Labour History

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    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
    • By: Jean Helion
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps....

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    • The Age of Worker Solidarity
    • By: Nicolas Delalande
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government
    • By: David Torrance
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Wild Men tells the story of the first Labour administration and the 'wild men' who shook up the British establishment....

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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 54 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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    • The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
    • By: David Goodhart
    • Narrated by: David Goodhart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to head (cognitive), hand (manual/craft) and heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies, they have got out of kilter....

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    • The El Bordo Mine Fire
    • By: Yuri Herrera
    • Narrated by: Armando Durán
    • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
    • By: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions.

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    • The History and Legacy of the Use of Indentured Workers in the Modern Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It has often been said that the greatest invention of all time was the sail, which facilitated the internationalization of the globe and thus ushered in the modern era....

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    • True Stories from Quarry Bank
    • By: David Hanson
    • Narrated by: John Lightbody
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Mill - set in early 19th-century Cheshire - was Channel 4's biggest drama launch of 2013....

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    • Life at the Heart of New Labour
    • By: Peter Mandelson
    • Narrated by: Peter Mandelson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party....

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    • With an Introduction by Yanis Varoufakis
    • By: Karl Marx, Yanis Varoufakis - introduction
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. This edition includes a new introduction by the economist and best-selling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis....

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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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    • 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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    • The Road to the Final Solution
    • By: Peter Longerich
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials....

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    • An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
    • By: Stefan Waydenfeld
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north....

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