Class Politics

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,592 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

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    • How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
    • By: Madeline Levine PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of mental illness....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
    • By: Robert Frank
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through Richistan entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61,526 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
    • By: Hugh Brewster
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 968 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
    • By: Hannah McElhinney
    • Narrated by: Rudy Jean Rigg
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet....

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    • The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....

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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,782 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....

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    • The Forging of SEAL Class 228
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,210 ratings
    • With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world....

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • By: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Stephanie Land
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.”

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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