Books like The Meritocracy Trap

#1

The Aristocracy of Talent How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

Adrian Wooldridge

Themes: Labor • Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity

#2

The Lean Years A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

Irving Bernstein

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Economic History

#3

The Divide A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions

Jason Hickel

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Discrimination • Economic History

#4

The Color of Money Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination

#5

All that is Solid How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and what We Can Do about it

Daniel Dorling

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination

#6

Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-rich

Chrystia Freeland

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination

#7

Heartland A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Sarah Smarsh

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Economic History

#8

The Populist Vision

Charles Postel

Themes: Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Economic History • Social History

#9

The Wealth of Humans Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century

Ryan Avent

Themes: Labor • Social Aspects • Economic History

#10

The Technology Trap Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

Carl Benedikt Frey

Themes: Labor • Social Aspects • Economic History

#11

Black Software The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Charlton D. McIlwain

Themes: Social Aspects • Discrimination • Social History

#12

Consumer Vulnerability Conditions, Contexts and Characteristics

Kathy Hamilton

Themes: Labor • Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity

#13

Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

Themes: Labor • Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity

#14

From the Folks who Brought You the Weekend An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

Priscilla Murolo

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#15

Can’t Even How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Anne Helen Petersen

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#16

A Working People A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation

Steven A. Reich

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#17

The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship

Jason McGraw

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#18

Night Comes to the Cumberlands A Biography of a Depressed Area

Harry M. Caudill

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Economic History • Social History

#19

Fixer Poems

Edgar Kunz

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#20

The Injustice of Place Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Kathryn Edin

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Economic History • Social History

#21

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

Themes: Poverty & Homelessness • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#22

No Right to be Idle The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s

Sarah F. Rose

Themes: Labor • Economic History • Social History

#23

Servants A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

Lucy Lethbridge

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Social History

#24

Fight Like Hell The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly

Themes: Labor • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Economic History