Labor Wars

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    • America’s Deadliest Labor War
    • By: Thomas G. Andrews
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead....

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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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    • By: Jim Clifton
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Drawing on 75 years of Gallup studies and his own perspective as the company's chairman and CEO, Jim Clifton explains why jobs are the new global currency for leaders....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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....

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    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,562 ratings
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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    • The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
    • By: Mark Bulik
    • Narrated by: Josh Innerst
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires....

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    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,177 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....

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    • By: Nick Russell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • The 1930s are the darkest days of the Great Depression. Factories are closing their doors, millions of people are out of work, men are riding the ...

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of the United States of America (U.S. Military History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Saffir
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century? The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed....

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
    • By: Stefan Waydenfeld
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north....

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    • A Woman's Story of Survival
    • By: Franci Rabinek Epstein
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Helen Epstein
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein....

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    • The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
    • By: Jean Helion
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps....

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    • The Streetcar Strike of 1900
    • By: Ken Zimmerman Jr.
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • St. Louis' Bloody Labor Dispute On Saturday, May 5, 1900 at 11:30 p.m., the bombing of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad ...

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    • By: Donna Fletcher Crow
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • “Half a league, half a league/ Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred.” Lieutenant Richard Greyston seeks ...

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    • A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance
    • By: Sasha Colby
    • Narrated by: Allyson Voller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany....

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    • How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
    • By: Adam D. Mendelsohn
    • Narrated by: Amanda Terman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless....

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