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Stayin' Alive

The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

By: Jefferson R. Cowie
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history,... Read more

The Double X Economy

The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment

By: Linda Scott
Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix & Linda Scott
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

This program includes an introduction read by the author

Winner of the 2020 Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award

One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2020. Finalist for the 2020 Royal Science Society Book Prize and the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards. Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year

“Linda... Read more

Cogs and Monsters

What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

By: Diane Coyle
Narrated by: Gina Rogers
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and... Read more

We Too

Essays on Sex Work and Survival

By: Natalie West
Narrated by: Diana Blue & Angel Pean
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's never been a better time to fight for justice. Responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, sex workers from across the industry—hookers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, porn stars, cam models, Dommes and subs alike—complicate... Read more

A History of America in Ten Strikes

By: Erik Loomis
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018Named one of the “5 Books About Famous Strikes That Demonstrated the Historical Importance of Civil Disobedience” by Bustle“Loomis refuses to romanticize this period or the labor movement it produced. . . . What Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many... Read more

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

By: Angus Deaton & Anne Case
Narrated by: Kate Harper
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times ​​​​​​​Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper reveals how the flaws in capitalism are fatal... Read more

Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).

In... Read more

Bullshit Jobs

A Theory

By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this... Read more

How the Other Half Eats

The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

By: Priya Fielding-Singh
Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh & York Whitaker
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

This important book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative” (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional disparities in America, illuminating exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate.

Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere... Read more

One Fair Wage

Ending Subminimum Pay in America

By: Saru Jayaraman
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the country, more than six million people earned their living as tipped workers in the service industry. They served us in cafes and restaurants, they delivered food to our homes, they drove us wherever we wanted to go, and they worked in nail salons for as little as $2.13 an hour—the federal tipped... Read more

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Angela Y. Davis
Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis & Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“The audiobook, which I listened to, is read by Davis herself, and in these times of multiple crises it was amazing to hear her voice and listen to her words - steadying, galvanising, wise, clear and sharp. Read more

The Future is Degrowth

A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter & Aaron Vansintjan
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with... Read more

The Viral Underclass

The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher
Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl & Steven W. Thrasher
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

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."
—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe
Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

“I found this read so informative. It gave me a lot of historical context for the strikes we’re seeing in journalism and publishing now (2023). A teacher once taught me, 'History repeats itself, just not with the same intensity and frequency,' and that rang true as I read this book. We, the publishing industry, have a lot to learn from other... Read more

Mothercoin

The Stories of Immigrant Nannies

By: Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

A historical and cultural exploration of the devastating consequences of undervaluing those who conduct the “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping

In taking up the mothercoin—the work of mothering, divorced from family and exchanged in a global market—immigrant nannies embody a grave contradiction: while “women’s work” of childcare and... Read more

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

“This is an important and beautifully written book examining the links and common elements between the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany. Highly recommended. Read more

Mill Town

Reckoning with What Remains

By: Kerri Arsenault
Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

“This is a beautifully written story about two small towns in Maine and the paper mill that is the foundation of their economy. It tells the much bigger story of the sacrifice of the workers, and the injustices to them and the environment. Arsenault masters the nuances of family and history, which pulled me into the story in the first few pages... Read more

Dirty Work

Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

By: Eyal Press
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who... Read more

The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

By: Katharina Pistor
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this... Read more

Beaten Down, Worked Up

The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

By: Steven Greenhouse
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review

We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become a common feature of our nation’s landscape. Behind these trends... Read more