Labour Economics

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
    • By: Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Two bestselling authors deliver a bold new interpretation of why technology has all too often benefited elites - and how we must reshape the path of innovation to create true shared prosperity....

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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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    • The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
    • By: Jake S. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 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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    • The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
    • By: Arun Sundararajan
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" - a new way of organizing economic activity....

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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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