Social Class

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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....

    $17.16 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 59 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....

    $25.79 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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....

    $24.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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 164 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....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 305 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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    • 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....

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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 586 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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    • 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 232 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

    $19.95 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 971 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 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 95 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....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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....

    $19.74 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Stephanie Land
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.”

    $18.74 or free with 30-day trial

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

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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....

    $10.73 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 204 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 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....

    $20.00 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 210 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....

    $14.61 or free with your Plus trial

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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....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial