English Working Class

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    • By: E.P. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....

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    • By: Friedrich Engels
    • Narrated by: Derek Le Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Engels set out to show that the working classes in factories were far worse off in terms of general health, life expectancy, working hours and working conditions than they had been in the agricultural environment that existed in previous centuries....

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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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    • 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 377 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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    • By: Jimmy Barnes
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
    • Series: Working Class Boy, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • It’s a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan....

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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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    • Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
    • By: Christine M. Beckman, Melissa Mazmanian
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices....

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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 35 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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    • By: Jimmy Barnes
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
    • Series: Working Class Boy, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....

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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 1,575 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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    • By: Jamie L. Bronstein
    • Narrated by: Lianne Walker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • The Happiness of the British Working Class employs and analyzes over 350 autobiographies of individuals in England, Scotland, and Ireland to explore the sources of happiness of British working people born before 1870....

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    • A Story of Hope in Depression-Era Watertown
    • By: Desire Night
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Bridges We Build" takes readers into the heart of Watertown, New York, during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Through the eyes of Maggie...

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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
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • 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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    • By: Jimmy Barnes
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
    • Series: Working Class Boy, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working-class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • By: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States....

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    • A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison
    • By: Gary Tillery
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • John Lennon called himself a working class hero. George Harrison was a working class mystic. Born in Liverpool as the son of a bus conductor and a shop assistant, for the first six years of his life he lived in a house with no indoor bathroom....

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    • By: Colin Burnett
    • Narrated by: Patrick Wallace
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
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    • Written entirely in East Coast Scots, A Working Class State of Mind, the debut book by Colin Burnett, brings the everyday reality and language of life in Scotland to the surface....

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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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    • Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
    • By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

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