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From the creators of the Construction Comedy School and the Construction Comic comes ”Men In Labor” Carmen Ciricillo has been making working men and women laugh through his stand up comedy contractor routines and characters on YouTube for many years. He has also owned and operated the Construction Comedy School for over 25 years which teaches contractors with humor and fulfills their continuing education requirements for the field. In the spirit of keeping this going and entertaining the blue collar workforce he has now created ”Men In Labor’ for your podcast pleasure.

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins...

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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. This is news that would have seemed beyond improbable even a decade ago, but companies like Motorola Mobility, Apple, BMW, Bosch, and Volkswagen are opening plants and committing millions of dollars to build new products here.

Are taxi drivers in today's era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Spent Behind the Wheel is a must for listeners interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers' capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state.

(Azerbaijani version is below) Young people are innovative, alert and eager to learn in different contexts, both formal and informal, attracted as they are by the newest sources of information through digital communication, social media and the internet. Their development as citizens and professionals deserves the highest priority in state policies and investment. In EaP countries, youth transition from school to work is challenging, owing to economic conditions (low demand, low levels of job creation, low wages, opportunities to emigrate), societal constraints (for women, in particular, the ...

(Armenian version is below) Young people are innovative, alert and eager to learn in different contexts, both formal and informal, attracted as they are by the newest sources of information through digital communication, social media and the internet. Their development as citizens and professionals deserves the highest priority in state policies and investment. In EaP countries, youth transition from school to work is challenging, owing to economic conditions (low demand, low levels of job creation, low wages, opportunities to emigrate), societal constraints (for women, in particular, the ...

Jamie Merisotis, author of the award-winning 2016 book America Needs Talent, argues that people will coexist with smart machines by learning, earning, and serving others over their lifetimes. But Merisotis asserts large-scale change is necessary to develop and hone the knowledge, skills, and abilities that render us uniquely human. These qualities include compassion, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and interpersonal communication.

Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Bank that Lived a Little by Phillip Augar, read by Jonathan Keeble. Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British...

Read by the author, Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England. 'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' – Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands Pip Fallow...

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors...