Social Labor

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • Written by: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-27
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake....

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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 213 ratings
    • From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

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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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    • How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
    • Written by: Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations....

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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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    • 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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    • Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
    • Written by: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-13
    • Language: English
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    • Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking....

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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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    • The El Bordo Mine Fire
    • Written by: Yuri Herrera
    • Narrated by: Armando Durán
    • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2020-11-10
    • Language: English
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    • On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have committed murder....

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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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    • Idleness and Workplace Resistance
    • Written by: Roland Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-10
    • Language: English
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    • While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? Find out more....

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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 Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
    • Written by: Molly Smith, Juno Mac
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?

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    • Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
    • Written by: Gemma Hartley
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women’s lives and feeding gender inequality....

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