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  • Unbroken Chains

    The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

    by Melissa Ditmore ...
    An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy—from the stories of its survivorsThe years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light the exploitation of workers. In this moment of heightened visibility, Unbroken Chains demands that readers examine the hidden sector of American trafficked labor and understand its prevalence across ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Unbroken Chains

    The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

    by Melissa Ditmore ...
    Narrated by Jenni Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy—from the stories of its survivorsThe years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light the exploitation of workers. In this moment of heightened visibility, Unbroken Chains demands that readers examine the hidden sector of American trafficked labor and understand its prevalence across ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Sex Work Matters

    Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

    by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, Giulia Garofalo, Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Kerwin Kaye, Patty Kelly, Juline Koken, Barbara G. Brents, Rebecca Pates, Maggie O'Neill, Melissa Petro, Jane Pitcher, Daniel Schmidt, Jo Weldon, Carrie M. Hobbs, Kate Hausbeck, Anne Dölemeyer, Laura Mara Agustn ...
    Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Prostitution and Sex Work

    by Melissa Hope Ditmore ...
    Series series Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America
    A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes.Prostitution and Sex Work is the first book since 1921 to offer a historic overview of this controversial topic—and what our views on it say about American society. Exploring key people, places, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Nobody

    Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

    by Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceNautilus Award Winner“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —*The New York Times***From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems ... ... Read more

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  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    by Alexandra Natapoff ...
    From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar ... Read more

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  • Abolition for the People

    The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick ...
    Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices—political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and ... Read more

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  • Resistance Behind Bars

    The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women

    by Victoria Law ...
    In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.While many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist ... Read more

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  • None of Your Damn Business

    Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

    by Lawrence Cappello ...
    A "thorough and lively" investigation into the history of privacy in America, why so many of us have surrendered it, and the implications for our future ( American Historical Review).Every day, Americans surrender their private information to entities claiming to have their best interests in mind. This trade-off has long been taken for granted, but the extent of its nefariousness has recently ... Read more

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  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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  • White Rage

    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    by Carol Anderson ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York TimesBestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA New York TimesNotable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil W... ... Read more

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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