Labor History

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    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

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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 86 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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    • A Theory
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,452 ratings
    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 414 ratings
    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 521 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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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 123 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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    • West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....

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    • Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
    • By: Mary Grabar
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 758 ratings
    • Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression is an agenda-driven fairy tale....

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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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 1,585 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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    • An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
    • By: Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 266 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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