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The Taming of the American Crowd

From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees

Al Sandine

The history of the United States has been largely shaped, for better or for worse, by the actions of large groups of people. Rioters on a village green, shoppers lurching about a labyrinthine mall,...

Put To Work

The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression

Nancy Rose

With unemployment surging to record levels and the economy in freefall, experts are looking to the Great Depression for lessons in stimulating job creation. Then, as now, the system was unable to...

Depression 2.0

Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times

Cletus Nelson

So we're in a recession, maybe you've lost your job, your first thought probably isn't "I'm going to go buy a book about how we're in a recession!" But this one actually might be useful enough to...

The Great Financial Crisis

Causes and Consequences

John Bellamy Foster

The bursting of the housing bubble and the ensuing financial debacle have left most people, including many economists and financial experts asking: Why did this happen? If they had been reading...

In and Out of the Working Class

Michael D Yates

In a series of autobiographical essays written on the border between fiction and non-fiction, a radical economist considers what it means to live in and through the theories about class that have...

The Darker Nations

A People's History of The Third World

Vijay Prashad

Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual...

Cheap Motels And A Hot Plate

An Economist's Travelogue

Michael D Yates

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has an economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and...

Gastonia 1929

The Story Of the Loray Mill Strike

John A Salmond

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond...

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism

David Lester

A beautiful book full of hard numbers - hard to take. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors - poverty, exploitation, and injustice - is...