Length51m
About this audiobook
**Hands for Hire** is a grounded, deeply human story about work, dignity, and the quiet courage it takes to push back against being treated as disposable. Through the eyes of Jonah Adeyemi, a young worker navigating warehouses, factories, and night shifts, the book explores the lived reality of cheap labor not as an abstract idea, but as aching hands, delayed wages, fear, and survival. As Jonah and his coworkers slowly learn to count what is taken from them, speak together, and say no when it matters, the story reveals how solidarity is built through patience, risk, and care. Honest, intimate, and unsentimental, this audiobook captures how change rarely arrives loudly, but grows through small, stubborn acts of resistance that reshape both work and self.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreGeneral Fiction, Poetry
Length51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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