Labour History

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • By: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
    • By: Jean Helion
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Use of Indentured Workers in the Modern Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2017
    • Language: English
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    • It has often been said that the greatest invention of all time was the sail, which facilitated the internationalization of the globe and thus ushered in the modern era....

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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
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 Secret History of a Labor Fiasco
    • By: Samantha Maiden
    • Narrated by: Leah McLeod
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Secrets, lies, lawyers and covert recordings. If you thought the 2019 election was just about a death tax that didn't exist, you're in for a surprise....

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    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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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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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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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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    • Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
    • By: Tim Shipman
    • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
    • Length: 36 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The unmissable account of Brexit, from political insider and best-selling author of All Out War, Tim Shipman....

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    • With an Introduction by Yanis Varoufakis
    • By: Karl Marx, Yanis Varoufakis - introduction
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. This edition includes a new introduction by the economist and best-selling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis....

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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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    • The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
    • By: Mae M. Ngai
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations....

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    • An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
    • By: Stefan Waydenfeld
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north....

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    • The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
    • By: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions.

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    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
    • By: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
    • Narrated by: Penny McDonald
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories....

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    • The Road to the Final Solution
    • By: Peter Longerich
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials....

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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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    • 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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