Showing titles in Social Classes & Economic Disparity
-
-
Moving Up without Losing Your Way
- The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
- By: Jennifer Morton
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4
-
Performance4
-
Story4
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, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.
Preview -
Moving Up without Losing Your Way
- The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.70 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Start Again
- How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
- By: Philip Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance8
-
Story8
‘The bible for The Independent Group and many others’ Nick Robinson, Today Programme Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics Britain is today divided old against young, class against class, region...
Preview -
Start Again
- How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.78 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Baronesses
- By: Rachel Watkyn, Claire Hornby
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The Box Of Secrets, he said weakly, was under his bed. It had a padlock. The padlock key was with some other items in the safe. We were under strict instructions not to open the box until after his death. He said I knew what the safe code was. I wasn't entirely sure that I did... To the outside...
-
The Baronesses
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 03-09-26
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£24.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- By: Chad Broughton
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3
-
Performance3
-
Story3
In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
-
-
Blue collar History.
- By simon cooke on 25-07-20
Preview -
Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-01-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£16.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Overdue
- Reckoning with the Public Library
- By: Amanda Oliver
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance2
-
Story2
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. Using her experience at this branch allows Oliver to highlight the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded: racism, segregation, and class inequalities.
Preview -
Overdue
- Reckoning with the Public Library
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.21 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Walkley Book Award 2025
- By: Rick Morton
- Narrated by: Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens. Winner of the 2025 Walkley Book Award Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary...
Preview -
Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Walkley Book Award 2025
- Narrated by: Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-10-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.36 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
After the Gig
- How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
- By: Juliet B. Schor
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make it equitable for the users and workers most exploited.
Preview -
After the Gig
- How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.62 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Poison Ivy
- How Elite Colleges Divide Us
- By: Evan Mandery
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive "Ivy-plus" schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere.
Preview -
Poison Ivy
- How Elite Colleges Divide Us
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-01-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.28 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Getting to Reparations
- How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past
- By: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrated by: Dorothy A. Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal—from the acclaimed author of The Whiteness of Wealth. The idea of reparations is not a new or original one...
Preview -
Getting to Reparations
- How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past
- Narrated by: Dorothy A. Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.05 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Get on the Job and Organize
- Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World
- By: Jaz Brisack, Jaz Brisack - introduction
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and “better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it” (Senator Bernie...
Preview -
Get on the Job and Organize
- Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.37 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- By: Nelson D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side. In...
Preview -
The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£18.79 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Uplift and Empower
- A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
- By: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
- Narrated by: Julia Loveless
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3
-
Performance3
-
Story3
Did you know that over 600 million people live on less than $2 a day? Nearly 10 percent of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time. Eradicating extreme poverty may seem simple, but it's very complex.
-
-
informative book, recording could be better
- By Carrie C on 30-04-23
Preview -
Uplift and Empower
- A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
- Narrated by: Julia Loveless
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.70 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Upside of Inequality
- How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
- By: Edward Conard
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4
-
Performance3
-
Story3
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement. Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly everyone...
-
-
Extremely detailed and an excellent read.
- By Ed Challinor on 06-11-19
Preview -
The Upside of Inequality
- How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.78 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
To My Black Friend
- A Plea for Responsibility, Repair, and the Work Before Us
- By: Solomon Locke
- Narrated by: Paul Tshihamba
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
To My Black Friend is a heartfelt plea for responsibility, repair, and the work before us. This book speaks directly to the challenges facing the Black community—not from a place of condemnation, but from a place of urgency, love, and truth. It acknowledges the reality of systemic injustice, generational trauma, and historical burden, while also calling for disciplined homes, stronger internal standards, accountable leadership, and intentional rebuilding. This is not a political argument. It is a moral and cultural call to action.
Preview -
To My Black Friend
- A Plea for Responsibility, Repair, and the Work Before Us
- Narrated by: Paul Tshihamba
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-05-26
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.79 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Need Blind
- A Memoir of Class in America
- By: Xochitl Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Xochitl Gonzalez
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America today Xochitl Gonzalez has changed...
-
Need Blind
- A Memoir of Class in America
- Narrated by: Xochitl Gonzalez
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-03-27
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.69 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Burdened
- Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
- By: Ryann Liebenthal
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
*ONE OF THE NEW YORKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2024* “A powerful argument for reforming this system.”—The New York Times An urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis. College costs more...
Preview -
Burdened
- Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
- By: Jon Shelton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the 18th and 19th centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy.
Preview -
The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.51 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Breakthrough Community Change
- A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
- By: Paul Born
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intractable community problems.
Preview -
Breakthrough Community Change
- A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-02-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.83 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
México, manual de usuario [Mexico, User Manual]
- By: Jose Manuel Torres Morales
- Narrated by: Jose Manuel Torres Morales
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
El libro es una burla y una serie de sarcasmos bien documentados, pero también es una reflexión profunda del México violento, trágico y delirante donde reina la impunidad, la trampa, el desfalco, a pesar de tener seres humanos grandiosos en las ciencias y en las artes.
-
-
Me hizo sonreír y reír, pase un gran momento
- By Amazon Customer on 20-02-23
Preview -
México, manual de usuario [Mexico, User Manual]
- Narrated by: Jose Manuel Torres Morales
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: Spanish
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.05 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
What We Build with Power
- The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
- By: David Delmar Sentíes
- Narrated by: Alex Mitts
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
A historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to disrupt the tech industry and move toward a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce...
Preview -
What We Build with Power
- The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
- Narrated by: Alex Mitts
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-03-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.04 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-