Political Social Work

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    • Written by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • Written by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • Written by: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past....

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    • A Cure for Capitalism
    • Written by: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....

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    • How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
    • Written by: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 2019-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world....

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    • The Politics of Us and Them
    • Written by: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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    • Why Markets Work so Well, and Why They Can Fail so Badly
    • Written by: John Quiggin
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes - and failures - of free-market economics....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • Written by: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 2019-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
    • Written by: Byung-Chul Han
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Series: Byung-Chul Han: The Collected Audio Works
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.

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    • Written by: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • Written by: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • Written by: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Brief Guide to the US Political System
    • Written by: William Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s historic success.

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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • Written by: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • How the Pardon System Works and Why
    • Written by: Kim Wehle
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-02
    • Language: English
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    • If you've ever wondered about the constitutional basis for presidential pardons, this book explains it, offering examples from the recent and distant past. Follow constitutional law professor and popular newsroom commentator Kim Wehle through a fascinating rundown.

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    • Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
    • Written by: Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed....

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    • Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
    • Written by: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist.....

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    • And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
    • Written by: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2017-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would sound something like this....

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