Social Class

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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,639 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Reckoning with the Public Library
    • By: Amanda Oliver
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at an "unusual" branch: Northwest One....

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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 111 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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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
    • By: Alison Stewart
    • Narrated by: Alison Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence....

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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 967 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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    • The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
    • By: Jennifer Morton
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work....

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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 202 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 151 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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    • A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
    • By: Rob Henderson
    • Narrated by: Rob Henderson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 357 ratings
    • Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California....

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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 187 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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    • 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 299 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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    • 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 574 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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    • World Orders and Catastrophic Change
    • By: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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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 1,575 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 89 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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    • The Limits of Progressive Politics
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States....

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