Economic Sociology

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    • 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

    • Living in Bootstrap America
    • Auteur(s): Linda Tirado
    • Narrateur(s): Linda Tirado
    • Durée: 4 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives
    • Auteur(s): Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
    • Narrateur(s): Melissa Edris
    • Durée: 16 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why Our Families Can't Afford America
    • Auteur(s): Alissa Quart
    • Narrateur(s): Carly Robins
    • Durée: 8 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Families today are squeezed on every side - from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
    • Auteur(s): Ben Sasse
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Sasse
    • Durée: 9 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
    • Auteur(s): Kimberly Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Kimberly Jones
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Henry George
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Smith
    • Durée: 15 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land...

    Prix courant: 14,78$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,78$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Status Divides Us
    • Auteur(s): Susan T Fiske
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Miller
    • Durée: 7 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An insightful examination of why we compare ourselves to those above and below us....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
    • Auteur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Narrateur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Big Business Targets Children
    • Auteur(s): Joel Bakan
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Jenkins
    • Durée: 7 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In Childhood Under Siege, Joel Bakan reveals the callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations and society's failure to protect them....

    Prix courant: 30,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,18$ ou 1 crédit