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  • The Radium Girls Audiobook By Kate Moore cover art

    • The Radium Girls

    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,498 ratings
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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  • Bullshit Jobs Audiobook By David Graeber cover art

    • Bullshit Jobs

    • A Theory
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,419 ratings

    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

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  • Nickel and Dimed Audiobook By Barbara Ehrenreich cover art

    • Nickel and Dimed

    • 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 1,567 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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  • Flying Blind Audiobook By Peter Robison cover art

    • Flying Blind

    • The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
    • By: Peter Robison
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 493 ratings

    • Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....

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  • Do Less Audiobook By Kate Northrup cover art

    • Do Less

    • A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
    • By: Kate Northrup
    • Narrated by: Kate Northrup
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 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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  • No Shortcuts Audiobook By Jane F. McAlevey cover art

    • No Shortcuts

    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 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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  • A History of America in Ten Strikes Audiobook By Erik Loomis cover art

    • A History of America in Ten Strikes

    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings

    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

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  • Holding the Line Audiobook By Barbara Kingsolver cover art

    • Holding the Line

    • Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
    • By: Barbara Kingsolver
    • Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Jennifer Jill Araya
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....

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  • The Utopia of Rules Audiobook By David Graeber cover art

    • The Utopia of Rules

    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings

    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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  • Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Audiobook By Seth Holmes cover art

    • Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

    • 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 180 ratings
    • Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care....

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  • Work Won't Love You Back Audiobook By Sarah Jaffe cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 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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  • American Prison Audiobook By Shane Bauer cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,039 ratings

    • 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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  • The Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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  • Feeding the Machine Audiobook By Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon cover art

    • Feeding the Machine

    • The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
    • By: Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • A.I. is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity’s collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book is a call to arms that details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.

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  • A Trucker's Tale Audiobook By Ed Miller cover art

    • A Trucker's Tale

    • 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: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 328 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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  • Only Yesterday Audiobook By Frederick Lewis Allen cover art

    • Only Yesterday

    • An Informal History of the 1920s
    • By: Frederick Lewis Allen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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  • The Conscience of a Conservative Audiobook By Barry Goldwater cover art

    • The Conscience of a Conservative

    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 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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  • Human + Machine Audiobook By Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • 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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  • Dirty Work Audiobook By Eyal Press cover art

    • Dirty Work

    • Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings

    • In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs....

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  • The Socialist Manifesto Audiobook By Bhaskar Sunkara cover art

    • The Socialist Manifesto

    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings

    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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