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Resist Amazon
To coincide with the release of Danny Caine's phenomenal How to Resist Amazon and Why, we outfitted the Orange Room with some of our favorite books about what Big Tech is building, the ramifications on our lives, and what shopping independent saves (like quirky local bookstores).
How to Resist Amazon and Why
The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
By: Danny Caine
Narrated by: Danny Caine
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“As someone looking to enter into a market that Amazon dominates, I found this book so incredibly eye-opening as it pertains to their business practices and strategies. It got me all fired up to do my part to be local, personal, and independent! Read more
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Fulfillment
Winning and Losing in One-Click America
By: Alec MacGillis
Narrated by: Danny Gavigan
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while... Read more
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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
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The System
Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
By: Robert B. Reich
Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
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 system is no longer working, but what is the core... Read more
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On the Clock
What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
By: Emily Guendelsberger
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There,... Read more
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Don't Be Evil
How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
By: Rana Foroohar
Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Evening Standard
“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as... Read more
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The Warehouse
A Novel
By: Rob Hart
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp & Karissa Vacker
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This is one of those way-too-close-to-reality-for-comfort books. In a very near future, local economies have been all but obliterated by Cloud, a company that you'll recognize as bearing a striking resemblance to a contemporary online mega-retailer. Jobs at this company are highly sought after. Employees live where they work, in MotherCloud... Read more
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Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
By: Jonathan Taplin
Narrated by: Jonathan Taplin
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“With the fallout from Cambridge Analytica still fresh in our minds, and the sense that our collective slide into tech dystopia is moving apace, Move Fast and Break Things — which is out now in paperback — provides an excellent primer on how we got to where we are, and why it didn’t have to be this way. Come for the power-hungry data collectors... Read more
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Qualityland
By: Marc-Uwe Kling
Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated... Read more
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Goliath
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Must-Read American History
By: Matt Stoller
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.
Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one... Read more
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Break 'Em Up
Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
By: Zephyr Teachout
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey & Zephyr Teachout
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
"[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 almost every aspect of American life, and you will... Read more
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The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
By: Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.
As the... Read more
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Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.
Former New York Times columnist... Read more
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The Four
The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
By: Scott Galloway
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.
For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering... Read more
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 24 hours 16 minutes
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the... Read more
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A Collective Bargain
Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
By: Jane McAlevey
Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness... Read more
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The Testaments
The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal & Margaret Atwood
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on... Read more
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The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE... Read more
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