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The War on Normal People
- The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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***New York Times Bestseller*** From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic...
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Scary and inspirational
- By Nick Ball on 01-08-18
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The War on Normal People
- The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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The Great Leveler
- Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Dirty Work
- By: Eyal Press
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work – labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. Undocumented immigrants who man the 'kill floors' of industrial slaughterhouses. Roustabouts who drill for oil on offshore rigs. And drone operators who kill people from thousands of miles away.
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Dirty Work
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-02-22
- Language: English
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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- By: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are...
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Essential reading on both sides of The Pond.
- By Kindle Customer on 22-05-16
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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-03-15
- Language: English
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Harvest
- The True Cost of Cotton
- By: Maryam Aslany, Rana Dasgupta
- Narrated by: Pooya Mohseni, Nadia Marshall, Vikas Adam, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Harvest transports listeners to the beautiful and eerie world of India’s cotton fields. Source of the most intimate and universal of commodities, we find these white-flecked lands pushed to their limit by global pressures.
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The stark truth about this situation was clearly brought to me by some brilliant journalism
- By Mrs P on 13-12-25
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Harvest
- The True Cost of Cotton
- Narrated by: Pooya Mohseni, Nadia Marshall, Vikas Adam, Manu Narayan, Azhar Khan, Anjali Bhimani, Lucy Rayner, Sandeep C Deshpande, Pushan Kripalani, Robbin Singh, Sachit Murthy, Nagesh Prasad, Mahika Singh, Ankita Podder
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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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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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon...
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Excellent
- By Suke on 22-06-23
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class poverty in America. Born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teenage mothers on her maternal side, Smarsh grew up in a family of labourers trapped in a cycle of poverty. She learned about hard work and also absorbed painful lessons about economic inequality, eventually coming to understand the powerful forces that have blighted the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the heartland.
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Powerful memoir and critique
- By Arlene Finnigan on 23-11-21
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Heartland
- A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- By: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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Such an important book
- By I nearly did on 14-04-17
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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The Power of Privilege
- How white people can challenge racism
- By: June Sarpong
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of racism that persists today. Many of those privileged enough to be distanced from racism are now having to come to terms with the fact that they continue to prosper at the...
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Straightforward
- By Gary on 07-10-20
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The Power of Privilege
- How white people can challenge racism
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- By: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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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. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
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Essential analysis
- By Frank Amin on 13-01-25
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- By: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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Read This When Things Fall Apart
- Letters to Activists in Crisis
- By: Kelly Hayes
- Narrated by: Amina Camille
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable. Campaigns will be lost. Mental health crises will occur. Social ills, like gender-based violence, will manifest themselves in movement spaces. People will experience profound personal losses. Grief, alienation, and despair can grind us under. Sometimes, we need accompaniment. Sometimes, we need to be met where we’re at by a caring voice of experience. Read This When Things Fall Apart is a care package for activists and organizers building power under fascistic, demoralizing conditions.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart
- Letters to Activists in Crisis
- Narrated by: Amina Camille
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-11-25
- Language: English
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As Gods Among Men
- A History of the Rich in the West
- By: Guido Alfani
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy. Eventually, the rich were deemed useful when they used their wealth to help their communities in times of crisis. Yet in the twenty-first century, the rich and the super-rich have been exceptionally reluctant to contribute to the common good in times of crisis.
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Promised so much. Delivered so little
- By The Commandante on 20-07-25
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As Gods Among Men
- A History of the Rich in the West
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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The Estate
- My Life Working on the Front Line of Britain's Housing Crisis
- By: Charmain Bynoe
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Charmain Bynoe, a council housing officer for the London borough of Southwark, inspired the nation when she appeared on the TV series Council House Britain. Now, in The Estate, she shines a light on the challenges faced by so many of our citizens and provides heartwarming and inspirational...
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enjoying it !!
- By Prashant G on 01-09-23
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The Estate
- My Life Working on the Front Line of Britain's Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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La guerra contra Occidente
- Cómo resistir en la era de la sinrazón
- By: Douglas Murray, David Paradela López - translator
- Narrated by: not specified
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Por el autor del best seller internacional La masa enfurecida. Un ensayo provocador sobre la hostilidad hacia Occidente Si la historia de la humanidad es un relato construido sobre la esclavitud, la conquista, el genocidio y la explotación, ¿por qué son solo las naciones occidentales quienes...
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La guerra contra Occidente
- Cómo resistir en la era de la sinrazón
- Narrated by: not specified
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-04-26
- Language: Spanish
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Belonging Without Othering
- How We Save Ourselves and the World
- By: John A. Powell, Stephen Menendian
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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The pressures that separate us have a common root: our tendency to cast people and groups in irreconcilable terms – or the process of "othering." This book gives vital language to this universal problem, unveiling its machinery at work across time and around the world. To subvert it, john a. powell and Stephen Menendian make a powerful and sweeping case for adopting a paradigm of belonging that does not require the creation of an "other." This new paradigm hinges on transitioning from narrow to expansive identities.
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Belonging Without Othering
- How We Save Ourselves and the World
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-05-25
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise
- The New Upper Class and How They Got There
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the...
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Bobos in Paradise
- The New Upper Class and How They Got There
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-01-01
- Language: English
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- By: Jason L. Riley
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer Black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
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Please read this book if you really want to help!
- By Mohani on 25-06-20
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-08-14
- Language: English
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- By: Heather McGhee
- Narrated by: Heather McGhee
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie.
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Well Researched, Written & Presented
- By Another Satisfied Customer on 11-01-22
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- Narrated by: Heather McGhee
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Wage Standard
- What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
- By: Arindrajit Dube
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics. How did the labor market stop working for so many in the...
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The Wage Standard
- What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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