Social Labour

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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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    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • By: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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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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    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2011
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

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    • A Theory
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working 15-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened....

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    • The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
    • By: Rose Hackman
    • Narrated by: Rose Hackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For fans of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day....

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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Savitri D, Jacques Servin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes.

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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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    • Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement
    • By: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
    • Narrated by: Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Rebecca Loman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months, they had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing allegations....

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    • A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
    • By: Kate Northrup
    • Narrated by: Kate Northrup
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....

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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 Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
    • By: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Narrated by: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities....

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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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    • 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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    • Power and Participation in Union Negotiations
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey, Abby Lawlor
    • Narrated by: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy.

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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 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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    • The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
    • By: Molly Smith, Juno Mac
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?

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