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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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Absolute Game Changer!
- By Flame Lily on 06-04-2019
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Brotopia
- Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasy land of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules....
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Must read for the tech age
- By Daniel on 08-12-2021
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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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Enjoyable overview
- By Rafael Ernesto Sodre on 02-07-2018
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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
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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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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
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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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Ruined by Design
- How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
- By: Mike Monteiro
- Narrated by: Mike Monteiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence....
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Good insights, but far too long
- By Nupur Aggarwal on 05-10-2021
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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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Absolute Game Changer!
- By Flame Lily on 06-04-2019
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Brotopia
- Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasy land of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules....
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Must read for the tech age
- By Daniel on 08-12-2021
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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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Enjoyable overview
- By Rafael Ernesto Sodre on 02-07-2018
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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
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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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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
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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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Ruined by Design
- How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
- By: Mike Monteiro
- Narrated by: Mike Monteiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence....
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Good insights, but far too long
- By Nupur Aggarwal on 05-10-2021
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The Communist Manifesto
- With an Introduction by Yanis Varoufakis
- By: Karl Marx, Yanis Varoufakis - introduction
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. This edition includes a new introduction by the economist and best-selling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis....
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Out of the Slave Fields
- Liberating Children from Brick Kilns and Brothels
- By: Bruce Ladebu
- Narrated by: Brian Pederson
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The death sentence of slavery is still a harrowing reality for far too many—both young and old—despite the improvements of the 21st century....
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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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Machiavelli for Women
- Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
- By: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Narrated by: Stacey Vanek Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes a guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling....
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Well-crafted, super helpful guide
- By Joachim on 08-01-2024
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The War on Normal People
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....
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Yang 2020
- By Samson on 18-03-2019
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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'....
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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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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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
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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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Means and Ends
- The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
- By: Zoe Baker
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice....
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The Wages of Whiteness
- 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
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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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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
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For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism....
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The Female Vision
- Women's Real Power at Work
- By: Sally Helgesen, Julie Johnson
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Women and men experience the world differently - not only do they see things differently, but they see different things....
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After Work
- 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
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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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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- By: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....
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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
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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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intense
- By Anonymous User on 16-04-2019
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Work Without the Worker
- Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism
- By: Phil Jones
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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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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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
- By: Tansy E. Hoskins, Andreja Pejić - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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The award-winning classic on why we must revolutionise the fashion industry....
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Well narrated and thought provoking
- By Anonymous User on 28-11-2023
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Why David Sometimes Wins
- Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
- By: Marshall Ganz
- Narrated by: Marshall Ganz
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history....
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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
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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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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology (Annotated)
- The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
- By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....
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Just Business
- Multinational Corporations and Human Rights
- By: John Gerard Ruggie
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business....
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Hired
- Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
- By: James Bloodworth
- Narrated by: Alister Austin
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the time trials of a council care worker and the grim reality behind the glossy Uber app, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very front line of low-wage Britain....
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Eye-opener
- By ELIZABETH on 03-08-2019
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Live Work Work Work Die
- A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
- By: Corey Pein
- Narrated by: Corey Pein
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit....
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Interesting but distant
- By Ronan on 27-06-2019
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The Four-Day Workweek
- By: Robert Grosse
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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This provocative book makes a compelling case for reducing the number of workdays in a week to four. International business expert Robert Grosse draws on scholarly research to construct an appealing argument for why the four-day workweek benefits both the organization and the employee....