Published books

The Great Depression was not only an economic event. It broke apart communities, forced families from their homes, and intensified discrimination against people who already had little political protection. This focused edition examines ordinary life during the crisis and the unequal burdens placed on Mexican American and immigrant families.

The book discusses Mexican repatriation, displacement, rural migration, and the struggle to belong during a period of fear and scarcity. It also follows the people and reformers who concluded that national recovery required more than charity or local action.…

This book follows the transformation of national policy as the New Deal created jobs, relief programs, Social Security, wage protections, and a new legal framework for organized labor. These programs reflected a basic idea: government has a duty to protect people from economic forces they cannot control alone.

The chapters examine the Civilian Conservation Corps, early relief programs, Social Security, fair labor standards, the Wagner Act, and the rise of industrial unionism. They explain how public programs and worker organization helped rebuild purchasing power and confidence.…

The New Deal expanded public responsibility, but reform was neither peaceful nor complete. Workers faced violence, corporations resisted union power, political institutions fought over constitutional authority, and many women and minority communities remained excluded from equal opportunity.

This edition examines the Memorial Day Massacre, the court-packing conflict, the limits of New Deal inclusion, the formation of a new political coalition, and the economic mobilization that accompanied World War II. It shows how progress was shaped by pressure from below as well as decisions in Washington.…

This book traces the institutions and movements that helped produce a broad American middle class after the Depression and World War II. Union contracts raised wages, improved benefits, and gave workers a collective voice, while civil-rights movements challenged discrimination in law, employment, education, and public life.

The chapters connect the postwar labor movement with modern civil rights and the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez. They also examine the exclusions that prevented prosperity from reaching everyone equally.…

Modern workers face old questions in new forms: who has power at work, who receives protection, and who bears the risk when business models change. This book examines labor rights as civil rights through the experiences of women, immigrant workers, public employees, contract workers, and people managed by algorithms.

The chapters address equal opportunity, workplace safety, public service, misclassification, surveillance, scheduling technology, and the responsibility of employers and government. Innovation cannot excuse discrimination, retaliation, unsafe conditions, or denial of organizing rights.

A fair economy must protect every worker regardless of state, occupation, immigration background, or employment label.

This book presents a forward-looking program to rebuild worker power and limit corporate domination. It calls for organizing rights in every state, collective bargaining, safer conditions, fair classification, strong enforcement, apprenticeships, and a workers bill of rights suited to the modern economy.

The program also proposes fairer taxation of corporate profits and investment income and stronger action against mega corporations that control entire industries. Competitive markets require serious merger review, antitrust enforcement, transparent contracting, whistleblower protection, and meaningful penalties.…

Housing is the infrastructure of family life. This book explains how stable and affordable homes connect people to employment, education, health care, transportation, and community. When supply fails to meet need, families pay through rising rents, long commutes, overcrowding, displacement, and homelessness.

The chapters propose building and preserving affordable housing through public housing, nonprofit development, community land trusts, cooperatives, and responsible private construction tied to enforceable affordability. They also address accessibility, anti-displacement measures, and coordinating homes with schools, clinics, utilities, parks, and transit.…

Schools and health-care institutions are physical infrastructure and networks of skilled people. This book presents a coordinated plan to modernize public schools, expand access to colleges and universities, strengthen skilled-trades education, and build hospitals and neighborhood medical clinics where they are needed most.

The chapters address safe school buildings, ventilation, technology, libraries, laboratories, community colleges, apprenticeships, research universities, rural hospitals, tribal facilities, public-health laboratories, mental-health services, and emergency preparedness.…

Transportation and water systems shape daily life even when people rarely notice them. This book proposes a repair-first strategy for roads and bridges, dependable public transit, safe streets, clean drinking water, modern sewers, and stronger protection against floods and drought.

The chapters connect inspection, preventive maintenance, disability access, freight movement, buses, rail, paratransit, lead-pipe replacement, stormwater systems, utility affordability, and resilient construction. Delayed maintenance becomes a hidden tax paid through damaged vehicles, lost time, higher bills, disrupted service, and preventable danger.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book I: Buying Access to Government examines how enormous private fortunes can influence access to political power. Following the money through presidential inaugural donations, federal contracts, technology companies, financial disclosures, media ownership, and government decisions, the authors explain how wealth and public authority have become increasingly intertwined.…