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Bestsellers
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....
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Incredibly disappointing...
- By Jordan Burton on 12-21-18
By: David Graeber
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- By: Peter Robison
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....
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(Revised). Missing some, but informative.
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
By: Peter Robison
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Book is fully disinterested in male laborers
- By Jeremy Kean on 06-05-21
By: Sarah Jaffe
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills
- West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
- By: James Green
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....
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Phenomenal labor history, riveting narrative
- By Chris Brooks on 03-11-18
By: James Green
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
By: Daniel Markovits
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....
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Incredibly disappointing...
- By Jordan Burton on 12-21-18
By: David Graeber
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- By: Peter Robison
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....
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(Revised). Missing some, but informative.
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
By: Peter Robison
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Book is fully disinterested in male laborers
- By Jeremy Kean on 06-05-21
By: Sarah Jaffe
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills
- West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
- By: James Green
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....
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Phenomenal labor history, riveting narrative
- By Chris Brooks on 03-11-18
By: James Green
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup M.D.
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
By: Daniel Markovits
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On the Line
- A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
- By: Daisy Pitkin
- Narrated by: Daisy Pitkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On the Line takes listeners inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories of Phoenix, Arizona....
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Powerful story
- By Amazon Customer on 02-10-23
By: Daisy Pitkin
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Capital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3
- A Critique of Political Economy
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 104 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'....
By: Karl Marx
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Human + Machine
- Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
- By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A golf course book
- By C. Surdak on 07-30-18
By: Paul R. Daugherty, and others
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Holding the Line
- Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....
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the incredible women behind the .minors strike.
- By Edith K Sherman on 04-23-24
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer
- Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
- By: Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical audio guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement....
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Great Resource
- By Stephen S. on 02-07-24
By: Staughton Lynd, and others
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Rank and File
- Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
- By: Alice Lynd - editor, Staughton Lynd - editor
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond, Jeanette Illidge, Tiffany Morgan, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this long-out-of-print oral history classic, Alice and Staughton Lynd chronicle the stories of more than two dozen working-class organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked out, picketed, and found other bold and innovative ways to fight for workers' rights....
By: Alice Lynd - editor, and others
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
- By: Erik Loomis
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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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great read
- By Perscors on 03-17-19
By: Erik Loomis
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
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Disappointing
- By Ellen on 01-26-20
By: Jane McAlevey
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Soul Full of Coal Dust
- A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
- By: Chris Hamby
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down....
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A perfect blend of informational and interesting
- By Josh Boyle on 09-12-20
By: Chris Hamby
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Private Government
- How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
- By: Elizabeth Anderson
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives....
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Disappointing 
- By That Guy on 02-17-24
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Behind the Startup
- How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
- By: Benjamin Shestakofsky
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Behind the Startup focuses on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on 19 months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.
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Wall Street's War on Workers
- How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It
- By: Les Leopold
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wall Street’s War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of the Labor Institute, provides a clear lens with which we can see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of employees....
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Timely and informative
- By Andrea on 04-01-24
By: Les Leopold
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The Power of Potential
- How a Nontraditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business Better
- By: Thomas D'Eri
- Narrated by: Thomas D’Eri
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way. When Tom D’Eri and his father John bought the location in 2013, it was struggling. Now it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida....
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Take notes!
- By Leora S. Tilocca on 02-15-23
By: Thomas D'Eri
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Labor's Story in the United States
- By: Philip Nicholson
- Narrated by: Brian E. Smith
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in 20 years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America....
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Long, thorough, balanced, painfully truthful
- By Steve Senatori on 05-02-16
By: Philip Nicholson
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Meatpacking America
- How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
- By: Kristy Nabhan-Warren
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The Midwest is not simply the place where animals are fed corn and then butchered. Native Midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry. In Meatpacking America, she digs deep below the stereotype....
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Everyone who eats meat should listen
- By Tara L. Hagemann on 11-21-22
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....
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Disgusting
- By Frank on 09-23-18
By: Shane Bauer
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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines
- By: Jamie Merisotis
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The robots might or might not be coming to take our jobs, but it's clear that society is being thrust into a new era of human work....
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Interesting
- By Cliente Amazon on 03-22-24
By: Jamie Merisotis
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Killing for Coal
- America’s Deadliest Labor War
- By: Thomas G. Andrews
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead....
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The Supreme Court on Unions
- Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
- By: Julius G. Getman
- Narrated by: Kyle A Northcott
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines....
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Great book!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-19
By: Julius G. Getman
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- By: Marie Hicks
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
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In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize....
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Old age problem of Female Inequality.
- By cosmitron on 04-25-18
By: Marie Hicks
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The Making of the English Working Class
- By: E.P. Thompson
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....
By: E.P. Thompson
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The Edge of Anarchy
- The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
- By: Jack Kelly
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....
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Wow! every workingman should read.
- By Calemos on 01-18-20
By: Jack Kelly
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The Ludlow Massacre
- The History of the National Guard’s Attack on Striking Miners During the Colorado Coalfield War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ryan Durham
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tensions between workers and companies led to demonstrations, encounters, and even conflicts that descended into violence. Few were as notorious as the fight that took place on April 20, 1914 at Ludlow....
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The Socialist Manifesto
- The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
- By: Bhaskar Sunkara
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....
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Not that radical actually
- By Evan on 05-31-19
By: Bhaskar Sunkara