American Labor

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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    • By: Philip Nicholson
    • Narrated by: Brian E. Smith
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • 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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    • The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
    • By: Steven Greenhouse
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Earle Labor
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast....

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    • Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
    • By: Julius G. Getman
    • Narrated by: Kyle A Northcott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • 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 Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
    • By: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • By: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • 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 Life of Nate Shaw
    • By: Theodore Rosengarten
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • All God's Dangers is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • 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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    • What Happens to People When Work Disappears
    • By: Farah Stockman
    • Narrated by: Farah Stockman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....

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    • An American Story
    • By: Amy Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 454 ratings
    • This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....

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    • All Parties Must Negotiate in Good Faith
    • By: Mark Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Mark Ferguson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There is an old world fading out with a new world coming in. This story represents where the two worlds meet.

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    • By: Joyce Maynard
    • Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • With the end of summer closing in, 13-year-old Henry spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of his female classmates....

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    • Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
    • By: Randy M. Browne
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Randy M. Browne illuminates the predicament and harrowing struggles of enslavers and enslaved laborer at the heart of the plantation world.

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