Labour Relations

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
    • By: James Bloodworth
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • 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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    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • By: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

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    • A Theory
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 817 ratings
    • Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working 15-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened....

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    • Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
    • By: Seth Holmes
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care....

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    • How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations....

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    • How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
    • By: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Narrated by: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
    • By: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 02-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • 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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    • Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism
    • By: Phil Jones
    • Narrated by: David Vickery
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South....

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    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • Shattering the Barriers that Still Hold Women Back at Work
    • By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Women have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The gender pay gap, for example, shows little movement, largely because high-paying jobs are the most gender-imbalanced....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • By: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States.... 

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    • Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s
    • By: Michael Goldfield
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s....

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    • Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement
    • By: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
    • Narrated by: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Rebecca Loman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 614 ratings
    • On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months, they had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing allegations....

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    • Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power
    • By: Tom Bower
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • After four unremarkable decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn stands on the brink of power. Until his surprise election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, this seemingly unelectable oddball had not been a major political player....

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • By: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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