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One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party...

Plongez au cœur de l'histoire humaine pour comprendre comment l'agriculture a forgé civilisations et inégalités. Cette écoute intellectuellement stimulante transforme votre trajet quotidien en une vaste exploration anthropologique. Le passage de la vie nomade à la sédentarité s'avère...

L'essor industriel américain cache une lutte féroce entre richesse vertigineuse et inégalités dévastatrices. Idéale pour enrichir votre réflexion lors de vos trajets, cette immersion sonore captivante retrace la transformation brutale d'une nation d'après-guerre en empire des monopoles...

Décryptez les inégalités économiques et saisissez enfin pourquoi la richesse mondiale échappe à la majorité. Loin des concepts abstraits, cette écoute accessible vous accompagne idéalement lors de vos trajets quotidiens pour clarifier votre vision de la société. Plongez dans une...

Erlebe packende amerikanische Geschichte und begreife, wie rasanter industrieller Aufstieg extreme Ungleichheit schuf. Aus den rauchenden Trümmern des Bürgerkriegs katapultierten Eisenbahnimperien und ungebremste Spekulation eine Nation in die Moderne. Diese dynamische Erzählung verwandelt...

Décryptez le pouvoir économique et la finance moderne pour comprendre la face cachée des fortunes extrêmes. Loin des mythes et des condamnations hâtives, cette enquête sociologique dissèque la création, la gestion et la transmission des empires contemporains. Parfait pour enrichir vos...

Entdecke in diesem historischen Sachbuch, wie die Agrarrevolution unsere Zivilisation und soziale Ungleichheit erschuf. Perfekt für das konzentrierte Zuhören beim Pendeln, nimmt dich diese augenöffnende Zeitreise mit zu den tiefsten Wurzeln der Menschheit. Erweitere deinen intellektuellen...

Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.

Träume kennen keine Herkunft: die Geschichte eines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs Mahmut Martin Yüksel wächst als Kind jesidisch-kurdischer Eltern in einem Dorf in Niedersachsen auf. Am Küchentisch fliegt eine bunte Mischung aus Sprachen hin und her: Georgisch,Türkisch und Kurdisch – und...

Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture?

The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The United States has a dramatic history of workers organizing on the job. In the last seventy odd years, labor organizations have made peace with owners, and wages, various protections, and safety has diminished. All during an era that, despite its ups and downs, has been extremely profitable for the ownership class. Tom Wetzel provides a solution to that failure by showing how a democratic outcome can be built into the method of struggle for social change.

This program is read by the author with a foreword written and read by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl. "An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world."...

The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make it equitable for the users and workers most exploited.

Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes listeners on an uplifting journey through women’s transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival. 

"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over...

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change. There is a mounting sense that our political-economic...

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...

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.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, read by Finlay Robertson. Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child...