Bibliography on Class and Classism

Off Our Backs, Jan/Feb 2005 by Winter, Amy

Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly. Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997).

Albelda, Randy Pearl and Ann Withorn (eds). Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond. (South End Press, 2002).

Albelda, Randy, June Lapidus, and Edwin Melendez. Mink Coats Don't Trickle Down: The Economic Attack on Women and People of Color (South End Press, 1988).

Baxter, Sheila. Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Other True Stories (Press Gang Publishers, 1997).

Bennett, Sara and Joan Gibbs (eds). Top Ranking: Racism and Classism in the Lesbian Community (February 3 Press, 1980).

Bradley, Harriet. Men's Work, Women's Work (University of Minnesota Press, 1989).

Croteau, David. Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle Class Left (Temple University Press, 1995).

Davis, Angela. Women, Race, and Class (Random House, 1983).

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel andDimed: On (not) Getting By in America (Metropolitan Books, 2001).

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (Harper Collins, 1990).

Fine, Michelle and Lois Weis. The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults (Beacon Press, 1998).

Folbre, Nancy and Randy Pearl Albelda. The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual (New Press, 1996).

Griffiths, Sian. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World (Manchester University Press, 1996).

Herivel, Tara and Paul Wright (eds). Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor (Routledge, 2003).

hooks, bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters (Routledge, 2000).

Hughes, Dorothy Pitman. Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner City is This Anyway? One Woman's Struggle Against Sexism, Classism, Racism, Gentrification, and the Empowerment Zone (Amber Books, 2000).

Kadi, Joanna. Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker (South End Press, 1996).

Leacock, Eleanor and Helen I. Safa. Women's Work (Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1986).

Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua (eds). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Kitchen Table - Women of Color Press, 1984).

Payne, Ruby and Don Krabill. Hidden Rules of Class at Work (Aha Process Inc., 2002).

Payne, Ruby K. A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Aha Process Inc., 2001).

Penelope, Julia (ed.) Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak (Crossing Press, 1994).

Phillips, Kevin. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (Broadway, 2003).

Raffo, Susan (ed). Queerly Classed (South End Press, 1997).

Rubin, Lillian B. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family (New York: Basic Books, 1992).

seccombe, Karen. So You Think I Drive a Cadillac: Welfare Recipients' Perspective on the System and Its Reform (Pearson, Allyn & Bacon, 1999).

Sennett, Richard and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden Injuries of Class (New York: Knopf/Vintage Books, 1972/New York: Norton, 1993).

Stout, Linda. Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing (Beacon Press, 1997).

Tea, Michelle (ed.) Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing up Working Class (Seal Press, 2003).

Weis, Lois and Michelle Fine (eds.) Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).

Weis, Lois and Michelle Fine. Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class and Gender Among Urban Youth (Teachers College Press, 2000).

Willis, Paul E. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, cl977).

Zweig, Michael. The Working Class Majority .'America's Best-Kept secret (Cornell University Press, 2000).

Zweig, Michael (ed). What's Class Got to Do With It? American Society in the Twenty-First Century (ILR Press, 2004).