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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • 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 303 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 93 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 161 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 229 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 585 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....

    Regular price: $24.49

    • Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
    • By: Donald A. Barr MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The health-care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 970 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....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
    • By: Matthew D. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 908 ratings
    • In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 40 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 225 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
    • By: Hannah McElhinney
    • Narrated by: Rudy Jean Rigg
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet....

    Regular price: $10.73

    • 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 203 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
    • By: Robert Frank
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through Richistan entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.34

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.77