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Jane Addams examines commercial sexual exploitation through labor conditions, civic responsibility, public policy, and the education of young people.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman examines how male-centered assumptions shape literature, education, institutions, and the organization of everyday social life.

Thorstein Veblen investigates nationalism, vested interests, democratic institutions, and the economic arrangements that sustain war or make lasting peace possible.

Jane Addams relates the pursuit of peace to city government, industrial relations, immigrant life, women’s participation, and the protection of children.

Jane Addams examines how democratic obligations reshape charity, family life, domestic service, industry, education, and political reform.

Belloc examines wage dependence, concentrated property, and the political forces that might turn free workers into a legally dependent class.

Follett proposes a democracy built through neighborhood groups, collective decision making, and the integration of differing interests in public life.

Treatises associated with Shang Yang examine legal reform, agriculture, warfare, rewards, punishments, and the organization of a powerful state.

Kropotkin’s classic argument presents cooperation as a major force in evolution and social life.

Bagehot links early social evolution, political institutions, and national character in a classic Victorian argument.

A Victorian political novel of Young England, faith, empire, reform, and aristocratic imagination.

A foundational essay on conscience, state power, tax resistance, and the moral limits of government.

A landmark conservative response to the French Revolution, tradition, reform, rights, and political order.

A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

A radical Enlightenment argument on justice, reason, government, property, and human improvement.

A public-domain classic on individualism, art, poverty, freedom, charity, and social criticism.

A foundational work on law, society, custom, contract, family, property, and political development.

A utopian political sequel exploring industrial organization, economic justice, citizenship, labor, and equality.

A social and political novel about class division, industrial England, reform, poverty, and national identity.

A classic politics work on Progressive Era reform, democracy, monopoly power, competition, and public responsibility.

A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.

A landmark legal classic on precedent, liability, rights, duties, and the historical life of law.

A major collection of political essays on freedom, labor, education, prisons, and women’s rights.

Hobson’s influential analysis of empire, finance, markets, militarism, and modern political economy.