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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Five

By Hallie Rubenhold ,

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A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States

By Howard Zinn ,

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Hillbilly Elegy

By J. D. Vance ,

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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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A Manual for Cleaning Women

By Lucia Berlin ,

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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
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The Man Who Never Died

By William M. Adler ,

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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold

By Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy , Madeline D. Davis ,

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Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
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Poverty Safari

By Darren McGarvey ,

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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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Plutopia

By Kate Brown ,

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Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
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Communal Luxury

By Kristin Ross ,

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The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
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The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

By Janice Galloway ,

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Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
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Moving Up without Losing Your Way

By Jennifer Morton ,

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Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
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Detroit's Cold War

By Colleen Doody ,

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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By Elizabeth Catte ,

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Common People: The History of an English Family
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Common People

By Alison Light ,

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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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Stayin' Alive

By Jefferson R. Cowie ,

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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
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Detroit

By Dan Georgakas , Marvin Surkin ,

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Rust Belt Boy: Stories of an American Childhood
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Rust Belt Boy

By Paul Hertneky ,

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Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
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Labor's Love Lost

By Andrew J. Cherlin ,

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We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
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We're Still Here

By Jennifer M. Silva ,

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The Gardens of the British Working Class
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The Gardens of the British Working Class

By Margaret Willes ,

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Tales of Mean Streets
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Tales of Mean Streets

By Arthur Morrison ,

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Townie: A Memoir
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Townie

By Andre Dubus III ,

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Dear Evelyn
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Dear Evelyn

By Kathy Page ,

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Marx's Capital Illustrated
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Marx's Capital Illustrated

By David Smith , Phil Evans (illustrator) ,

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Lawn Boy
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Lawn Boy

By Jonathan Evison ,

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Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
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Marriage Markets

By June Carbone , Naomi Cahn ,

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Women of the French Revolution
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Women of the French Revolution

By Winfred Stephens ,

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Workers and Capital
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Workers and Capital

By Mario Tronti ,

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A Hazard of New Fortunes
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A Hazard of New Fortunes

By William Dean Howells ,

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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
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Goddess of Anarchy

By Jacqueline Jones ,

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Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community
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Smeltertown

By Monica Perales ,

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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
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Workers on Arrival

By Joe William Trotter, Jr. ,

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Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
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Spirit of Rebellion

By Jarod Roll ,

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The Wheels of Chance
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The Wheels of Chance

By H.G. Wells ,

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When the Sea Is Rising Red
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When the Sea Is Rising Red

By Cat Hellisen ,

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Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times
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Cut Adrift

By Marianne Cooper ,

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Who Do You Think You Are?
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Who Do You Think You Are?

By Alice Munro ,

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White Knight Black Swan
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White Knight Black Swan

By David Gemmell ,

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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
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The Manly Art

By Elliott J. Gorn ,

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Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain
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Rhythms of Labour

By Marek Korczynski , Michael Pickering , Emma Robertson

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The Mysteries of Paris
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The Mysteries of Paris

By Eugene Sue ,

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We Want Everything
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We Want Everything

By Nanni Balestrini ,

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