Labor Relations History

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    • 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 372 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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    • 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 1,575 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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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • By: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....

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    • 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 352 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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    • 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 5,562 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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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • By: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • 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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    • By: E.P. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....

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    • By: Philip Nicholson
    • Narrated by: Brian E. Smith
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in 20 years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America....

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    • West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....

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    • 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 102 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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    • 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 466 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • 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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    • Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Hopper Stone
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946....

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    • The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
    • By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • This is the thrilling story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States....

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