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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....
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Worth a read
- By annajam on 05-10-20
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives....
By: Sarah Jaffe
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
By: Jane McAlevey
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Fair Pay
- How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
- By: David Buckmaster
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap....
By: David Buckmaster
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Blood Runs Coal
- The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- By: Mark A. Bradley
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....
By: Mark A. Bradley
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
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For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....
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Nice listen with lots of real world factss
- By Gary S. on 16-10-19
By: Grace Blakeley
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....
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Worth a read
- By annajam on 05-10-20
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives....
By: Sarah Jaffe
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
By: Jane McAlevey
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Fair Pay
- How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
- By: David Buckmaster
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap....
By: David Buckmaster
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Blood Runs Coal
- The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- By: Mark A. Bradley
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....
By: Mark A. Bradley
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
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For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....
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Nice listen with lots of real world factss
- By Gary S. on 16-10-19
By: Grace Blakeley
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The War on Normal People
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....
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Scary and inspirational
- By Nick Ball on 01-08-18
By: Andrew Yang
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood
- The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
- By: Richard Rashke
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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Richard Rashke leads us through the myriad of charges and countercharges, theories and facts, and reaches conclusions based solely on the evidence in hand....
By: Richard Rashke
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Machiavelli for Women
- Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
- By: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Narrated by: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes a guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling....
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Don’t CIS me!
- By At this for too long. on 16-07-22
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- By: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....
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Excellent
- By Suke on 22-06-23
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Ruined by Design
- How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
- By: Mike Monteiro
- Narrated by: Mike Monteiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence....
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Brutally honest
- By Waxmagenta on 17-02-21
By: Mike Monteiro
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Capital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 104 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'....
By: Karl Marx
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Human + Machine
- Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
- By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time....
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Great intro in AI and it's applications
- By Raymond on 23-12-18
By: Paul R. Daugherty, and others
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....
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excellent and sad story of a town
- By rikki on 17-08-20
By: Amy Goldstein
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The Communist Manifesto
- With an Introduction by Yanis Varoufakis
- By: Karl Marx, Yanis Varoufakis - introduction
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. This edition includes a new introduction by the economist and best-selling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis....
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10/10
- By Conor Geoghegan on 11-12-23
By: Karl Marx, and others
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After Work
- A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
- By: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek present a vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics....
By: Helen Hester, and others
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Rank and File
- Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
- By: Alice Lynd - editor, Staughton Lynd - editor
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond, Jeanette Illidge, Tiffany Morgan, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this long-out-of-print oral history classic, Alice and Staughton Lynd chronicle the stories of more than two dozen working-class organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked out, picketed, and found other bold and innovative ways to fight for workers' rights....
By: Alice Lynd - editor, and others
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Hired
- Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
- By: James Bloodworth
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the time trials of a council care worker and the grim reality behind the glossy Uber app, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very front line of low-wage Britain....
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A Wigan Pier for the 21st Century
- By Kid Ooshi on 18-07-19
By: James Bloodworth
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Wall Street's War on Workers
- How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It
- By: Les Leopold
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wall Street’s War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of the Labor Institute, provides a clear lens with which we can see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of employees....
By: Les Leopold
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Children of the Mill
- True Stories from Quarry Bank
- By: David Hanson
- Narrated by: John Lightbody
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mill - set in early 19th-century Cheshire - was Channel 4's biggest drama launch of 2013....
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Insightful and entertaining
- By Miss Rhiannon M Lewis on 05-01-18
By: David Hanson
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Private Government
- How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
- By: Elizabeth Anderson
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives....
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The Problem with Work
- Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
- By: Kathi Weeks
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....
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Disagree With Almost All of this, But…
- By catherinespark on 18-04-24
By: Kathi Weeks
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Brotopia
- Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasy land of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules....
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an eye opener
- By Rick Da-Ruler on 07-07-19
By: Emily Chang
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The Wages of Whiteness
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Reasonable Historical Tome
- By Snowball on 04-03-22
By: David R. Roediger, and others
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Just Business
- Multinational Corporations and Human Rights
- By: John Gerard Ruggie
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business....
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Means and Ends
- The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
- By: Zoe Baker
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice....
By: Zoe Baker
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....
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Amazing
- By wordec on 20-11-19
By: Shane Bauer
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology (Annotated)
- The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
- By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....
By: Peter Kropotkin, and others
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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
- By: Tansy E. Hoskins, Andreja Pejić - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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The award-winning classic on why we must revolutionise the fashion industry....
By: Tansy E. Hoskins, and others
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Live Work Work Work Die
- A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
- By: Corey Pein
- Narrated by: Corey Pein
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit....
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interesting, funny
- By Mael Dujardin on 02-04-21
By: Corey Pein