All in the Day's Work: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

All in the Day's Work, credited to Ida Tarbell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of All in the Day's Work by Ida Tarbell. Read by Ciufi Galeazzi In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigative journalist. Ms. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 work, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which was a significant factor in the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly. She was a noted writer and lecturer, served on two presidential committees, and is considered by her actions to be an important feminist (although she was critical of the feminist movement). - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Recording facts

• Recording title: All in the Day's Work
• Author credits: Ida Tarbell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 15:19:36

Catalogue topics

• autobiography
• journalism

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1: My Start in Life — 42:14
2. 02 - Chapter 2: I Decide to be a Biologist — 43:14
3. 03 - Chapter 3: A Coeducational College of the Eighties — 27:56
4. 04 - Chapter 4: A Start and a Retreat — 34:02
5. 05 - Chapter 5: A Fresh Start - A Second Retreat — 57:09
6. 06 - Chapter 6: I Fall in Love, Part 1 — 37:26
7. 07 - Chapter 6: I Fall in Love, Part 2 — 42:18
8. 08 - Chapter 7: A First Book - On Nothing Certain a Year — 51:18
9. 09 - Chapter 8: The Napoleon Movement of the Nineties — 31:11
10. 10 - Chapter 9: Good-Bye to France — 39:42
11. 11 - Chapter 10: Rediscovering My Country — 51:10
12. 12 - Chapter 11: A Captain of Industry Seeks My Acquaintance, Part 1 — 38:08
13. 13 - Chapter 11: A Captain of Industry Seeks My Acquaintance, Part 2 — 26:53
14. 14 - Chapter 12: Muckraker or Historian? — 51:18
15. 15 - Chapter 13: Off With the Old - On With the New, Part 1 — 29:48
16. 16 - Chapter 13: Off With the Old - On With the New, Part 2 — 29:24
17. 17 - Chapter 14: The Golden Rule in Industry — 47:51
18. 18 - Chapter 15: A New Profession — 40:32
19. 19 - Chapter 16: Women and War — 36:18
20. 20 - Chapter 17: After the Armistice — 50:13
21. 21 - Chapter 18: Gambling with Security, Part 1 — 27:45
22. 22 - Chapter 18: Gambling with Security, Part 2 — 31:50
23. 23 - Chapter 19: Looking Over the Country — 28:41
24. 24 - Chapter 20: Nothing New Under the Sun — 23:15

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