America Working Class

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    • How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
    • By: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more.

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    • SC Marva Collins, Book 2
    • By: Nathan Lowell
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Series: SC Marva Collins, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • When Ishmael takes a crew of academy cadets into the Toe Holds, he's unprepared for the level of trouble green hands can get into. Meanwhile, their academy liaison discovers what can go wrong when you learn the wrong lessons and try to teach the wrong students....

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    • 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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    • Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
    • By: Joan C. Williams
    • Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class....

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • The Roots of the Black Working Class
    • By: Blair L.M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story....

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    • Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
    • By: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.

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    • Invisible in America
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....

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    • Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
    • By: Robin D.G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
    • By: Andrew J. Cherlin
    • Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Labor's Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America....

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

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    • The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
    • By: Nicholas Lemann
    • Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Nicholas Lemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Over the last generation, stable US institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality....

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    • A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
    • By: Carlos Lozada
    • Narrated by: Christian Barillas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest....

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    • Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
    • By: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,597 ratings
    • Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left....

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    • A People's History of Self-Determination
    • By: Herb Boyd
    • Narrated by: James Shippy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit - a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage....

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    • The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
    • By: Max Fraser
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work....

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    • The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
    • By: Karen Lystra
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.

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    • How the New Working Class Will Transform America
    • By: Tamara Draut
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • What does working class mean in today's America? Today's workers don't just man the assembly lines. They watch our children and aging parents, park our cars, screen our luggage....

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