Bestsellers
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Mutiny
- The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
- By: Noam Scheiber
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployment, and jobs below their...
By: Noam Scheiber
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,891
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Performance5,321
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Story5,312
The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to...
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Escape from Capitalism
- An Intervention
- By: Clara E. Mattei
- Narrated by: Deborah McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models serve the extremely wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary people—and how we can reclaim our power to make choices about our economic lives. Capitalism isn’t...
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Should be required reading
- By Keith Sparkjoy on 03-05-26
By: Clara E. Mattei
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Nickel and Dimed
- On (Not) Getting By in America
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,649
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Performance1,074
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Story1,073
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. A successful author, Barbara...
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Good concept, but poor execution.
- By Marco Forcone on 08-24-04
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall446
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Performance365
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Story358
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that...
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
By: Daniel Markovits
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women
- By: Kate Northrup
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall624
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Performance536
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Story534
A practical and spiritual guide for working moms to learn how to have more by doing less. This is an audiobook for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional...
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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
By: Kate Northrup
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Mutiny
- The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
- By: Noam Scheiber
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployment, and jobs below their...
By: Noam Scheiber
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,891
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Performance5,321
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Story5,312
The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to...
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Escape from Capitalism
- An Intervention
- By: Clara E. Mattei
- Narrated by: Deborah McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models serve the extremely wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary people—and how we can reclaim our power to make choices about our economic lives. Capitalism isn’t...
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Should be required reading
- By Keith Sparkjoy on 03-05-26
By: Clara E. Mattei
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Nickel and Dimed
- On (Not) Getting By in America
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,649
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Performance1,074
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Story1,073
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. A successful author, Barbara...
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Good concept, but poor execution.
- By Marco Forcone on 08-24-04
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall446
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Performance365
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Story358
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that...
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
By: Daniel Markovits
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women
- By: Kate Northrup
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall624
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Performance536
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Story534
A practical and spiritual guide for working moms to learn how to have more by doing less. This is an audiobook for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional...
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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
By: Kate Northrup
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance208
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Story202
"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." (AudioFile Magazine) This program is read by the author. From an Oxford economist, a visionary...
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Technology deflation through the econ lens
- By Pimpernel Sandybanks on 04-15-20
By: Daniel Susskind
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- By: Peter Robison
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall537
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Performance468
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Story466
NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BEST SELLER A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. An "authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of...
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(Revised). Missing some, but informative.
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
By: Peter Robison
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
- Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
- By: Seth Holmes
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall187
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Performance158
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Story159
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...
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Pronunciation is poor
- By Zachary McGuire on 04-15-18
By: Seth Holmes
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The Utopia of Rules
- On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall385
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Performance321
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Story324
From the author of the international best-seller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives. From where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
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Not his most serious book, but still really great
- By David Pereplyotchik on 11-19-19
By: David Graeber
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,065
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Performance950
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Story948
An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New 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...
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Disgusting
- By Frank on 09-23-18
By: Shane Bauer
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No Shortcuts
- Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
- By: Jane F. McAlevey
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance98
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Story96
The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington, DC (and capitols throughout the West)...
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great
- By Anonymous on 11-29-20
By: Jane F. McAlevey
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Machiavelli For Women
- Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
- By: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Narrated by: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall360
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Performance324
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Story322
2022 BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AUDIE AWARD WINNER! From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an “accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical” (Sarah Knight,New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century...
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Hard lessons served with wit, warmth and hope
- By Lyle Beefelt on 10-14-21
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall454
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Performance376
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Story378
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize? * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book * A Wall Street Journal Best Book * An Economist Best Book * A Business Insider Best Book * “A gripping...
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How did I miss this one in 2017?
- By NMwritergal on 11-25-18
By: Amy Goldstein
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills
- West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
- By: James Green
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall139
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Performance131
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Story131
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....
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Phenomenal labor history, riveting narrative
- By Chris Brooks on 03-11-18
By: James Green
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Holding the Line
- Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance53
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Story52
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....
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Didn’t finish - not interested
- By Amazon Friend on 07-23-24
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The Conscience of a Conservative
- By: Barry Goldwater
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall355
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Performance307
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Story307
When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States and helped to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980. Just as vital today...
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Great American - great ideology
- By Arizona Sportsman on 03-10-15
By: Barry Goldwater
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
- By: Erik Loomis
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall196
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Performance172
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Story171
A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....
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great read
- By Perscors on 03-17-19
By: Erik Loomis
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance265
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Story264
An 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. “An indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.” —Nation You’re told that if...
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Book is fully disinterested in male laborers
- By Jeremy Kean on 06-05-21
By: Sarah Jaffe
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- By: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.
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Too much repititive detail, to the point that I ended up disliking the book would not recommend to my friends.
- By Beth Ann on 11-13-24
By: Jacqueline Jones
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance88
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Story88
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...
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Disappointing
- By Ellen on 01-26-20
By: Jane McAlevey
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Capital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 104 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'....
By: Karl Marx
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How Migration Really Works
- The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
- By: Hein de Haas
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story12
An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap). As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering...
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Finally!
- By Allan J. Thomas on 03-14-24
By: Hein de Haas
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The Edge of Anarchy
- The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
- By: Jack Kelly
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance92
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Story92
The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....
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Wow! every workingman should read.
- By Calemos on 01-18-20
By: Jack Kelly
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Brotopia
- Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall800
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Performance701
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Story702
Instant National Bestseller A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick "Excellent." —San Francisco Chronicle Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. It's time to break up the boys' club. Incisive, powerful, and a fierce rallying cry, Emily...
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Insightful, Infuriating, and Important
- By Lavina K. on 02-11-18
By: Emily Chang
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- By: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance151
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Story152
Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- By Cynthia on 07-28-12
By: David K. Shipler
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Affirmative Action Around the World
- An Empirical Study
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story25
An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that stirred fresh debate about this vitally important issue when it was published in 2005.
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The global historical insight
- By Anonymous on 09-29-25
By: Thomas Sowell
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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
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,187
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Performance3,618
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Story3,600
***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...
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I Would Vote For Him
- By Tommie Sexton on 07-09-18
By: Andrew Yang
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How To Be a Democratic Socialist
- The Definitive Guide to Democratic Socialism
- By: Levi Kavan
- Narrated by: Joe Wosik
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
How to Be a Democratic Socialist is a clear, engaging guide to what democratic socialism actually is, where it came from, and how it works in practice.
By: Levi Kavan
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The Aristocracy of Talent
- How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
- By: Adrian Wooldridge
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance25
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Story25
The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why...
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Finally, an answer.
- By lll on 11-23-23
New releases
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Mutiny
- The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
- By: Noam Scheiber
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployment, and jobs below their...
By: Noam Scheiber
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After the Paycheck
- The AI Reckoning No One Is Prepared For
- By: Steven Imke
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Something is changing. You can feel it even if you can't name it yet. Jobs that seemed safe no longer feel safe. Business models that made sense for decades are under new pressure. The tools are getting smarter. The workforce is getting smaller. And the systems built to support working people, from Social Security to city budgets to small business credit, are quietly straining at the seams. Most books about AI focus on the technology. This one follows the money. After the Paycheck traces what actually breaks when intelligent systems begin absorbing the cognitive work once performed by ...
By: Steven Imke
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Why Is “Everything” Made in China?
- The Hidden Systems Behind the World’s Factory
- By: Elira Fontayne
- Narrated by: Eyvonne Kinsey
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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You can tell a great deal about the modern world by turning an everyday object over in your hands and reading the small print. A phone case, a kettle, a child’s toy, a set of headphones, a pack of socks, a kitchen timer, a car part, a rechargeable torch, a cable, a cheap drill, a Christmas decoration, a novelty mug, a watch strap, a hairdryer. The range is so ordinary that it becomes invisible. We barely register it anymore.
By: Elira Fontayne
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The New Science of Work
- Leading Human-AI Integration in Organizations
- By: Jonathan H Westover
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Organizations are rushing to adopt AI, but most are missing the fundamental point: artificial intelligence isn't just another tool to implement—it demands a complete redesign of how work gets done. In The New Science of Work, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover delivers an evidence-based framework for leaders navigating the most significant workplace transformation since the industrial revolution. Drawing on cutting-edge research and organizational practice, this book moves beyond the hype of AI adoption to address the critical challenge facing today's leaders: how to integrate human and artificial ...
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The Fire That Never Went Out
- The Disasters, Mine Fires, and Underground Infernos That Burned for Decades
- By: Jessica Jones
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Fire That Never Went Out It started once. It never stopped burning. A fire that burns for hours is a disaster. A fire that burns for decades becomes something else entirely. In 1962, workers in the coal town of Centralia, Pennsylvania attempted to clean up a landfill by setting the garbage on fire. The plan was simple: burn the trash and extinguish the flames once the job was done. But the fire slipped into an abandoned coal mine beneath the town. What began as a small controlled burn turned into one of the most famous underground fires in history. Today, most of Centralia is gone. ...
By: Jessica Jones
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Generation Ghost
- An Empirical Study of the Doomed Inheritors of the Scraps
- By: Bernd Riemann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Generation Ghost: An Empirical Study of the Doomed Inheritors of the Scraps In this 2026 empirical study, Bernd Riemann provides a diagnostic map of the structural collapse facing the youth. While prior cohorts continue to operate within the remnants of traditional economic and social safety nets, Riemann documents the rise of the ghost state among the young: a condition of maximum visibility within data networks combined with a total loss of individual agency, wealth-building potential, and cognitive autonomy. This is an autopsy of a generation entering a world where the primary assets of ...
By: Bernd Riemann
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Mutiny
- The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
- By: Noam Scheiber
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployment, and jobs below their...
By: Noam Scheiber
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After the Paycheck
- The AI Reckoning No One Is Prepared For
- By: Steven Imke
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Something is changing. You can feel it even if you can't name it yet. Jobs that seemed safe no longer feel safe. Business models that made sense for decades are under new pressure. The tools are getting smarter. The workforce is getting smaller. And the systems built to support working people, from Social Security to city budgets to small business credit, are quietly straining at the seams. Most books about AI focus on the technology. This one follows the money. After the Paycheck traces what actually breaks when intelligent systems begin absorbing the cognitive work once performed by ...
By: Steven Imke
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Why Is “Everything” Made in China?
- The Hidden Systems Behind the World’s Factory
- By: Elira Fontayne
- Narrated by: Eyvonne Kinsey
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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You can tell a great deal about the modern world by turning an everyday object over in your hands and reading the small print. A phone case, a kettle, a child’s toy, a set of headphones, a pack of socks, a kitchen timer, a car part, a rechargeable torch, a cable, a cheap drill, a Christmas decoration, a novelty mug, a watch strap, a hairdryer. The range is so ordinary that it becomes invisible. We barely register it anymore.
By: Elira Fontayne
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The New Science of Work
- Leading Human-AI Integration in Organizations
- By: Jonathan H Westover
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Organizations are rushing to adopt AI, but most are missing the fundamental point: artificial intelligence isn't just another tool to implement—it demands a complete redesign of how work gets done. In The New Science of Work, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover delivers an evidence-based framework for leaders navigating the most significant workplace transformation since the industrial revolution. Drawing on cutting-edge research and organizational practice, this book moves beyond the hype of AI adoption to address the critical challenge facing today's leaders: how to integrate human and artificial ...
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The Fire That Never Went Out
- The Disasters, Mine Fires, and Underground Infernos That Burned for Decades
- By: Jessica Jones
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Fire That Never Went Out It started once. It never stopped burning. A fire that burns for hours is a disaster. A fire that burns for decades becomes something else entirely. In 1962, workers in the coal town of Centralia, Pennsylvania attempted to clean up a landfill by setting the garbage on fire. The plan was simple: burn the trash and extinguish the flames once the job was done. But the fire slipped into an abandoned coal mine beneath the town. What began as a small controlled burn turned into one of the most famous underground fires in history. Today, most of Centralia is gone. ...
By: Jessica Jones
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Generation Ghost
- An Empirical Study of the Doomed Inheritors of the Scraps
- By: Bernd Riemann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Generation Ghost: An Empirical Study of the Doomed Inheritors of the Scraps In this 2026 empirical study, Bernd Riemann provides a diagnostic map of the structural collapse facing the youth. While prior cohorts continue to operate within the remnants of traditional economic and social safety nets, Riemann documents the rise of the ghost state among the young: a condition of maximum visibility within data networks combined with a total loss of individual agency, wealth-building potential, and cognitive autonomy. This is an autopsy of a generation entering a world where the primary assets of ...
By: Bernd Riemann