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Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld

Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld is a collection of Yiddish poetry centered on the lives, struggles, and aspirations of working-class immigrants and laborers. Rosenfeld draws on his own experiences to portray poverty, exhausting work, family hardship, love, and the hope for a more just society. Written with strong emotion and social…

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking argument for the intellectual, moral, and social equality of women. Wollstonecraft challenges the prevailing belief that women were naturally inferior to men, arguing instead that women appeared less capable largely because society denied them meaningful education and encouraged them to cultivate…

Naked Warriors by Herbert Read

Naked Warriors by Herbert Read is a slim 1919 collection of war poetry drawn directly from the author’s experiences as a soldier in World War I. The poems present vivid, often stark snapshots of trench warfare—capturing fear, violence, exhaustion, and moments of uneasy humanity. Rather than glorifying war, Read strips it down to its psychological…

Amalgamation by Jay Fox – Rostie Publishing

“Amalgamation” argues that the principal weakness of the American labor movement is its fragmentation by craft (trade) unions, which limits the workers’ collective power. Fox contends that the path forward…

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