Social Labor

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    • Mothering as Social Change
    • Written by: Angela Garbes
    • Narrated by: Angela Garbes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work....

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    • The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
    • Written by: Rose Hackman
    • Narrated by: Rose Hackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For fans of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • Written by: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • Written by: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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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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    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • Written by: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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    • A Theory
    • Written by: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • Written by: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-07
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • Written by: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2023-01-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • Written by: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 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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    • Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    • Written by: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • Written by: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2011-02-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

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    • Power and Participation in Union Negotiations
    • Written by: Jane F. McAlevey, Abby Lawlor
    • Narrated by: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-09
    • Language: English
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    • Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy.

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • Written by: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-31
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • Written by: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
    • Written by: Kate Northrup
    • Narrated by: Kate Northrup
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....

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    • The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
    • Written by: Peter Robison
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....

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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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    • 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 29 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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