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Nickel and Dimed

On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich ...

Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often ... Read more

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This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often
... Read more
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Cleanup on Aisle Five

Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register

by Ann Larson ...

Narrated by Carly Robins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

In the tradition of bestselling classics such as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Benjamin Lorr’s The Secret Life of Groceries comes a character-driven exploration of the modern supermarket, unpacking what works and what doesn’t, and delivering a blueprint for a better way to shop.Grocery stores may all seem the same. But the supermarket as an institution is anything but ordinary or one ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In the tradition of bestselling classics such as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Benjamin Lorr’s The Secret Life of Groceries comes a character-driven exploration of the modern supermarket, unpacking what works and what doesn’t, and delivering a blueprint for a better way to shop.Grocery stores may all seem the same. But the supermarket as an institution is anything but ordinary or one
... Read more
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Chokepoint Capitalism

How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.In Chokepoint ... Read more

$20.00 USD

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.In Chokepoint
... Read more
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Saving Capitalism

For the Many, Not the Few

by Robert B. Reich ...

Narrated by Robert B. Reich ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

A Netflix Original DocumentaryAmerica was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparity in eighty years. Why is the economic system that made America strong suddenly failing us, and how can it be fixed?Leading political economist and bestselling author ... Read more

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A Netflix Original DocumentaryAmerica was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparity in eighty years. Why is the economic system that made America strong suddenly failing us, and how can it be fixed?Leading political economist and bestselling author
... Read more
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Average Is Over

Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

by Tyler Cowen ...

Narrated by Andrew Garman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 42 min

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three
... Read more
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Trash!

A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started
... Read more
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New Laws of Robotics

Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale ...

Narrated by Perry Daniels ...

Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation.Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: make ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation.Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: make
... Read more
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The Technology Trap

Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

by Carl Benedikt Frey ...

Narrated by Richard Lyddon ...

Unabridged

15 hours 31 min

This audiobook narrated by Richard Lyddon reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automationFrom the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook narrated by Richard Lyddon reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automationFrom the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic
... Read more
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Ecocide

Kill the corporation before it kills us

by David Whyte ...

Narrated by Steph Bower ...

Series series Manchester University Press
Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in continued profitability in a scenario of a five-degree increase in global temperature. An increase that will kill millions, if not billions. ... Read more

$30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in continued profitability in a scenario of a five-degree increase in global temperature. An increase that will kill millions, if not billions.
... Read more
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Work in the Future

The Automation Revolution

Narrated by Steve Menasche, Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

7 hours 12 min

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the listener ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the listener
... Read more
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Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole ...

Narrated by Malk Williams ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once ... Read more

$27.99 USD

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once
... Read more
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Universal Basic Income

(The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

by Karl Widerquist ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary
... Read more
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Get It in Writing

The Ultimate Guide to Your Rights at Work

by Ryan Stygar ...

Narrated by Ryan Stygar ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

From Attorney Ryan, the most well-known labor lawyer in America, the complete guide to workers’ rights that your boss doesn’t want you to readLife for working people is getting harder and more expensive. While employers clamp down with return-to-office mandates, productivity trackers, and layoffs, employees are struggling to keep up with daily expenses. Meanwhile, workers are expected to make huge ... Read more

$24.00 USD

From Attorney Ryan, the most well-known labor lawyer in America, the complete guide to workers’ rights that your boss doesn’t want you to readLife for working people is getting harder and more expensive. While employers clamp down with return-to-office mandates, productivity trackers, and layoffs, employees are struggling to keep up with daily expenses. Meanwhile, workers are expected to make huge
... Read more
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Win a Job Interview and Get Hired

by Dr. David K. Ewen ...

Narrated by Dr. David K. Ewen ...

Unabridged

40 min

In this insightful and practical guide, listeners are presented with valuable strategies to excel in job interviews and secure their dream careers. This audiobook offers a comprehensive roadmap to achieving career success and professional growth.Drawing from a wealth of knowledge and expertise, the author equips listeners with essential interview techniques and tips to stand out among other ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this insightful and practical guide, listeners are presented with valuable strategies to excel in job interviews and secure their dream careers. This audiobook offers a comprehensive roadmap to achieving career success and professional growth.Drawing from a wealth of knowledge and expertise, the author equips listeners with essential interview techniques and tips to stand out among other
... Read more
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Supercapitalism

The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

by Robert B. Reich ...

Narrated by Dick Hill ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. Consumers have been treated to a vast array of new products, while the prices of standard goods and services have declined. Companies have also become far more efficient and the stock market has surged. In short, American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world.At the same time, argues ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. Consumers have been treated to a vast array of new products, while the prices of standard goods and services have declined. Companies have also become far more efficient and the stock market has surged. In short, American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world.At the same time, argues
... Read more
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Gig Economy, The: How an App Reinvented Work and Killed the Job

by Michael Hartman ...

Narrated by Michael Hartman ...

Unabridged

2 hours 6 min

Uncover how the modern gig economy weaponized hustle culture, turning entrepreneurial freedom into algorithmic management. Perfect for your daily commute, this urgent, thought-provoking narrative exposes the hidden machinery of venture capital and smartphone platforms. It reveals how an app engineered a new labor system out of our desperation for financial flexibility.If you are navigating career ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Uncover how the modern gig economy weaponized hustle culture, turning entrepreneurial freedom into algorithmic management. Perfect for your daily commute, this urgent, thought-provoking narrative exposes the hidden machinery of venture capital and smartphone platforms. It reveals how an app engineered a new labor system out of our desperation for financial flexibility.If you are navigating career
... Read more
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Finding Your Inner Calm

Release Stress Through Everyday Mindfulness

by Mathias Tobian ...

Narrated by Aria Bloom ...

Unabridged

4 hours 13 min

Finally breathe again – Your journey to greater calm starts nowDo you know the feeling that everyday life is overwhelming you? Constant time pressure at work, the endless to-do list, and the feeling of never being able to truly switch off – this is how millions of people live today. But there is a way out of the hamster wheel of overwhelm."Calm Begins Within You" shows you how to find inner peace ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Finally breathe again – Your journey to greater calm starts nowDo you know the feeling that everyday life is overwhelming you? Constant time pressure at work, the endless to-do list, and the feeling of never being able to truly switch off – this is how millions of people live today. But there is a way out of the hamster wheel of overwhelm."Calm Begins Within You" shows you how to find inner peace
... Read more
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Love the Work, Hate the Job

Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy than Ever

by David Kusnet ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

Over the years, American jobs have become more intellectually challenging and less physically exhausting. Yet more and more American workers—blue collar, white collar, and pink collar—are expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs. They love their careers, but not their working conditions. What turns a model employee into a malcontent?David Kusnet followed the workers at four companies in the ... Read more

$16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Over the years, American jobs have become more intellectually challenging and less physically exhausting. Yet more and more American workers—blue collar, white collar, and pink collar—are expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs. They love their careers, but not their working conditions. What turns a model employee into a malcontent?David Kusnet followed the workers at four companies in the
... Read more
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The Horse Is Here to Stay

Work, Wages, and Human Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines

by David Vanheeswijck ...

Narrated by AI Voice Jonathan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 17 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Somewhere a factory is running a full shift with the lights off. Not because the bulbs failed, but because no one is there who needs them. The output is real. What has gone missing is the worker, and with the worker, the wage.For thirty years David Vanheeswijck wrote the software that let companies produce more without hiring more. The Horse Is Here to ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Somewhere a factory is running a full shift with the lights off. Not because the bulbs failed, but because no one is there who needs them. The output is real. What has gone missing is the worker, and with the worker, the wage.For thirty years David Vanheeswijck wrote the software that let companies produce more without hiring more. The Horse Is Here to
... Read more
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Berufstätige Mütter - Alltag meistern

Vereinbarkeit von Familie & Beruf: Stressfrei Mutterschaft & Karriere meistern.

by Marion Lemper-Pychlau ...

Narrated by Lucy Fennek (AI) ...

Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

Kennst du das Gefühl, ständig unter Strom zu stehen? Der Wecker klingelt, und schon beginnt der tägliche Marathon: Kinder versorgen, zur Arbeit hetzen, Deadlines einhalten, den Haushalt organisieren und dabei bloß nicht das Lächeln verlieren. Als berufstätige Mutter leistest du jeden Tag Unglaubliches. Doch oft bleibt dabei eines auf der Strecke: Du selbst. Die ständige Zerrissenheit zwischen dem ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Kennst du das Gefühl, ständig unter Strom zu stehen? Der Wecker klingelt, und schon beginnt der tägliche Marathon: Kinder versorgen, zur Arbeit hetzen, Deadlines einhalten, den Haushalt organisieren und dabei bloß nicht das Lächeln verlieren. Als berufstätige Mutter leistest du jeden Tag Unglaubliches. Doch oft bleibt dabei eines auf der Strecke: Du selbst. Die ständige Zerrissenheit zwischen dem
... Read more
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The Aristocracy of Talent

How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

Unabridged

18 hours 8 min

The Times (UK) book of the year!Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed ... Read more

$30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Times (UK) book of the year!Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed
... Read more
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Trabajo asalariado y capital

by Karl Marx ...

Narrated by José Peña Coto ...

Unabridged

1 hour 27 min

Introducción accesible a los conceptos clave del pensamiento marxista.Trabajo asalariado y capital es crucial para entender las bases del pensamiento marxista sobre la economía y la sociedad. Proporciona una crítica incisiva del capitalismo y sienta las bases de la obra posterior de Karl Marx, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la historia moderna.Aunque no es tan extensa ni tan conocida ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Introducción accesible a los conceptos clave del pensamiento marxista.Trabajo asalariado y capital es crucial para entender las bases del pensamiento marxista sobre la economía y la sociedad. Proporciona una crítica incisiva del capitalismo y sienta las bases de la obra posterior de Karl Marx, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la historia moderna.Aunque no es tan extensa ni tan conocida
... Read more
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Camino de libertad

La economía y la buena sociedad

by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...

Narrated by Carlos Canales ...

Unabridged

11 hours 39 min

El nuevo libro de Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de Economía«Un argumento sólido a favor de un capitalismo progresista basado en la cooperación para el bien común».KirkusLa libertad es la idea que subyace a las sociedades occidentales, pero de un tiempo a esta parte su significado se ha desplazado: la libertad es la libertad de las empresas para contaminar, la de las grandes tecnológicas para ... Read more

$20.99 USD

El nuevo libro de Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de Economía«Un argumento sólido a favor de un capitalismo progresista basado en la cooperación para el bien común».KirkusLa libertad es la idea que subyace a las sociedades occidentales, pero de un tiempo a esta parte su significado se ha desplazado: la libertad es la libertad de las empresas para contaminar, la de las grandes tecnológicas para
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The Work We Need

'An act of radical hope, radical listening and radical humility . . . I loved it' RORY STEWART

by Hilary Cottam ...

Narrated by Hilary Cottam ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST'Highly recommend - practical and full of human wisdom' FINANCIAL TIMES'Brimming with ideas to transform the future' KATE RAWORTH, author of DOUGHNUT ECONOMICSWork, for decades, has been debated and discussed as a na... ... Read more

$31.99 USD

'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST'Highly recommend - practical and full of human wisdom' FINANCIAL TIMES'Brimming with ideas to transform the future' KATE RAWORTH, author of DOUGHNUT ECONOMICSWork, for decades, has been debated and discussed as a na...
... Read more

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