Deconstructed
An Insider's View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades
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Loren C. Steffy
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Illegal immigration is among the most challenging and divisive issues facing America. With few changes in immigration laws since 1986, the undocumented population has swelled to an estimated 11 million.
Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and their human toll through the eyes of Houston businessman Stan Marek, who’s watched the immigration crisis unfold over 40 years. A descendant of Czech immigrants himself, Marek runs one of the largest specialty subcontracting firms in the US. He has seen construction work devolve from offering middle-class careers to trapping illegal immigrants in the shadows of the economy - paid in cash, without overtime or access to health care. Marek sees a burgeoning crisis for his industry, the national economy, and the undocumented immigrants themselves - a crisis he has vowed to prevent.
In Deconstructed, award-winning business journalist Loren Steffy traces Marek’s own family history, intertwined with changes in immigration law for more than a century. Steffy examines the economic forces driving illegal immigration and outlines solutions that could enhance our economy, the construction business, and the lives of immigrants.
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- Narrado por: Jane McAlevey
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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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. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Ellen en 01-26-20
De: Jane McAlevey
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Race for Profit
- De Hewti en 12-03-20
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American Dreams
- Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
- De: Marco Rubio
- Narrado por: Ricardo Suri
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a US senator. That was the American Dream - our country's central promise to its people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive and compelling path for renewal.
- De gary en 06-03-15
De: Marco Rubio
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- De: Andre M. Perry
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More about Black lives than property
- De J. Craig en 04-13-22
De: Andre M. Perry
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This Brave New World
- India, China and the United States
- De: Anja Manuel
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending. Both India and China will have vetoes over many international decisions, from climate change to global trade, human rights, and business standards.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, could be better
- De General en 09-23-16
De: Anja Manuel
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
- The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
- De: Thom Hartmann
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 136
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Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks: What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read to understand why voting is essential.
- De Brandon WIlliams en 10-05-19
De: Thom Hartmann
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have met the enemy and it is us.... Pogo
- De Soudant en 09-16-11
De: Thomas L. Friedman, y otros
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Golden Gulag
- Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- De: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started off great but devolved into case study
- De normal person en 10-16-21
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The Fourth Revolution
- The Global Race to Reinvent the State
- De: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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From the best-selling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It' s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for everyone wondering whats going?
- De Truth-be-told en 03-30-15
De: John Micklethwait, y otros
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?
- Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
- De: Ryan Cooper
- Narrado por: Ryan Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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How Are You Going to Pay for That? is filled with engaging discussions and detailed strategies that policymakers and citizens alike can use to assail even the most entrenched lines of neoliberal logic and start to undo these long-held misconceptions. Equal parts economic theory, history, and political polemic, this is an essential roadmap for winning the key battles to come.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not horrible but not correct either
- De David en 03-20-23
De: Ryan Cooper
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by "the Best and the Brightest" made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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Beyond Outrage
- What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix Them
- De: Robert B. Reich
- Narrado por: Robert B. Reich
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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Robert B. Reich urges Americans to get beyond mere outrage about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilize and to take back our economy and democracy. Americans can’t rely only on getting good people elected, Reich argues, because nothing positive happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington are organized to help make those things happen after the election. But in order to be effectively mobilized, we need to see the big picture.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Falls short
- De J. Klinghoffer en 11-04-13
De: Robert B. Reich
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Hostile Takeover
- Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America
- De: Matt Kibbe
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Hostile Takeover is a rebellious challenge to the "upper management" of government, who are choking American prosperity and liberty. Matt Kibbe exposes the privileged collusion of Washington insiders - and maps out a proven plan for how to return power from the self-appointed "experts" back to the people. Dubbed "one of the Tea Party's masterminds" by Newsweek, Kibbe reveals how grassroots citizens can and will check the federal behemoth and restore the American enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book from an interesting perspective
- De Aaron en 12-28-12
De: Matt Kibbe
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On Corruption in America
- And What Is at Stake
- De: Sarah Chayes
- Narrado por: Sarah Chayes
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders - from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution - undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Profoundly ambitious and genuine yet...
- De Jerry A. Boriskin en 08-16-20
De: Sarah Chayes
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Supercapitalism
- The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
- De: Robert B. Reich
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world. At the same time, argues the former U.S. secretary of labor, Robert B. Reich, the effectiveness of democracy in America has declined. It has grown less responsive to the citizenry, and people are feeling more and more helpless as a result.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robert Reich for V.P. (of the U.S.)
- De Horace en 11-07-07
De: Robert B. Reich
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Deconstructed
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- Chad
- 02-03-25
Essential reading for construction pros
The message is clear. We need our immigrant population and must find a way to make them a legal part of our workforce. This book outlines is perfectly.
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- Sharon
- 11-26-24
Excellent book -should be required reading!
This book is a great overview of what many businesses have been facing and unfortunately will continue to face over the next four years. It’s very sad to me that people have lost their empathy and for that matter, critical thinking skills to clearly look at an issue that is resolvable without harming businesses, families, and our great country. I commend Stan Marek for working so hard on this issue and caring about his employees -understanding what makes business great.
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