Social Class

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • By: Keith Payne
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 680 ratings
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • A Theory of the Aspirational Class
    • By: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
    • Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class"....

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    • The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
    • By: Hugh Brewster
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
    • By: Madeline Levine PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of mental illness....

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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 1,609 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: Thorstein Veblen
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....

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    • Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
    • By: Ashley Mears
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 969 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • How Societal Rank Influences Interaction
    • By: Susan T. Fiske, Hazel Rose Markus
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn't matter....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: P. W. Singer, Allan Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 584 ratings
    • Best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyberexpert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of deeply informative resource book that has been missing on a crucial issue of 21st-century life....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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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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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • By: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

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