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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
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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
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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
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On the Clock

What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

by Emily Guendelsberger

Narrated by Christine Lakin

Unabridged

12 hours 6 min
"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage laborAfter the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and ... Read more
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain

The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

by Gordon H. Chang

Narrated by David Shih

Unabridged

9 hours 51 min
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. From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the ... Read more
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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
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American Prison

A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

by Shane Bauer

Narrated by James Fouhey and 1 more

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min
**An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.orgNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A ... Read more
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Oltre i Cancelli

by Delio Fantasia

Narrated by Gabriele Sorrentino

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min
Gli ultimi trent’anni della fabbrica più grande del centro Italia raccontati da un operaio metalmeccanico di produzione. Aneddoti e situazioni vissute all’interno della Fiat (ora FCA) di Cassino, raccontate con ironica serietà da un interprete dell’ultima generazione di operai che ha attraversato le epocali trasformazioni del mercato e dell’organizzazione del lavoro, delle controriforme del ... Read more
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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
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Overload

How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It

by Erin L. Kelly and 1 more

Narrated by Janet Metzger

Unabridged

10 hours 42 min
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. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition ... Read more
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The Immigrant Exodus

Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

by Vivek Wadhwa

Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon

Unabridged

2 hours 29 min
A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Many of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more
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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
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In A Day's Work

The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

by Bernice Yeung

Narrated by Jean Ann Douglass

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist ... Read more
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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
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Politics at Work

How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists

by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Narrated by Chris Sorensen

Unabridged

10 hours 32 min
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate ... Read more
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

by Annelise Orleck

Narrated by Erin Bennett

Unabridged

11 hours 23 min
The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home ... Read more
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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
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Betrayal

How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics

by Linda Chavez and 1 more

Narrated by Linda Chavez

Abridged

6 hours 14 min
“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the ... Read more
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Betrayal

How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics

by Linda Chavez and 1 more

Narrated by Theresa Long

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min
“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the ... Read more
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

by Michael Punke

Narrated by William Roberts

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a ... Read more
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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
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Soul Full of Coal Dust

A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia

by Chris Hamby

Narrated by Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged

14 hours 1 min
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down.Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to virtually eradicate black lung disease and provide fair ... Read more
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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
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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
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