Labour Relations History

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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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • By: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • 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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    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
    • By: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
    • Narrated by: Penny McDonald
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
    • By: James Neff
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis, Jimmy Hoffa....

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    • The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
    • By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is the thrilling story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Hopper Stone
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 25-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946....

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    • A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
    • By: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek present a vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics....

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    • Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
    • By: Catherine Higgs
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt....

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    • Breve historia de cómo el trabajo nos arruinó la vida [A Brief History of How Work Ruined Our Lives]
    • By: Andrés Hatum
    • Narrated by: Leto Dugatkin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-22
    • Language: Spanish
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    • En Fragmentados Andrés Hatum describe, analiza y ejemplifica las distintas formas en que el trabajo nos arruinó y fragmentó la vida. Arruinar, por lo inhumano de ciertos trabajos, en particular en momentos como la Revolución Industrial; fragmentar porque, en vez de estar integrados en nuestra vida, los trabajos se metieron como una cuña para complicárnosla.

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

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