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Stay Solid!

A Radical Handbook for Youth

Matt Hern

This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes,...

Killing the Poormaster

A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression

Holly Metz

On February 25, 1938, in the early days of the welfare system, the reviled poormaster Harry Barck—wielding power over who would receive public aid—died from a paper spike thrust into his heart....

The People's Pension

The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan

Eric Laursen

The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an eye-opening guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues of our times. With 95 percent of Americans participating...

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido

A People's Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles...

The Moral Underground

How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson

"I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make."—Supervisor of a fast-food pizza placeHere is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who...

East End 1888

William J Fishman

East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack...