Working 9 to 5
A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
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Ellen Cassedy
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9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.
Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages.
They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed lawsuits and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in back pay and helped make sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination illegal.
The women office workers who rose up to win rights and respect on the job transformed workplaces throughout America. And along the way came Dolly Parton’s toe-tapping song and a hit movie inspired by their work.
Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.
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It was the 1960s - a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the “Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the “Mad Men” office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil rights and the “Swinging Sixties.” Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller all started there as well. It was a top-notch job - for a girl - at an exciting place. But it was a dead end.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book read by Ms Robot.
- De careuther en 09-17-16
De: Lynn Povich
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
- A Biography
- De: Miriam Pawel
- Narrado por: Jackson Gutierrez
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cesar Chávez
- De Ed en 09-10-18
De: Miriam Pawel
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion
- How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
- De: Nell McShane Wulfhart
- Narrado por: Bonnie Friel
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of glamorous jet-setting, the chance to see the world, and an alternative to traditional occupations like homemaking, nursing, and teaching.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly true!!
- De Kay en 08-13-23
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The Woman Behind the New Deal
- The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
- De: Kirstin Downey
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 179
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the 20th century. Based on extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins' family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted public servant with a passionate personal life, a mother who changed the landscape of American business and society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Absorbing Biography
- De Jean en 08-16-17
De: Kirstin Downey
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When Everything Changed
- The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
- De: Gail Collins
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 15 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
An enthralling blend of oral history and Gail Collins' keen research, this definitive look at 50 years of feminist progress shimmers with the amusing, down-to-earth liberal tone that is this New York Times columnist's trademark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book I have been waiting for!
- De A Teacher en 09-10-10
De: Gail Collins
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All Things Possible
- Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
- De: Andrew M. Cuomo
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In this full and frank memoir - a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Love This Book AND the Guvnor (Governor, I Know)
- De Igi M. en 09-02-20
De: Andrew M. Cuomo
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Mike Bloomberg
- Money, Power, Politics
- De: Joyce Purnick
- Narrado por: Mark Moseley
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Michael Bloomberg is not only New York City's 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known and admired, few people know the man behind the carefully crafted public persona.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the most captivating, but a decent summary
- De liz w en 03-06-17
De: Joyce Purnick
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Radical
- Fighting to Put Students First
- De: Michelle Rhee
- Narrado por: Shannon McManus
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Part memoir, part manifesto, Radical is this fearless advocate's incisive, intensely personal call-to-arms. Rhee combines the story of her own extraordinary experience with dozens of compelling examples from schools she's worked in and studied-from students from unspeakable home lives who have thrived in the classroom to teachers whose radical methods have produced unprecedented leaps in achievement. Radical chronicles Rhee's awakening to the potential of every child, her rage at the special interests blocking badly-needed change, and her recognition that it will take a grassroots movement to create outstanding public schools.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read after seeing Waiting for Superman
- De Marie en 04-10-13
De: Michelle Rhee
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The Real Romney
- De: Michael Kranish, Scott Helman
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Mitt Romney has masterfully positioned himself as the front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Even though he's become a household name, the former Massachusetts governor remains an enigma to many in America, his character and core convictions elusive, his record little known. Who is the man behind that high-wattage smile? In this definitive, unflinching biography by Boston Globe investigative reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, listeners will finally discover the real Romney.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to conceal resentment and feign objectvity...
- De I F Leger en 02-10-12
De: Michael Kranish, y otros
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The Prize
- Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
- De: Dale Russakoff
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched - Provides Good Answers
- De Denyse en 01-11-16
De: Dale Russakoff
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Nothing to Fear
- FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history - the tense, feverish first 100 days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important contribution
- De R.S. en 03-05-09
De: Adam Cohen
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Neither Snow nor Rain
- A History of the United States Postal Service
- De: Devin Leonard
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Postal Service, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history. The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, 40 percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Woa!, the post office's history is America
- De anon en 12-06-16
De: Devin Leonard
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Class Warfare
- Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 16 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unions are Evil
- De Elton en 09-16-11
De: Steven Brill
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Living History
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrado por: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 465
You've probably heard clips from Senator Clinton's interview with Barbara Walters. But now you can listen to her full account of her years in the White House. Hillary Clinton vividly describes her pain over her husband's betrayal with Monica Lewinky saying that former President Bill Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted the nature of it to a grand jury.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dare To Read - She Will Dare To Compete in 2008
- De Michael en 06-17-03
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The Gay Revolution
- The Story of the Struggle
- De: Lillian Faderman
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 29 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding book.
- De David Farley en 10-21-15
De: Lillian Faderman
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 40 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,658
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,249
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,239
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of all Biographies
- De David C. Daggett en 12-14-13
De: Robert A. Caro
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Trailblazer
- A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
- De: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to finish
- De SL41639 en 04-06-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Working 9 to 5
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-23
I had no idea!
The history of this Women's movement is fascinating. Can't believe that the struggle for respect in the workplace is still so prevalent. Hillary gives 'Ellen' a strong voice & a great performance!
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