Labor & Industrial Relations

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

* 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...

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....

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....

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...

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...

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.

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...

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'....

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...

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...

Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....

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.

***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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...