Working Class History

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    • By: Friedrich Engels
    • Narrated by: Derek Le Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Engels set out to show that the working classes in factories were far worse off in terms of general health, life expectancy, working hours and working conditions than they had been in the agricultural environment that existed in previous centuries....

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    • By: E.P. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....

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    • SC Marva Collins, Book 2
    • By: Nathan Lowell
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Series: SC Marva Collins, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • When Ishmael takes a crew of academy cadets into the Toe Holds, he's unprepared for the level of trouble green hands can get into. Meanwhile, their academy liaison discovers what can go wrong when you learn the wrong lessons and try to teach the wrong students....

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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 55 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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    • 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 1,585 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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    • The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
    • By: Nicholas Lemann
    • Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Nicholas Lemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Over the last generation, stable US institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality....

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    • Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
    • By: Henry Olsen
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal....

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    • A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison
    • By: Gary Tillery
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • John Lennon called himself a working class hero. George Harrison was a working class mystic. Born in Liverpool as the son of a bus conductor and a shop assistant, for the first six years of his life he lived in a house with no indoor bathroom....

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    • The Roots of the Black Working Class
    • By: Blair L.M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story....

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    • Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
    • By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

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    • A New Working History of the American Way of Life
    • By: Adam Chandler
    • Narrated by: Adam Chandler
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
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    • 99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.

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    • The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
    • By: Karen Lystra
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.

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    • A Brief History of Anti-Populism
    • By: Thomas Frank
    • Narrated by: Thomas Frank
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong....

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

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    • A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
    • By: Carlos Lozada
    • Narrated by: Christian Barillas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest....

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    • Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
    • By: Robin D.G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve....

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    • Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
    • By: David Paul Kuhn
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody....

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