Labor Relations

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    • Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Jane McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....

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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 436 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 113 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

    Regular price: $8.59

    • 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 1,617 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 78 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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    • 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 373 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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    • 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 2,494 ratings
    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • By: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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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 379 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.99

    • 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 305 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....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • By: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
    • By: Elizabeth Anderson
    • Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives....

    Regular price: $13.99

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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....

    Regular price: $22.35

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 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....

    Regular price: $17.19