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Autoworkers Under The Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream by Greg Shotwell 9781608461424
RRP: £19.99£11.82In an industry under attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American dream.Book InformationISBN 9781608461424Author Greg ShotwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket BooksWeight(grams) 357g -
Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!: y 20 mitos mas sobre la immigracion (Spanish) by Aviva Chomsky 9781608461011
RRP: £19.99£13.56A timely and accessible guide which debunks the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's heated immigration debate, written by one of the leading and longest-running human rights activists. Claims that immigrants take jobs away from nationals, are a... -
The Civil Wars In U.s Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Steve Early 9781608460991
RRP: £21.99£14.83From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, American labour has been gripped by a devastating civil war that has resulted in 30 years of decline. With the economic crises putting more pressure on organised labour than ever and prompting a... -
Striking To Survive: Factory Relocations and Workers Resistance in China's Pearl River Delta by Fan Shigang 9781608469093
RRP: £16.99£11.67In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China's southeastern coast, countless so-called 'migrant workers' or 'peasant workers' from interior... -
Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940: The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens by Frank Caestecker 9781571819864
RRP: £107.00£86.57Belgium has a unique place in the history of migration in that it was the first among industrialized nations in Continental Europe to develop into an immigrant society. In the nineteenth century Italians, Jews, Poles, Czechs, and North Africans settled... -
A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany by Rachel Alsop 9781571817716
RRP: £23.95£19.49German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching... -
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 9781571817648
RRP: £99.00£79.83European 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 Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium by George Ross 9781571811684
RRP: £31.95£26.40European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in... -
Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston by Aviva Chomsky 9781642593952
RRP: £52.00£34.69Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon... -
The Package King: A Rank and File History of Ups by Joe Allen 9781642592498
RRP: £48.00£32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642592498Author Joe AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books -
Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages by Claudia Goldin 9780226532509
RRP: £112.00£107.01Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so?... -
A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany by Rachel Alsop 9781571819659
RRP: £99.00£79.83German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching... -
The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium by George Ross 9781571811677
RRP: £107.00£86.57European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in... -
Trade Unions in the New Society by Harold J. Laski 9781032058320
RRP: £28.99£25.09First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world. Harold J. Laski contrasts their function in a capitalist or socialist society with what it... -
A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism by Lisa Phillips 9780252037320
RRP: £47.00£37.50Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail... -
Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries: Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives by Helge Hvid 9780367663841
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. Unlike in many other countries, global competition has not created inequality, uncertainty, long working hours, standardization and restrictive managerial control. The main reason for this lies in... -
Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition by Kathleen Barker 9780801433696
RRP: £116.00£93.80The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as... -
The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States by Marie Gottschalk 9780801437458
RRP: £116.00£93.40Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that... -
Malled by Caitlin Kelly 9781591845430
RRP: £21.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845430Author Caitlin KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism by Betsy Wood 9780252043444
RRP: £99.00£78.92Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of... -
StartUp 7, Workbook by Ken Beatty 9780135177631
£24.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135177631Author Ken BeattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson... -
Shifting Categories of Work: Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities by Liza Herzog 9781032376622
RRP: £35.99£31.69What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects? We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories that we use to... -
The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley 9781501764813
RRP: £116.00£93.40In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people-not only... -
Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990 by Mark A Fossett 9780367166885
RRP: £39.99£35.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367166885Author Mark A FossettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis? by Robert L. Clark 9781848447585
£95.61While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health insurance plans... -
Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States by Ola Bergstrom 9781843760337
£110.61Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal... -
Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe by Gabriel Fagan 9781843764328
£110.61Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe addresses the role played by institutions in European wage formation with a focus on EMU and institutional change in labour markets. Under this general heading there are three broad but distinct themes... -
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives by Daniel Berliner 9781783470358
£95.61The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key... -
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager 9780226644837
RRP: £44.00£42.27Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding... -
Department of Justice: Slavery, Peonage, and Involuntary Servitude by Antoinette Harrell 9780967727998
RRP: £13.95£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967727998Author Antoinette HarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Antoinette HarrellPublisher Antoinette HarrellWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 9781604864823
RRP: £14.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864823Author Elizabeth Gurley FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 132g -
The Case for a Maximum Wage by Sam Pizzigati 9781509524914
RRP: £35.00£30.87Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more... -
Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives by Mark Harcourt 9780719069796
RRP: £25.00£17.92Available for the first time in paperback, this book explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. The crisis facing established democratic institutions in the advanced societies has been widely noted. In response, there... -
All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King 9780807086025
RRP: £18.99£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807086025Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Cartography Of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt 9781849351386
RRP: £8.95£6.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351386Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 163g -
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 by Howard Zinn 9781608462599
RRP: £19.99£13.08Howard Zinn has illuminated American history like none other. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University, he wrote more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States. He was also a known anti-war... -
The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of the Service Economy by Anthony Lloyd 9781529204032
RRP: £28.99£22.29This is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from... -
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger 9780060930653
RRP: £14.99£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930653Author Craig KielburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won by Susan L. Marquis
RRP: £29.99£22.27I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses... -
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
RRP: £24.99£17.12This revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith's accessible, critical history of the US labour movement examines the hidden radical history of workers' resistance from the nineteenth century to the present.Book InformationISBN 9781608469178Author...