Labour Economics

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    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • By: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

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    • Therapy for a Traumatised Nation
    • By: Robert Peston, Kishan Koria
    • Narrated by: Nick Biadon, Robert Peston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • We in the West appear to be at a year zero, with the seeming end of the relative peace and prosperity we took for granted....

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    • The Truth About Britain's White Working Class
    • By: Joel Budd
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 17-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • No large group of people in Britain is as misunderstood as the white working class. Its members have been caricatured as grumpy and backward-looking, as incorrigibly xenophobic, even racist – a tired and simplistic narrative perpetuated by commentators and the media. The truth is entirely different.

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • By: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 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 to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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    • A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown
    • By: Michael Patrick Smith
    • Narrated by: Michael Patrick Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Michael Patrick Smith grew up in a ramshackle farmhouse where his father beat the walls and threw dinner plates. As a restless young man left unmoored by the crashing economy, Smith cut a path to North Dakota to rent a mattress on a flophouse floor....

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    • A History of How We Spend Our Time
    • By: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Matt Jamie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • An American Story
    • By: Amy Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....

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    • Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    • By: Carl Benedikt Frey
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....

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    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 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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    • The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
    • By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....

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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 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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    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised....

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • By: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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 Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
    • By: Rick Wartzman
    • Narrated by: Rick Wartzman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-17
    • Language: English
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    • Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening audiobook, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
    • By: Sebastian Payne
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Payne
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road trip through 10 constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall from Sebastian Payne—an award-winning journalist and Whitehall editor for the Financial Times....

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    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • By: Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

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