Industrial Economics

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    • Written by: Klaus Schwab
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Written by: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
    • Written by: Ellen Ruppel Shell
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-17
    • Language: English
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    • In a wide-ranging narrative, Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being - and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and meaningful work will be challenged in the years ahead....

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    • The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
    • Written by: Eric Blanc
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • Written by: Barry Estabrook
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2011-09-30
    • Language: English
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    • Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright...

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • Written by: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Written by: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-08
    • Language: English
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    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
    • Written by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • Written by: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • Written by: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Andrew Yang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Walter A. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-10
    • Language: English
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    • This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society....

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    • Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
    • Written by: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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    • How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
    • Written by: Ellen E. Schultz
    • Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It’s no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs....

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    • How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
    • Written by: Jeremy Rifkin
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2011-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Author Jeremy Rifkin presents an insider's account of the next great economic era: the Third Industrial Revolution, when a new ethic of sustainability will revolutionize the world we live in....

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • Written by: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
    • Written by: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Learning to Labor in the 21st Century
    • Written by: Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • After decades of off-shoring, downsizing, shuttered factories, and stranded blue collar workers, the United States is on the edge of an industrial renaissance....

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