientists, doctors, healthcare professionals, and workers.A unique element are the rich accounts by workers around the world – from factories, meatpacking plants, transport and logistic centers, hospitals, and schools – of the devastating toll the uncontrolled...
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Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA.
Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities. In that book, he shows that investment in...
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This Book Identifies an Enormous, World-Wide Travesty & Injustice That Has Been Allowed to Persist & Metastasize Throughout Hospital Systems & Medical Personnel Training Institutions for Centuries & Lays Out A Detailed Plan For Implementation of Urgent & Crucial Societal Changes That Are Now Urgently Necessary.
There Is Dire Need For Independent Physicians (a.k.a. "The Slaves") To Stand United & Unionize To Wage Battle Against Tyrant And Unethical...
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With musical language and vivid imagery, Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West attunes us to the sheer wonder of being alive. Intimate reflections on family histories, hardship, and everyday life reveal the ways art and nature can lift us from grief and serve as lodestars in an increasingly uncertain world. Russell Brakefield's poems span American landscapes and personal experience, dropping down in music venues and dark barrooms, back alleys and...
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Diego saute d'un cinquième étage, et à partir de ce moment, l'image est gravée dans l'esprit de sa sœur : six secondes et un corps qui s'écrase contre le sol. Elle raconte l'histoire de sa relation à son frère : leur venue au monde dans un foyer o la vie n'était jamais belle, les années passées au Mexique avec leurs grands-parents pendant que leur mère cherchait une nouvelle vie en Espagne et qu'elle s'occupait de Diego alors qu'elle était...
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Extraordinary true stories of the Irish in America, their remarkable rise from urban poverty, and the powerful dynasties they engendered Author Stephen Birmingham, who chronicled the rise of Jewish immigrants to extraordinary wealth and success in "Our Crowd", now turns his attention to the Irish. Real Lace tells the colorful and fascinating true stories of America's most renowned Irish-Catholic families. Scions of courageous, driven, and resilient...
10) The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
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This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines.
International Harvester-and the McCormick family that largely controlled it-garnered...
11) Silences
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First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent-the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments...
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In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.
Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten....
13) Sky's end
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"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
14) Fortress London
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A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. Journalist Sam Bright is a Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of people clinging on to the coattails of the capital, sucked in by the prospect of opportunities that the rest of the United Kingdom does not enjoy. Our capital is a vast melting pot of languages, cultures, and ideas, and rightly celebrated for it. For many, though,...
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World-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide-a spread which is often equated with the hope of democracy spreading along with it. But markets still run on old textbook models that ignore social and environmental costs-leading to a new kind of warfare: global economic warfare.
Building a...
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How didthe banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, megabanks, private equity firms, Eurobond traders, lobbyists, and a menagerie of scoundrels quietly financializing our entire society, hurting both business and individuals.
Shaxson shows how we got here, telling the story...
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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca's engagement with activist research in Barcelona's housing movement, in particular with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected...
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The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.
Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author Arundhati Roy-it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day by the...
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Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers-with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color-while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.
Lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite...
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From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product.
Capitalism:...
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