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1. Cover image for 'Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion'
Making Technologies Work for the Poor
Nir Kshetri
Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
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Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Joseph B. Entin
Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
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Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing
Moisés Kopper
On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Architectures of Hope"
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Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75
Michael D’Alessandro
How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staged Readings"
5. Cover image for 'Working Backstage'
A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor
Christin Essin
Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Working Backstage"
6. Cover image for 'Anti-Imperialist Modernism'
Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Benjamin Balthaser
A unique excavation of how U.S. cross-border, anti-imperialist movements shaped cultural modernism

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Web 2015 Open Access Available Read Online
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The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937
With a New Foreword by Kim Moody
Sidney Fine
Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Sit-Down"
8. Cover image for 'The Dangerous Class'
The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat
Clyde W. Barrow
The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Dangerous Class"
9. Cover image for 'Clothed in Meaning'
Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America
Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Clothed in Meaning"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Clothed in Meaning"
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Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America
Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Clothed in Meaning"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Clothed in Meaning"
10. Cover image for 'Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers'
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Cedric R. Tolliver
Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
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Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
10. Cover image for 'Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers'
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Cedric R. Tolliver
Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
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Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction
Ann Mattis
What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Dirty Work"
12. Cover image for 'The Harvest of American Racism'
The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967
Robert Shellow
In print for the first time—the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Harvest of American Racism"
13. Cover image for 'The Half-Life of Deindustrialization'
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Sherry Lee Linkon
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long-term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Half-Life of Deindustrialization"
14. Cover image for 'Memory, Meaning, and Resistance'
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Fran Leper Buss
A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Memory, Meaning, and Resistance"
15. Cover image for 'Middle Class Union'
Organizing the ‘Consuming Public’ in Post-World War I America
Mark W. Robbins
Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Middle Class Union"
16. Cover image for 'The Poverty Law Canon'
Exploring the Major Cases
Marie A. Failinger and Ezra Rosser, Editors
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Poverty Law Canon"
17. Cover image for 'How the Workers Became Muslims'
Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
Ferruh Yilmaz
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "How the Workers Became Muslims"
18. Cover image for 'Dreams for Dead Bodies'
Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction
M. Michelle Robinson
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2016 Open Access Available Read Online
19. Cover image for 'Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties'
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Clarence Lang
 A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
19. Cover image for 'Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties'
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Clarence Lang
A spirited argument for moving beyond the legacy of the Civil Rights era to best understand the current situation of African Americans
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties"
20. Cover image for 'Dividing Lines'
Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
Andreá N. Williams
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2013 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Dividing Lines"
21. Cover image for 'The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit'
Andrew Herscher
A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2012 Open Access Available Read Online
22. Cover image for 'American Socialist Triptych'
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Mark W. Van Wienen
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Socialist Triptych"
23. Cover image for 'Transcribing Class and Gender'
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Carole Srole

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Transcribing Class and Gender"
24. Cover image for 'Grassroots at the Gateway'
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Clarence Lang

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Grassroots at the Gateway"
25. Cover image for 'Slaves to Fashion'
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Robert J. S. Ross
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Slaves to Fashion"
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Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

Our Ebooks are currently offered under a single-user license, which means that your Ebook can be accessed by using one Adobe ID. Any computer authorized to this Adobe ID will be able to open the file. Learn more at the Adobe ID and Membership FAQ page.

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