Working Class Politics

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    • By: E.P. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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....

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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 the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
    • By: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more.

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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 1,604 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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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • By: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class", a strike wave - the first in over four decades - rocked the United States....

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    • Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
    • By: Joan C. Williams
    • Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class....

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    • Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
    • By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

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    • A New Working History of the American Way of Life
    • By: Adam Chandler
    • Narrated by: Adam Chandler
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 99% Perspiration unpacks the misguided obsession with hard work that has come to define both the American dream and nightmare, offering insight into how we got here and hope for where we may go.

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    • How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
    • By: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....

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    • A Brief History of Anti-Populism
    • By: Thomas Frank
    • Narrated by: Thomas Frank
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 516 ratings
    • Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong....

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    • Invisible in America
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....

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    • Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
    • By: Claudia Goldin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Crane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....

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    • Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
    • By: Henry Olsen
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal....

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    • Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
    • By: Tom Wetzel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The United States has a dramatic history of workers organizing on the job. In the last seventy odd years, labor organizations have made peace with owners, and wages, various protections, and safety has diminished....

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    • Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
    • By: Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm DeBevoise - Translated by
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal....

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

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    • Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
    • By: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,597 ratings
    • Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left....

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    • The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
    • By: Nicholas Lemann
    • Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Nicholas Lemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Over the last generation, stable US institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality....

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    • The Demonization of the Working Class
    • By: Owen Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....

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