Social Work 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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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
    • By: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced. In A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different....

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    • How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
    • By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them....

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    • And How We Can Make Inequality History
    • By: Gill Whitty-Collins
    • Narrated by: Gill Whitty-Collins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In this provocative audiobook, Gill Whitty-Collins looks beyond the facts and figures on gender bias and uncovers the invisible discrimination that continues to sabotage us in the workplace and limits our shared success....

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    • The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
    • By: Joseph Vogel
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first book dedicated solely to exploring his creative work, Man in the Music guides us through an unparalleled analysis of Jackson’s recordings, album by album....

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    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • By: Claire Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....

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    • How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
    • By: Elizabeth Anderson
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Jania
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

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    • The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
    • By: Capricia Penavic Marshall
    • Narrated by: Capricia Penavic Marshall, Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • President Obama's former United States chief of protocol looks at why etiquette and diplomacy matter - from the international stage to everyday life....

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    • The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Graham Vick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In After the Music Stopped, Blinder delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it....

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    • Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
    • By: Nick Bilton
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 14-09-2010
    • Language: English
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    • Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Listen to find out more....

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    • By: Danielle Friedman
    • Narrated by: Danielle Friedman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's exercise culture - from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda - and how women have parlayed physical strength into other forms of power....

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