📚 Labor

Books with labor on their catalogue record, first published between 1845 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject labor in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 166,987 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Le droit à la paresse	Paul Lafargue	1893	93
	London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. I)	Henry Mayhew	1851	66
	Time and tide	John Ruskin	1867	62
	The workers	Walter Augustus Wyckoff	1897	35
	The town labourer, 1760-1832	John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond	1917	35
	Self-government in industry	G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole	1917	34
	War of the Classes	Jack London	1905	31
	The making of the English working class	E. P. Thompson	1963	30
	The autobiography of Mother Jones	Mary "Mother" Jones	1925	26
	Working	Studs Terkel	1972	26
	Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England	Friedrich Engels	1845	25
	Sozialgeschichte der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung	Wolfgang Abendroth	1965	25
	The economics of welfare	A. C. Pigou	1920	18
	Contemporary labour economics	Campbell R. McConnell	1986	18
	The condition of the working-class in England in 1844	Friedrich Engels	1887	17
	The human problems of an industrial civilization	Elton Mayo	1933	17
	Bill Haywood’s Book	Big Bill Haywood	1929	16
	A history of American labor	Joseph G. Rayback	1950	14
	Alliance of the working class and the peasantry	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1959	14
	Sabotage	Emile Pouget	1911	13
	La condition ouvriere	Simone Weil	1951	12
	Chronique des Indiens Guayaki	Pierre Clastres	1972	12
	The Corrosion of Character	Richard Sennett	1998	12
	Labouring men	Eric Hobsbawm	1964	11
	The hidden injuries of class	Richard Sennett	1972	11
	The motivation to work	Frederick Herzberg	1959	9
	Good Economics for Hard Times	Abhijit Banerjee	2019	9
	Strategy for labor	André Gorz	1967	8
	From the folks who brought you the weekend	Priscilla Murolo	2000	8
	Spiritual midwifery	Ina May Gaskin	1975	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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