Labor Rights

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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,089 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,043 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Kate Manning
    • Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Sylvie Pelletier is the irrepressible young heroine of this sweeping historical novel, set in Moonstone, Colorado, 1907. Hers is the tale of a hardscrabble education, about right and wrong, and the consequences of speaking out against injustice....

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    • The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
    • By: Douglas A. Blackmon
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,999 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....

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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 60 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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    • 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 499 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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    • 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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    • 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 3 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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    • Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night Time Economy
    • By: Stacey Clare
    • Narrated by: Stacey Clare
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this powerful book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry - the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work, and stigma....

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    • The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
    • By: Molly Smith, Juno Mac
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?

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    • One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
    • By: Gillian Thomas
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever....

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    • Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know, 2nd Edition
    • By: Max Muller
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Extensively revised, the second edition of The Manager's Guide to HR covers all the key areas and brings listeners up to speed on current developments in employment law....

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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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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 124 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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    • The History of Labor in the United States
    • By: J. Albert Mann
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.

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