Labour America History

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
    • By: Willie Drye
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy....

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    • Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Hopper Stone
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 25-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946....

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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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    • 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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    • The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
    • By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2005
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the thrilling story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of the United States of America (U.S. Military History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Saffir
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century? The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed....

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    • The History of America’s Largest Labor Uprising
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2021
    • Language: English
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    • As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tensions between workers and companies led to demonstrations, encounters, and even conflicts that descended into violence. Among those, none were larger than the colloquially known Battle of Blair Mountain....

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    • A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
    • By: Nell Irvin Painter
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • First but Forgotten
    • By: Cristina Oxtra
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • You may have learned about Cesar Chavez’s leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike and Boycott of the 1960s. But did you know it began as a strike led by Larry Itliong?

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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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    • On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath....

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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 History and Legacy of the Protests Across America over Wages and Labor Conditions
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2022
    • Language: English
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    • When trains were introduced as a popular means of transportation, some of the first tracks laid terminated in New York, and the expansion of railroads led to the birth of train stations across the country. In general, these were small buildings where passengers could buy tickets....

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    • America’s Deadliest Labor War
    • By: Thomas G. Andrews
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead....

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