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    • 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
    • Release date: 18-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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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: 25-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 31-05-2017
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • An American Story
    • By: Amy Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....

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    • College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
    • By: Ofer Sharone
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment.

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    • Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
    • By: Julius G. Getman
    • Narrated by: Kyle A Northcott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines....

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    • One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
    • By: Gillian Thomas
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever....

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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2022
    • Language: English
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    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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    • All Parties Must Negotiate in Good Faith
    • By: Mark Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Mark Ferguson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • There is an old world fading out with a new world coming in. This story represents where the two worlds meet.

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    • Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
    • By: Randy M. Browne
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Randy M. Browne illuminates the predicament and harrowing struggles of enslavers and enslaved laborer at the heart of the plantation world.

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    • How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
    • By: Linda Chavez, Daniel Gray
    • Narrated by: Theresa Long
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2004
    • Language: English
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    • Linda Chavez, who was denied a plum job in President George W. Bush's Cabinet because she employed an illegal alien, here has her chance to get back at the unions and like-minded organizations....

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    • The Birth of American Anticommunism
    • By: Nick Fischer
    • Narrated by: William Dupuy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2017
    • Language: English
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    • The McCarthy-era witch hunts marked the culmination of an anticommunist crusade launched after the First World War. With Bolshevism triumphant in Russia and public discontent shaking the US....

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    • Slave Labor and the Making of America
    • By: Renee K. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Renee K. Harrison
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade....

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • By: Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

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    • The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
    • By: John Barnard
    • Narrated by: Jeff D Konrad
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2017
    • Language: English
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    • The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important chapter in the story of American democracy....

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    • Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s
    • By: Michael Goldfield
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s....

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