📚 Working Class

Books with working class on their catalogue record, first published between 1851 and 2012, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject working class in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 33,289 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
	Autobiography	Andrew Carnegie	1920	48
	Living my Life	Emma Goldman	1931	40
	War of the Classes	Jack London	1905	31
	The making of the English working class	E. P. Thompson	1963	30
	The uses of literacy	Richard Hoggart	1957	26
	Working	Studs Terkel	1972	26
	Life and labour of the people in London	Charles Booth	1892	25
	Sozialgeschichte der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung	Wolfgang Abendroth	1965	25
	Droit à la paresse	Paul Lafargue	1907	21
	Unemployment	Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge Baron	1909	21
	The man farthest down	Booker T. Washington	1912	17
	Situations	Jean-Paul Sartre	1947	15
	Alliance of the working class and the peasantry	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1959	14
	Learning to Labour	Paul E. Willis	1977	14
	Chronique des Indiens Guayaki	Pierre Clastres	1972	12
	The Corrosion of Character	Richard Sennett	1998	12
	Women's work and wages	Edward Cadbury	1906	11
	The hidden injuries of class	Richard Sennett	1972	11
	Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business	Daniel Defoe	2012	11
	Travail dans l'Europe chrétienne au moyen âge	P. Boissonnade	1927	9
	A question of slavery	Duffy, James	1967	9
	Gender and the politics of history	Joan Wallach Scott	1988	9
	From the folks who brought you the weekend	Priscilla Murolo	2000	8
	Beat Generation	Jack Kerouac	2005	7
	Industrial Accident Prevention	Herbert William Heinrich	1931	5
	The Classic Slum	Roberts, Robert	1971	5
	The Wages of Whiteness	David R. Roediger	1991	5

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

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