American Labor

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
    • By: Steven Greenhouse
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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    • By: Philip Nicholson
    • Narrated by: Brian E. Smith
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in 20 years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • An American Story
    • By: Amy Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 454 ratings
    • This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....

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    • Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
    • By: Julius G. Getman
    • Narrated by: Kyle A Northcott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines....

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    • The Life of Nate Shaw
    • By: Theodore Rosengarten
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • All God's Dangers is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....

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    • What Happens to People When Work Disappears
    • By: Farah Stockman
    • Narrated by: Farah Stockman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do

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    • 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 1,049 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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    • A childhood rivalry and the biggest labor dispute in sports history...
    • By: A.J. Gordon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This nostalgic page-turner is full of humor and heart! Aloha, Oregon, Summer 1994… Rick Reese, a sports obsessed family man and factory worker ...

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • By: Eugene V. Debs
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As of the date of publication (March 2022), this is by far the largest collection of Eugene V. Debs' writings available in audio. Published in 1916, it is a compilation of his writings and his speeches to conventions and other large gatherings, from the years of his greatest influence....

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    • Slave Labor and the Making of America
    • By: Renee K. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Renee K. Harrison
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade....

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    • The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
    • By: John Barnard
    • Narrated by: Jeff D Konrad
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important chapter in the story of American democracy....

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    • By: Joyce Maynard
    • Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • With the end of summer closing in, 13-year-old Henry spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of his female classmates....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Earle Labor
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast....

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