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  • The Radium Girls Audiobook By Kate Moore cover art

    • The Radium Girls

    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,558 ratings
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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  • Bullshit Jobs Audiobook By David Graeber cover art

    • Bullshit Jobs

    • A Theory
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,434 ratings

    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

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  • Holding the Line Audiobook By Barbara Kingsolver cover art

    • Holding the Line

    • Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
    • By: Barbara Kingsolver
    • Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Jennifer Jill Araya
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....

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  • American Prison Audiobook By Shane Bauer cover art

    • American Prison

    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043 ratings

    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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  • The Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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  • Flying Blind Audiobook By Peter Robison cover art

    • Flying Blind

    • The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
    • By: Peter Robison
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings

    • Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....

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  • Nickel and Dimed Audiobook By Barbara Ehrenreich cover art

    • Nickel and Dimed

    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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  • A History of America in Ten Strikes Audiobook By Erik Loomis cover art

    • A History of America in Ten Strikes

    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings

    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

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  • Do Less Audiobook By Kate Northrup cover art

    • Do Less

    • A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
    • By: Kate Northrup
    • Narrated by: Kate Northrup
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 608 ratings

    • This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....

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  • Work Won't Love You Back Audiobook By Sarah Jaffe cover art

    • Work Won't Love You Back

    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • By: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings

    • A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives....

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  • Consequences of Capitalism Audiobook By Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone cover art

    • Consequences of Capitalism

    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings

    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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  • Valley So Low Audiobook By Jared Sullivan cover art

    • Valley So Low

    • One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
    • By: Jared Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Jared Sullivan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Jared Sullivan presents a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought.

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  • The Utopia of Rules Audiobook By David Graeber cover art

    • The Utopia of Rules

    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings

    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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  • Feeding the Machine Audiobook By Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon cover art

    • Feeding the Machine

    • The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
    • By: Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • A.I. is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity’s collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book is a call to arms that details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.

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  • The Socialist Manifesto Audiobook By Bhaskar Sunkara cover art

    • The Socialist Manifesto

    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings

    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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  • The War on Normal People Audiobook By Andrew Yang cover art

    • The War on Normal People

    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,177 ratings

    • An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....

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  • The Meritocracy Trap Audiobook By Daniel Markovits cover art

    • The Meritocracy Trap

    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings

    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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  • No Shortcuts Audiobook By Jane F. McAlevey cover art

    • No Shortcuts

    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings

    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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  • Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Audiobook By Seth Holmes cover art

    • Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

    • Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
    • By: Seth Holmes
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care....

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  • Power Failure Audiobook By MiMi Swartz, Sherron Watkins cover art

    • Power Failure

    • The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
    • By: MiMi Swartz, Sherron Watkins
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • From inside the walls of Enron, a lone whistleblower attempted to avert the course of events leading to the largest bankruptcy in American history....

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