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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Automating Inequality Automating Inequality Eubanks,Virginia Eubanks A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare… OL18203697W
Kids These Days Kids These Days Malcolm Harris,Malcolm Harris "A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.… OL18361634W
Nomadland Nomadland Jessica Bruder "From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely … OL19715284W
High-risers High-risers Ben Austen Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an … OL19754125W
The broken ladder The broken ladder Payne, Keith (Social scientist) "A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this dispa… OL20058074W
Caste Caste Isabel Wilkerson “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is n… OL20878310W
Survival of the Richest Survival of the Richest Donald Jeffries,Richard Syrett xviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm OL21140609W