Worldbuilder's Book Club 2024 - hosted by quartzen

Work, Labor, and Daily Life
Choose a book about contemporary or historical work, labor, or daily life, including books about specific jobs, organized labor, the daily life people like homemakers or disabled people who may not be considered part of the "workforce" historically, an overview of daily life in a place or time contemporary or historical, aspects of daily life like cooking, and related topics.
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In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung

In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers

Bernice Yeung

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics informative slow-paced
Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order by Christopher J. Fuhrmann

Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order

Christopher J. Fuhrmann

330 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Amanda H. Podany

541 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

338 pages • first pub 1994 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
The Grand Domestic Revolution by Dolores Hayden

The Grand Domestic Revolution

Dolores Hayden

367 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative slow-paced
The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase

The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House

Tessa Boase

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective sad slow-paced
Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge

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

Lucy Lethbridge

385 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney

Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

Alison Maloney

192 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative medium-paced
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

327 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative reflective medium-paced