Economic Sociology

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    • The Black Girl Bible
    • Auteur(s): Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené
    • Narrateur(s): Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené, Karen Blackett
    • Durée: 12 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From education to work to dating, this inspirational, honest and provocative book recognises and celebrates the strides black women have already made, while providing practical advice for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • Auteur(s): Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrateur(s): Christine Lakin
    • Durée: 12 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Marosz
    • Durée: 11 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gregg Easterbrook makes the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century; and yet today, most men and women feel less happy...

    Prix courant: 23,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): P. E. Moskowitz
    • Durée: 9 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-08-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Taking listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities and how we can get it back.

    Prix courant: 27,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,01$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Histories of American Education)
    • Auteur(s): Jon Shelton
    • Narrateur(s): Keith McCarthy
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Rory Hearne
    • Narrateur(s): Rory Hearne
    • Durée: 13 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
    • Auteur(s): Emily Flitter
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Flitter
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A deeply reported, “important, and infuriating” (The Guardian) look at the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry, from acclaimed New York Times finance reporter Emily Flitter....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
    • Auteur(s): Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
    • Narrateur(s): Shawn Compton
    • Durée: 6 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Lindsey and Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Alissa Quart
    • Narrateur(s): Beth Hicks
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
    • Auteur(s): Alex Rosenblat
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Beresford
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland reveals the complicated politics of popular technologies and paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Trading Sex as a Side Hustle
    • Auteur(s): Raven Bowen
    • Narrateur(s): Alexa MacDermot
    • Durée: 6 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • As the labor market continues to exploit workers, for some, duality offers much-needed flexibility and staves off poverty. This book illustrates contemporary accounts of individuals taking extraordinary risks to hold jobs in both sex industries and non-sex work employment....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Reckoning with the Public Library
    • Auteur(s): Amanda Oliver
    • Narrateur(s): Eva Wilhelm
    • Durée: 7 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
    • Auteur(s): James Livingston
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 3 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem....

    Prix courant: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Upton Sinclair
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 3 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 1925, the greatest muckraking journalist and advocate for the working man, Upton Sinclair, believed that the cause in which he believed needed to be clearly and concisely explained - in plain English - for the benefit of the American worker....

    Prix courant: 14,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
    • Auteur(s): Robert Frank
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
    • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through Richistan entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 21,32$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,32$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
    • Auteur(s): Dawn Turner
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 11 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded, fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls....

    Prix courant: 23,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • Democratic Socialism-American Style
    • Auteur(s): Kate Aronoff - editor, Peter Dreier - editor, Michael Kazin - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter, Kyle Tait
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism-American Style offers a road map to making this alternative a reality....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality
    • Auteur(s): Celeste Watkins-Hayes
    • Narrateur(s): Cherise Boothe
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit