Labour Relations 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time
    • By: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek present a vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics....

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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 Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
    • By: David Goodhart
    • Narrated by: David Goodhart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to head (cognitive), hand (manual/craft) and heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies, they have got out of kilter....

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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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    • 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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    • Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
    • By: James Neff
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-2015
    • Language: English
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    • One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis, Jimmy Hoffa....

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    • The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
    • By: Craig Lambert
    • Narrated by: James Jenner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2015
    • Language: English
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    • With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, our society, and the family....

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    • True Stories from Quarry Bank
    • By: David Hanson
    • Narrated by: John Lightbody
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Mill - set in early 19th-century Cheshire - was Channel 4's biggest drama launch of 2013....

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