Erik Loomis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Labor historian. 1st Gen. Receipt keeper of American evil, then & now. Academic union thug. Extremely unromantic takes on the labor movement. Beer. Music.
The Iron Heel
Jack LondonErik LoomisIn The Iron Heel, Jack London portrayed Farley as the main lackey of the capitalists who install the violent dictatorship called The Oligarchy, before he is assassinated in 1932 by the widow of a worker he had murdered in a strike thirty years earlier.
Paperback, 2006
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason BerryErik Loomis@Noahpinion 47.Michele Williams and Vishwas Satgar, eds., Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Authoritarian Politics 48.Jason Berry, City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Paperback, 2021
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Mao II
Don DelilloErik LoomisSo I thought I'd read DeLillo's Mao II for the first time in like 15 years and it is just me or does this novel not hold up at all?
Paperback, 1992
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Daniel Martinez HosangErik Loomis@Noahpinion 5.Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity 6.Michele Ford, From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Hardcover, 2019
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The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition
John SteinbeckErik LoomisJohn Steinbeck may have movingly told the story of white migrants to the California fields in The Grapes of Wrath, but he almost totally leaves out the history of Mexican labor in those same fields.
Hardcover, 2014
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: (illustrated edition)
Harriet Beecher StoweErik LoomisThis became the nation’s best-selling novel until Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. It spoke to the growing frustration in the working classes over the poverty, corruption, and political indifference that hampered their lives.
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Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest Over the Industrial Order
Stefan J. LinkErik Loomis@Noahpinion 69.Clarence Taylor, Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City 70.Stefan J. Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order 71.Sharra Vostral, Toxic Shock: A Social History
Paperback, 2023
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Kronstadt
V. I. LeninErik LoomisOn March 7, Soviet forces, commanded by Leon Trotsky, attacked Kronstadt, with 60,000 troops under Mikhail Tukhachevsky. If this had not worked, Trotsky was ready to gas the workers. Martial law was imposed on the workers of Petrograd. This was violent and bloody.
Paperback, 1979
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Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Caitlin ZaloomErik Loomis@Noahpinion 60.Casey Cater, Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South 61.Richard J. Orsi, Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930 62.Caitlin Zaloom, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Paperback, 2021
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