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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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

288 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history technology challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne

Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770

Emily Cockayne

352 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York by Joy Santlofer

Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York

Joy Santlofer

480 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-Wen Cheng

Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China

Hsiao-Wen Cheng

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman

Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

James Suzman

464 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative 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

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced
A Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel

A Participatory Economy

Robin Hahnel

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics informative medium-paced
Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization by Victor H. Mair, Frances Wood, Sanping Chen

Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization

Victor H. Mair, Frances Wood, Sanping Chen

232 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies

Life in a Medieval Village

Frances Gies

272 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do by Studs Terkel

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

Studs Terkel

640 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sociology reflective slow-paced