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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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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

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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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The Road to Station X

From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park: A Memoir of One Woman’s Journey Through World War Two

by Sarah Baring ...

Narrated by Polly Lee ...

Unabridged

4 hours 6 min

In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height of World War Two, she was working alongside some of the greatest minds of Britain in their code-breaking operations at Bletchley Park.How did she end up in the top-secret world of cyphers and codes?Like many young men and women across all levels of British society, the outbreak of war in 1939 ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height of World War Two, she was working alongside some of the greatest minds of Britain in their code-breaking operations at Bletchley Park.How did she end up in the top-secret world of cyphers and codes?Like many young men and women across all levels of British society, the outbreak of war in 1939
... 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

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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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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

$27.99 CAD

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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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

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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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Disabled Workers Still Struggle

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

8 min

Twenty-two years after George H.W. Bush signed the American Disability Act into law, questions remain on whether the law prevents hiring discrimination of disabled workers. Judy Woodruff talks to U.S. Business Leadership Network’s Jill Houghton and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) about efforts to employ more disabled people. ... Read more

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Twenty-two years after George H.W. Bush signed the American Disability Act into law, questions remain on whether the law prevents hiring discrimination of disabled workers. Judy Woodruff talks to U.S. Business Leadership Network’s Jill Houghton and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) about efforts to employ more disabled people.
... Read more
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$2.00 a Day

Living on Almost Nothing in America

by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists from a leading national poverty expert who defies convention (New York Times). Edin and Shaefer tell the stories of eight families who live on what is almost unimaginable—an income that falls below the World Bank definition of poverty in the developing world. Their stories need to be heard, especially ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists from a leading national poverty expert who defies convention (New York Times). Edin and Shaefer tell the stories of eight families who live on what is almost unimaginable—an income that falls below the World Bank definition of poverty in the developing world. Their stories need to be heard, especially
... Read more
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Big Labor's Big Shift

Why Unions Left Democrats

by Nathan Bomey ...

Unabridged

6 hours

Why Big Labor moved to the right—and the fight ahead for the left to win back America’s working classUnions helped construct the American middle class, defeat Jim Crow, and advance progressive rights, but in Trump’s America, the labor movement is changing. In Big Labor's Big Shift, journalist Nathan Bomey explores how Big Labor and the working class are no longer an automatic ally of the American ... Read more

$41.00 CAD

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Why Big Labor moved to the right—and the fight ahead for the left to win back America’s working classUnions helped construct the American middle class, defeat Jim Crow, and advance progressive rights, but in Trump’s America, the labor movement is changing. In Big Labor's Big Shift, journalist Nathan Bomey explores how Big Labor and the working class are no longer an automatic ally of the American
... Read more
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The Robots Are Coming!

The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation

by Andres Oppenheimer ...

Narrated by Henry Levya ...

Unabridged

12 hours 45 min

Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, Andrés Oppenheimer takes his readers on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for today's jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.The Robots Are Coming! centers around the issue of jobs and their future in the context of rapid automation and the growth of online ... Read more

$29.50 CAD

Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, Andrés Oppenheimer takes his readers on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for today's jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.The Robots Are Coming! centers around the issue of jobs and their future in the context of rapid automation and the growth of online
... Read more
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No Ordinary Day

Espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption - the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

by Matt Johnson ...

Narrated by Richard Attlee ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

Winner of the Book of the Year and Reader's Choice awards at the 2024 CrimeCon True Crime Awards. Highly commended at the same awards for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.Winner of the 2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award (True Crime).Shortlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers Association ALCS Gold Dagger for non-fiction.Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible ... Read more

$22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Winner of the Book of the Year and Reader's Choice awards at the 2024 CrimeCon True Crime Awards. Highly commended at the same awards for Outstanding Investigative Reporting.Winner of the 2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award (True Crime).Shortlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers Association ALCS Gold Dagger for non-fiction.Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible
... Read more
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Organizing Amazon

Building Worker Power under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation

by Tom Vickers, Rachel Fagan, Amanda Gearing, Garfield Hylton, Louveza Iqbal, Ceferina Floresca Javier, Paramanathan Pradeep, Stuart Richards, Tom Rigby, Ferdousara Uddin0 ...

Narrated by Tom Vickers ...

Unabridged

5 hours 13 min

Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study
... Read more
Audiobook

A Participatory Economy

by Robin Hahnel ...

Narrated by Chris Bergman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

A moment for socialism: As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism.Accessible economic model: A Participatory Economy presents a clear and accessible post-capitalist model for those without extensive training or understanding of economics.Penned by a trained economist: Robin Hahnel is a trained economist and a co-founder of the ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A moment for socialism: As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism.Accessible economic model: A Participatory Economy presents a clear and accessible post-capitalist model for those without extensive training or understanding of economics.Penned by a trained economist: Robin Hahnel is a trained economist and a co-founder of the
... Read more
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Souverän ins Jahresgespräch

Ein Austausch auf Augenhöhe mit deiner Führungskraft

by Marion Lemper-Pychlau ...

Narrated by Leonie (AI) ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

Steht das nächste Jahresgespräch an und schon der Gedanke daran löst Unbehagen oder sogar Angst vor der Bewertung aus? Viele Angestellte fühlen sich in dieser Situation wie in einer Prüfung, bei der sie sich rechtfertigen müssen. Doch das muss nicht sein. Mit diesem Hörbuch verwandelst du den Termin in eine echte Chance für deine berufliche Weiterentwicklung und offene Kommunikation.Erfahre, wie ... Read more

$6.99 CAD

Steht das nächste Jahresgespräch an und schon der Gedanke daran löst Unbehagen oder sogar Angst vor der Bewertung aus? Viele Angestellte fühlen sich in dieser Situation wie in einer Prüfung, bei der sie sich rechtfertigen müssen. Doch das muss nicht sein. Mit diesem Hörbuch verwandelst du den Termin in eine echte Chance für deine berufliche Weiterentwicklung und offene Kommunikation.Erfahre, wie
... Read more
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New Work Exchange, The

Embracing the Future by Putting Employees First

by Scott Cawood ...

Narrated by Scott Cawood ...

Unabridged

4 hours 53 min

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE WORK BETTER?With shifting worker expectations and market upheaval, leaders and organizations everywhere are trying to catch their breath. As a result, a division in workplace culture has emerged with some companies clinging to obsolete corporate practices and others feeling lost and overwhelmed.As the CEO of WorldatWork and a self-proclaimed “work nerd,” author Scott ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE WORK BETTER?With shifting worker expectations and market upheaval, leaders and organizations everywhere are trying to catch their breath. As a result, a division in workplace culture has emerged with some companies clinging to obsolete corporate practices and others feeling lost and overwhelmed.As the CEO of WorldatWork and a self-proclaimed “work nerd,” author Scott
... Read more
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Brief History of the Gig Economy, A: How Work Was Reinvented

by Robert Ellison ...

Narrated by Robert Ellison ...

Unabridged

1 hour 53 min

Watch casual freelance hustle and algorithmic management collide to completely redefine the modern future of work. Whether you are grinding through a daily commute or navigating your own side gigs, this thought-provoking deep dive reveals the hidden forces shaping your career.Stop buying into corporate marketing slogans that disguise financial instability as ultimate freedom. This urgent, eye ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Watch casual freelance hustle and algorithmic management collide to completely redefine the modern future of work. Whether you are grinding through a daily commute or navigating your own side gigs, this thought-provoking deep dive reveals the hidden forces shaping your career.Stop buying into corporate marketing slogans that disguise financial instability as ultimate freedom. This urgent, eye
... Read more
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Законы победителей (краткое изложение)

by Бодо Шефер ...

Narrated by Николай Блинов ...

Unabridged

38 min

Бодо Шефер – успешный бизнесмен, востребованный финансовый консультант (на его родине, в Германии, его называют «Финансовым Моцартом») и автор ряда мировых бестселлеров об управлении финансами и мотивации на перемены в жизни. В 16 лет Бодо переехал в США, чтобы получить образование, а после учебы занялся предпринимательством. Однако созданная им торговая компания разорилась, и в 26 лет он остался ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Бодо Шефер – успешный бизнесмен, востребованный финансовый консультант (на его родине, в Германии, его называют «Финансовым Моцартом») и автор ряда мировых бестселлеров об управлении финансами и мотивации на перемены в жизни. В 16 лет Бодо переехал в США, чтобы получить образование, а после учебы занялся предпринимательством. Однако созданная им торговая компания разорилась, и в 26 лет он остался
... Read more
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The Great Resignation

The New Refusal of Work

by Francesca Coin ...

Narrated by Clementine Medforth ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Bloomsbury presents The Great Resignation by Francesca Coin, read by Clementine MedforthBased on the experiences of workers, this book analyzes the reasons behind the unexpected growth of the 'great resignation' and demonstrates how resigning today not only prevents exploitative conditions from deteriorating our health and relationships, but also allows us to reclaim time for ourselves and our ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

Bloomsbury presents The Great Resignation by Francesca Coin, read by Clementine MedforthBased on the experiences of workers, this book analyzes the reasons behind the unexpected growth of the 'great resignation' and demonstrates how resigning today not only prevents exploitative conditions from deteriorating our health and relationships, but also allows us to reclaim time for ourselves and our
... Read more
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The Disney Revolt

The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age

by Jake S. Friedman ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an
... Read more
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Neon Roses

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2024

by Rachel Dawson ...

Narrated by Ffion Aynsley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

A coming-of-age novel about two women falling in love during the culturally and politically turbulent 1980s.It's 1984 in The Valleys, South Wales, and Eluned Hughes is stuck. The miners' strikes are ravaging her family and community, and her boyfriend of six years, Lloyd, is starting to bring up marriage more than she would like. She spends her days selling shoes, listening to Madonna, and trying ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

A coming-of-age novel about two women falling in love during the culturally and politically turbulent 1980s.It's 1984 in The Valleys, South Wales, and Eluned Hughes is stuck. The miners' strikes are ravaging her family and community, and her boyfriend of six years, Lloyd, is starting to bring up marriage more than she would like. She spends her days selling shoes, listening to Madonna, and trying
... Read more
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Henry at Work

Thoreau on Making a Living

by John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornfulof work ... Read more

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What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornfulof work
... Read more
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Career and Family

Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity

by Claudia Goldin ...

Narrated by Nancy Crane ...

Unabridged

9 hours 26 min

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsThis 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 homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever ... Read more

$26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsThis 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 homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever
... Read more
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Shadowbosses

Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

by Mallory Factor ...

Narrated by Mallory Factor ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

The rise of unions is having a deep impact on the workers of America, and this brutally honest exposé serves as a warning to concerned Americans for what’s to come if this continues.SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

The rise of unions is having a deep impact on the workers of America, and this brutally honest exposé serves as a warning to concerned Americans for what’s to come if this continues.SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how
... Read more

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