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حکومت خصوصی

اثر الیزابت اس. اندرسون • 2017

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

3.94

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🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

حکومت خصوصی

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

اثر الیزابت اس. اندرسون 2017 216 صفحه

3.94

۵۰۰+ امتیاز

🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

کار عاشقت نمی‌شود

اثر سارا جافی • 2021

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

3.94

۵٬۰۰۰+

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

کار عاشقت نمی‌شود

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

اثر سارا جافی 2021 432 صفحه

3.94

۵٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

آتش‌سوزی هملت

اثر برایانت سایمون • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

4.12

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🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

آتش‌سوزی هملت

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

اثر برایانت سایمون 2020 302 صفحه

4.12

۲۴۵ امتیاز

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

Christ in Concrete

اثر Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

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🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Christ in Concrete

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

اثر Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 صفحه

3.76

۱٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Black Folk

اثر Blair L.M. Kelley • 2023

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

4.49

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🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

Black Folk

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

اثر Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 صفحه

4.49

۴۱۷ امتیاز

🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

نبرد در مزارع

اثر سوزان فریس • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

۹۹

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

نبرد در مزارع

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

اثر سوزان فریس 1997 352 صفحه

4.00

۹۹ امتیاز

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Wages of Whiteness

اثر David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

3.99

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🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

اثر David R. Roediger 1991 197 صفحه

3.99

۲٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

Outclassed

اثر Joan C. Williams • 2025

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

4.20

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👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Outclassed

The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

اثر Joan C. Williams 2025 368 صفحه

4.20

۲۴۸ امتیاز

👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Why David Sometimes Wins

اثر Marshall Ganz • 2008

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

3.99

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✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Why David Sometimes Wins

No money, no power. The farm workers still beat the Teamsters. What they had was better.

اثر Marshall Ganz 2008 368 صفحه

3.99

۱۷۷ امتیاز

✊ Labor Movements ♟️ Movement Strategy 🧠 Organizational Learning 🏘️ Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Making of the English Working Class

اثر E.P. Thompson • 1963

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

4.21

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📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Making of the English Working Class

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

اثر E.P. Thompson 1963 848 صفحه

4.21

۳٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Indispensable Enemy

اثر Alexander Saxton • 1971

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

3.88

۴۲

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✊ Labor Solidarity

The Indispensable Enemy

Capitalism was the threat, but the Chinese were the target. How white labor chose its enemy.

اثر Alexander Saxton 1971 293 صفحه

3.88

۴۲ امتیاز

👷 Labor History 🌉 California History 🚫 Anti-Asian Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✊ Labor Solidarity

America's Social Arsonist

اثر Gabriel Thompson • 2016

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

4.54

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🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement 🇲🇽 Chicano History 🤝 Relational Organizing

America's Social Arsonist

The overlooked mentor who taught Cesar Chavez that power begins with a house meeting.

اثر Gabriel Thompson 2016 294 صفحه

4.54

۵۰ امتیاز

🧱 Grassroots Organizing 🛠️ Labor Organizing 🍇 Farmworker Movement 🇲🇽 Chicano History 🤝 Relational Organizing

The Age of Acquiescence

اثر Steve Fraser • 2015

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

3.82

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✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Age of Acquiescence

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

اثر Steve Fraser 2015 480 صفحه

3.82

۴۵۴ امتیاز

✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

Slave Country

اثر Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

3.73

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Slave Country

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

اثر Adam Rothman 2005 312 صفحه

3.73

۱۶۹ امتیاز

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

It Didn't Happen Here

اثر Seymour Martin Lipset • 2000

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

3.60

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

It Didn't Happen Here

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

اثر Seymour Martin Lipset 2000 374 صفحه

3.60

۱۰۵ امتیاز

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

The Fall of the House of Labor

اثر David Montgomery • 1987

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

3.93

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📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management 🏭 Working Class Culture 💰 Gilded Age

The Fall of the House of Labor

Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.

اثر David Montgomery 1987 508 صفحه

3.93

۱۴۷ امتیاز

📚 Labor History 🛠️ Craft Unionism ⚙️ Scientific Management 🏭 Working Class Culture 💰 Gilded Age

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

اثر Nelson Lichtenstein • 1995

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

4.04

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🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

اثر Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 صفحه

4.04

۹۶ امتیاز

🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

Red State Revolt

اثر Eric Blanc • 2019

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

4.18

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🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

Red State Revolt

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

اثر Eric Blanc 2019 224 صفحه

4.18

۴۵۴ امتیاز

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

State of the Union

اثر Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

3.75

۱۷۰

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

اثر Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 صفحه

3.75

۱۷۰ امتیاز

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

Workers on Arrival

اثر Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

4.20

۴۱

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Workers on Arrival

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

اثر Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 صفحه

4.20

۴۱ امتیاز

⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

اثر William E. Forbath • 1989

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

3.93

۴۶

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

اثر William E. Forbath 1989 230 صفحه

3.93

۴۶ امتیاز

🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

The Making of American Exceptionalism

اثر Kim Voss • 1993

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

3.80

۱۰

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

The Making of American Exceptionalism

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

اثر Kim Voss 1993 290 صفحه

3.80

۱۰ امتیاز

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

Wobblies and Zapatistas

اثر Staughton Lynd • 2008

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

3.89

۴۷۳

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

Wobblies and Zapatistas

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

اثر Staughton Lynd 2008 288 صفحه

3.89

۴۷۳ امتیاز

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

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