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Labour & Industrial Relations Audiobooks

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    Can't Even

    How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

    by Anne Helen Petersen ...
    Narrated by Anne Helen Petersen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An incendiary personal and cultural investigation of burnoutAre you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow still not doing enough? Has the bottom half of your To Do list been locked in place for months? Is everything becoming work as your job seeps into your evenings, you monetise your hobbies and perform your leisure time on social media?This is burnout - what ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bullshit Jobs

    A Theory

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland.Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.In the early twentieth century, people ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I, Millennial

    One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

    by Tom Ballard ...
    Narrated by Tom Ballard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    ‘A damn hilarious read.’ Nazeem Hussain‘A true barbarian.’ **Andrew BoltOur world is in chaos lol. And no, Australian Millennials, it’s not your imagination: things are especially f**ked for us.**Millions of Baby Boomers got beach houses, free education, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement. But Millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Code White

    Sounding the Alarm on Violence against Health Care Workers

    by Margaret M. Keith, James T. Brophy ...
    Narrated by Fiona Highet ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White exposes a shocking epidemic of violence that’s hidden in plain sight, one in which workers are bruised, battered, assaulted, and demeaned, but carry on in silence, with little ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The War on Normal People

    The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

    by Andrew Yang ...
    Narrated by Andrew Yang ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    ***New York Times Bestseller***From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation.The shift toward ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Red State Revolt

    The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

    by Eric Blanc ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class," a strike wave-the first in over four decades-rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over "the Chinese Question": would the United States and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Worked Over

    How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream

    by Jamie K McCallum ...
    Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality.Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives became tethered to ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Maternal Optimism

    Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood

    by Jamie Ladge, Danna Greenberg ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    Every working mother's path is unique and should be celebrated, not lamented. Yet all too frequently, working mothers are presented with advice, rules to follow or guidelines as if all women's experiences are the same and a one-size-fits-all solution is appropriate. Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood aims to provide listeners with stories and research that ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Struggle and Mutual Aid

    The Age of Worker Solidarity

    by Nicolas Delalande ...
    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the 1970s—worker movements were at the cutting edge of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hire Purpose

    How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap

    by Deanna Mulligan ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    The future of work is already here, and what this future looks like must be a pressing concern for the current generation of leaders in both the private and public sectors. In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine. How can we survive ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blood Runs Coal

    The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America

    by Mark A. Bradley ...
    Narrated by Perry Daniels ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle. Yablonski ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    We're Still Here

    Pain and Politics in the Heart of America

    by Jennifer M. Silva ...
    Narrated by Teri Barrington ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt. The routines and rhythms of traditional ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Love the Work, Hate the Job

    Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy than Ever

    by David Kusnet ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    Over the years, American jobs have become more intellectually challenging and less physically exhausting. Yet more and more American workers—blue collar, white collar, and pink collar—are expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs. They love their careers, but not their working conditions. What turns a model employee into a malcontent?David Kusnet followed the workers at four companies in the ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Brilliant Boy

    Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Narrated by Gideon Haigh ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards.Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award.Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On the Job

    The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health

    by Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    For over 60 million people, work in America has been a story of declining wages, insecurity, and unsafe conditions, especially amid the coronavirus epidemic. This new and troubling reality has galvanized media and policymakers, but all the while a different and little-known story of rebirth and struggle has percolated just below the surface. On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Live Work Work Work Die

    A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

    by Corey Pein ...
    Narrated by Corey Pein ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit. This enlightening audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in the tech industry.At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Power Brokers

    The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry

    by Jeremiah D. Lambert ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Standing at Armageddon

    A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

    by Nell Irvin Painter ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 9 min

    Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Collective Bargain

    Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

    by Jane McAlevey ...
    Narrated by Jane McAlevey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours

    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London). This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

    Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

    by Seth Holmes ...
    Narrated by Paul Costanzo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes's material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power

    by Tom Bower ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    ‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devastating’ Daily Telegraph‘The most compelling in-depth study so far’ GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing Street could mean for BritainAfter four unremarkable decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn stands on the brink of power. Until hi... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

    by Tom Burgis ...
    Narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Machine’ explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.Africa: the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planet’s crude oil, 40 per cent of its gold and 80 ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial