Social Work History

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    • A New History of Humankind
    • Written by: Jan Lucassen
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release Date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • From hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages....

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    • The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
    • Written by: Craig Lambert
    • Narrated by: James Jenner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release Date: 27-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, our society, and the family....

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    • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    • Written by: Kathi Weeks
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release Date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative....

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    • How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
    • Written by: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release Date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy. Using a diverse array of evidence, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • Written by: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release Date: 12-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • Written by: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release Date: 16-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • A History of How We Spend Our Time
    • Written by: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Matt Jamie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release Date: 07-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present....

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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: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced. In A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different....

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    • How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
    • Written by: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release Date: 26-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them....

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    • Why Federalism Doesn't Work
    • Written by: Donald F. Kettl
    • Narrated by: Terrence Bayes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release Date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Making an urgent case for reforming federalism, The Divided States of America shows why we must - and how we can - address the crisis of American inequality....

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    • The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
    • Written by: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Graham Vick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release Date: 17-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In After the Music Stopped, Blinder delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it....

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    • How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
    • Written by: Elizabeth Anderson
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Jania
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release Date: 30-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

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    • Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
    • Written by: Mary Pipher
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release Date: 06-03-18
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with the newest members of the American family - refugees....

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    • How States Shaped Literature
    • Written by: Robert Darnton
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release Date: 24-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works....

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    • A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
    • Written by: Richard Twiss
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release Date: 08-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America....

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    • How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health
    • Written by: Jonathan Foiles
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release Date: 21-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • In his clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, walks us through these and other troubling examples of bias in mental health, placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry and the DSM....

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    • And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
    • Written by: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release Date: 29-06-10
    • Language: English
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    • The national best seller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities....

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    • Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work
    • Written by: Dan Honig
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release Date: 19-09-18
    • Language: English
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    • Foreign aid organizations spend billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters....

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    • How It Really Works and Why It Matters
    • Written by: Jeremy J. Baumberg
    • Narrated by: Rory Barnett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release Date: 18-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Secret Life of Science is a dispatch from the frontlines of modern science. It paints a startling picture of a complex scientific ecosystem that has become the most competitive free-market environment on the planet....

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