working class

The semi-autobiographical story of an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.

The horrifying conditions in the meat-packing industry in the early 1900s are revealed through the experiences of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus as he tries to make a living working in the Chicago stockyards. Includes related documents.

Examines the gathering threats to Americans' standard of living and the government's failure to address them and offers a bold plan for making vital reforms.

Paul Morel, a painter from a British working-class family, is unable to choose between his possessive mother and two young beautiful women.

Presents George Orwell's report on conditions among the unemployed as well as the employed in the north of England in 1937,and includes his views on the failures of socialism and socialists, and features an introductory rebuttal by Victor Gollancz, one of the founders of the Left Book Club which commissioned Orwell's article.

Based on the recollections of a former student of the author's about the nightmare adventures of the Wendall family, living in the slums of Detroit.

Examines how globalization and free trade affect people from various parts of the world, contending that it has hurt the working class and providing examples to support the argument.

Collection of poems written by a variety of contributors in the 1980s and 1990s that address the nature and culture of white collar, domestic, clerical, technical, managerial, or professional work.

An historical novel written as the diary of Flora Rutherford, who is taken in by her aunt and uncle and must work at a textile mill to help them out.