Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - 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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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Nancy Marie Brown

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous medium-paced
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

Olivia Campbell

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative slow-paced
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation by Natalie Nourigat

I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation

Natalie Nourigat

96 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction comics memoir reflective slow-paced
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E. Patricia Tsurumi

Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan

E. Patricia Tsurumi

228 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion

Hilary Davidson

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction design history literary informative slow-paced
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction business economics politics informative reflective medium-paced
Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production by Erin Hill

Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production

Erin Hill

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction feminism informative medium-paced
Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry by Kathleen McLaughlin

Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry

Kathleen McLaughlin

missing page info • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction politics
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver

Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

Amanda Oliver

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced