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 134 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 91 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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    • 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 4 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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    • 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 62 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 127 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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    • 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 268 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,054 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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    • From Village to City in a Changing China
    • By: Leslie T. Chang
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • i>Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society....

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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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    • 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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    • A Memoir of Steel and Grit
    • By: Eliese Colette Goldbach
    • Narrated by: Kelly Pekar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A young woman's debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as she returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland....

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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 479 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....

    Regular price: $17.09

    • Reviving manual trades, rural labor, and local businesses through reduced regulation.
    • By: Richard Brown
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • Made Again is my answer to a question I believe millions of Americans are now asking: Can we return to a country that values real work, honors ...

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