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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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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41,309 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs....

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    • An Informal History of the 1920s
    • By: Frederick Lewis Allen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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    • 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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    • A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It
    • By: Les Leopold
    • Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Wall Street’s War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of the Labor Institute, provides a clear lens with which we can see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of employees....

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    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • By: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

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    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • By: Annie Lowrey
    • Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 325 ratings
    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

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    • The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
    • By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....

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    • A Critique of Political Economy
    • By: Karl Marx
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams
    • Series: Critique of Political Economy, Book 1-3
    • Length: 104 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-23
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'....

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • By: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
    • By: Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Two bestselling authors deliver a bold new interpretation of why technology has all too often benefited elites - and how we must reshape the path of innovation to create true shared prosperity....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • By: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
    • By: Miriam Pawel
    • Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
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    • A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable....

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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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