Industrial Economics

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • By: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • A deeply-reported 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....

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    • A History of How We Spend Our Time
    • By: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Matt Jamie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present....

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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time....

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    • Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    • By: Carl Benedikt Frey
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....

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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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    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • By: Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

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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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    • How to Save the World from Financialisation
    • By: Grace Blakeley
    • Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....

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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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    • Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex
    • By: Mike Magee MD
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 04-06-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars....

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    • The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
    • By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....

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    • Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
    • By: Tom Wetzel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The United States has a dramatic history of workers organizing on the job. In the last seventy odd years, labor organizations have made peace with owners, and wages, various protections, and safety has diminished....

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    • How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live
    • By: Daniel H. Pink
    • Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2001
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Organization Man is history. Taking his place is America's new economic icon: the "free agent" - the job-hopping, tech-savvy, fulfillment-seeking, self-reliant, independent worker...

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    • The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
    • By: Annelise Orleck
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised....

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    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....

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    • Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
    • By: James Bloodworth
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the time trials of a council care worker and the grim reality behind the glossy Uber app, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very front line of low-wage Britain....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • By: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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