Labor Economics

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Written by: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • Written by: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • Written by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • Written by: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • Written by: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • Written by: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • Written by: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
    • Written by: Arun Sundararajan
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" - a new way of organizing economic activity....

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    • Written by: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....

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    • Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
    • Written by: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Written by: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-08
    • Language: English
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    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
    • Written by: Andrew J. Cherlin
    • Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2017-03-15
    • Language: English
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    • In Labor's Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America....

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    • Winning and Losing in One-Click America
    • Written by: Alec MacGillis
    • Narrated by: Danny Gavigan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • Written by: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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    • The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
    • Written by: Alexandra Harney
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-08
    • Language: English
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    • To write The China Price, Alexandra Harney has penetrated further and deeper into China's enormous ecosystem of export-oriented industry than any outsider before her....

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    • Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
    • Written by: Jim Morris
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers....

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    • The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
    • Written by: Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable - but essential - workers....

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