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Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Faced with a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Mu�noz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
7) Ava's man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Shonauthor continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression and the inspiring story of the man who raised her.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
11) Elegy for Eddie
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eddie Pettit's death is ruled an accident by the police, many believe that this gentle soul was murdered and Maisy Dobbs, determined to do right by Eddie, searches for the truth amid the working-class of Lambeth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable, until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't seen since she was a little girl.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian...
14) Shuggie Bain
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
15) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An inclusive history of the labor movement examines the workers and organizers--freed black women, Jewish immigrants, Asian American field workers, and queer labor leaders--who risked their livelihoods to fight for fair wages, better working conditions, and an eight-hour workday.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
418 p.
Language
English
Description
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that one of the greatest writers of the English language despised working people, showing that he portrayed them with as much insight, compassion, and purpose as the rich and powerful. Moreover, working people play an important role in his dramatic method. Stephen Unwin reads Shakespeare anew, exploring the astonishing variety of working people in his plays, as well as the vast range...