B. Traven 1926 207p 5 x 8 The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the 1920s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. Gales, a laconic American drifter, turns his hand to anything for a meal and a flea-bitten … Continue reading The Cotton-Pickers
The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale 1995 336p 6 x 9 Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites’ struggle to preserve their way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them and force further isolation, exploitation and alienation. ‘King Ludd’ lead anonymous groups of peasants against … Continue reading Rebels Against the Future
Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent Eduardo Galeano 1971 317p 6 x 9 Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and … Continue reading Open Veins of Latin America
Suzzane Collins 2008 384p 5 x 8 In retribution for a crushed uprising years before, each region of the future, dystopian United States must send its children to fight each other to the death. What will people do to survive? What will people watch to be entertained (and forget … Continue reading The Hunger Games
The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads Dee Brown 1977 305p 6 x 9 An often unknown and under-appreciated social history of the transcontinental railroad. Brown covers so many social tensions: from the barge workers (being displaced by railroads) and the railroad industry, to the hyper-exploitation of immigrant rail … Continue reading Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Memory of Fire Vol. III Eduardo Galeano 1986 336p 5 x 8 In 1977 a disheveled, reclusive Elvis Presley fired pistols at his six TV sets in Graceland while, a continent away, Brazil’s military dictatorship banned Picasso’s erotic prints and the U.S. Declaration of Independence. In this Uruguayan journalist’s epic tapestry, … Continue reading Century of Wind
The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history – the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, … Continue reading The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York 1991 425p 6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire … Continue reading The People of the Pines
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading