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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by H. James Wilson 9781633693869
RRP: $39.45$28.39AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready?Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that... -
Always Red by Len McCluskey
RRP: $29.14$20.70Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of... -
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993: A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries by Rinus Penninx 9781571817860
RRP: $47.94$38.73European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in socio-economic decision-making processes. Consequently they also play an... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman 9781447336068
RRP: $34.29$27.03Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show... -
Lessons in Organising: What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers by Gawain Little
RRP: $25.71$16.81'An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance' - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: $29.16$17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117469Author Matthew B. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel 9781565843424
RRP: $42.87$27.55Studs Terkel's classic oral history of Americans' working lives-and the inspiration for Barack Obama's new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century"Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how... -
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer
RRP: $22.21$14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176931Author Albert MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Will the gig economy prevail? by Colin Crouch 9781509532445
RRP: $17.14$15.35Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed'. This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of... -
The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Class Against Class by Sean Matgamna 9781909639263
RRP: $15.42$12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639263Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 384g -
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption by Phillip Brown
RRP: $48.01$40.50Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?,... -
I.w.w. Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book by PM Press
RRP: $10.27$7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869507Author PM PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 47g -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: $60.04$52.32Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power by Tom Bower
RRP: $22.28$14.55The Sunday Times Bestseller 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday 'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph ... -
Why You Should Be a Trade Unionist by Len McCluskey
RRP: $13.71$9.28In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and... -
Revolutionary Affinities: Towards a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity by Michael Lowy
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639697Author Michael LowyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
RRP: $18.85$13.33A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph'Utterly compelling ... one of the most important intellectuals in the... -
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
RRP: $22.28$14.68Intelligent, nuanced and wide-ranging, this is the essential handbook for understanding the chaotic political times in which we live.In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, or... -
Pay Up: Reimagining Motherhood in America by Reshma Saujani
RRP: $46.31$28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982191573Author Reshma SaujaniFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)... -
How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day by Paul Cockshott
RRP: $42.88$34.07A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions by Eve Livingston
RRP: $17.14$11.66With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway? The government constantly attacks unions,... -
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis
RRP: $22.28$14.55Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: $25.71$18.78London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's... -
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing 9780241475911
RRP: $42.88$30.22'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political... -
Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective by Joerg Nowak 9781786604040
RRP: $72.04$68.29While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. The collection of essays... -
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux by Tom Fletcher 9780008447809
RRP: $34.31$24.51'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way... -
No Logo (Collins Modern Classics) by Naomi Klein
RRP: $18.85$12.44Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. When No Logo was first... -
In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
RRP: $22.28$14.80Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment... -
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore 9781432839031
$63.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432839031Author Kate MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 631Imprint Thorndike Press Large PrintPublisher Thorndike Press Large PrintWeight(grams)... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: $25.64$21.49The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies... -
The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries by James Reason 9780754674023
RRP: $82.32$72.40This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns... -
Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 by Fabrice Bensimon 9780198835844
RRP: $142.37$129.23Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and... -
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives by Jonathan Malesic
RRP: $41.17$31.63Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has... -
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes
RRP: $17.14$11.39There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversations on picket lines, in community centres, and in union... -
The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve it by David Weil
RRP: $39.37$30.86For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible... -
A Seventh Man by John Berger
RRP: $22.28$18.66Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a... -
Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office by Jeremy Myerson 9781789146684
RRP: $29.14$21.06Over the past hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behaviour of our organizations and the everyday movements of millions of people. In 2020, however, the... -
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry by Michael G. Kraft
RRP: $51.46$34.10The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of... -
Workers and Capital by Mario Tronti
RRP: $34.29$28.99Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In the decade... -
Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing: Building an Empowering Culture in a Post-COVID World by Tim Marsh
RRP: $56.59$50.02The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring, and empowering workplace culture. It stresses the vital importance of...