Labor Work

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    • By: James M. Hamilton Jr.
    • Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Short Studies in Biblical Theology series is designed to help listeners see the whole Bible as a unified story - culminating in Jesus....

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    • Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night Time Economy
    • By: Stacey Clare
    • Narrated by: Stacey Clare
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this powerful book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry - the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work, and stigma....

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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: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • A New History of Humankind
    • By: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 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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    • Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
    • By: Eyal Press
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs....

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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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    • 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: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 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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    • 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: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • 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 Beginners Quick Start Guide to Building Your Team of Professionals and Tackling Jobs with Efficiency
    • By: Quinn Chapman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Construction is an industry that is always rife with startups because many people try to break into the industry. It has been noted that many ...

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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: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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    • Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism
    • By: Phil Jones
    • Narrated by: David Vickery
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South....

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    • Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
    • By: Heather Berg
    • Narrated by: Camille Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium....

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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: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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 267 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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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • By: Annie Lowrey
    • Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time....

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    • How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations....

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    • A Memoir of Steel and Grit
    • By: Eliese Colette Goldbach
    • Narrated by: Kelly Pekar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • A young woman's debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as she returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland....

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    • Mothering as Social Change
    • By: Angela Garbes
    • Narrated by: Angela Garbes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work....

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