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The Guy in the Green Truck: John St. Amand - A Biography by James N. McCrorie
RRP: £18.95£15.63Spotlighting one man's choice to abandon security for chance, this biographical memoir relates the inspiring story of John St. Amand, who left a promising career as a sociologist--along with handsome health and retirement benefits--to take on the... -
Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace by Jonathan D. Karmel
RRP: £24.99£21.67In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family... -
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work by James A. Chamberlain
RRP: £35.00£30.74This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and... -
Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries Frances C. Galt (Newcastle University) 9781529206296
RRP: £79.99£60.86The first book to examine archival material which has not been analysed by other academics, specifically Committee on Equality meeting minutes and ephemera, as well as new oral history interviews conducted by the author with ACTT women activists.About... -
Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism by John Krinsky
RRP: £27.00£26.47One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments was his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the... -
Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation by Andrew Gamble
RRP: £90.00£63.91With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and... -
Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering by Cameron Lynne Macdonald
RRP: £80.00£61.89"Shadow Mothers" shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. Cameron... -
What a Woman Ought to be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era by Stephanie J. Shaw
RRP: £37.00£35.77This work explores the inner world of American Black professional women during the Jim Crow era. It is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their... -
Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago 1880-1930 by Joanne Meyerowitz
RRP: £30.00£29.25Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined... -
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers by Andrew Ross
£22.56Are you aware that the T-shirt or running shoes you're wearing may have been produced by a 13-year-old children working 14-hour days for 30 cents an hour? The clothing sweatshop, as a recent string of media exposes has revealed, is back in business... -
Retiring Women: Work and Post-work Transitions Philip Taylor 9781783477159
£95.61This book considers what work and retirement mean for older women, how each is experienced, and how working fits with other facets of their lives. The authors draw on data collected from women themselves, employers, industry stakeholders and older... -
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California by Daniel J. O'Connell
RRP: £19.99£17.54A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition... -
Economic Democracy: The Working Class Alternative to Capitalism by Allan Engler
RRP: £18.95£15.63Identifying capitalism as a system of privately owned corporations, this book envisions an alternative, more equitable form of economic organization within a democracy. Challenging the current system, which centralizes power within a small elite, this... -
A Field in Flux: Sixty Years of Industrial Relations by Robert B. McKersie
RRP: £37.00£32.42A Field in Flux chronicles the extraordinary journey of industrial and labor relations expert Robert McKersie. One of the most important industrial relations scholars and leaders of our time, McKersie pioneered the study of labor negotiations, helping to... -
Rights, Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act by James A. Gross
RRP: £43.00£37.50This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment... -
Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future by Associate Professor Tobias Schulze-Cleven
£44.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913447222Author Associate Professor Tobias Schulze-ClevenFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Labor and Employment Research AssociationPublisher Labor... -
Improving Air Safety through Organizational Learning: Consequences of a Technology-led Model by Jose Sanchez-Alarcos Ballesteros
RRP: £125.00£107.86The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of aviation safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model at work. However, the pace of... -
The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS by Joe Allen
RRP: £19.99£12.55If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies-United Parcel Service (UPS). The company that we see everyday but know so... -
Low Pay, High Profile: The GLobal Push for Fair Labor by Andrew Ross
RRP: £60.00£56.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565849198Author Andrew RossFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 657g -
Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada by Stephanie Ross
RRP: £17.95£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552667873Author Stephanie RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador by Erynn Masi de Casanova
RRP: £23.99£20.84What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova's case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador's pioneer domestic workers' organization, examines... -
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism by Daniel E. Bender
RRP: £20.99£18.37Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors,... -
Work Place Sabotage by Professor Gerald Mars
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2001. The examples cited in this study of sabotage in the working environment range from sophisticated tricks played in Western factories to natural reactions to inferior or unhealthy working practices in, for example,... -
Disability Management and Workplace Integration: International Research Findings by Henry G. Harder
RRP: £53.99£46.87Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the... -
Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India Sobin George 9781138201194
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors, and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing... -
Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents by James Rinehart
RRP: £28.99£24.96This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired... -
Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era by Stephen J. Silvia
RRP: £28.99£24.96Since the onset of the Great Recession, Germany's economy has been praised for its superior performance, which has been reminiscent of the "economic miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s. Such acclaim is surprising because Germany's economic institutions were... -
Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization by Kevin Gray
RRP: £43.99£38.44One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea's transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal... -
The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories by Chris King-chi Chan
RRP: £43.99£38.44China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are... -
We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction by Susan Eisenberg
RRP: £19.99£17.54Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for... -
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces by Jason Foster
RRP: £23.99£20.84This textbook provides workers and students with an introduction to effective injury prevention. It pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety... -
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Ruth O'Brien 9780226616605
RRP: £30.00£29.25This intellectual history of disability policy in the workplace from World War II to the 21st century, explains why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been so resistant to accommodating the disabled in the... -
Labor and the Course of American Democracy: US History in Latin American Perspective by Charles Bergquist
£17.48At the start of the 18th century, the richest regions in the Americas lay south of New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies of North America. By the end of the 20th century, this economic geography has been definitively, perhaps irrevocably, reversed... -
Dependent Self-Employment: Theory, Practice and Policy by Colin C. Williams
£89.61Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalized lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams... -
Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work by D. W. Livingstone
RRP: £24.00£19.52Using the global steel industry's status in the 1980s as a context, this study follows its evolution from booming business to a precipitous decline, comparing it to the current changes unfolding within the Canadian steel industry. The chronicle... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry by Ergin Bulut
RRP: £108.00£97.07A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy... -
Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart by Carolina Bank Munoz
RRP: £20.99£18.37A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008... -
Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains by Peter Ikeler
RRP: £22.99£20.01Along with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for $15. Like fast-food workers, retail workers are underpaid, and fewer than 5 percent of them belong to unions. In Hard Sell, Peter... -
Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination by Paul R. D. Lawrie
RRP: £23.99£20.84Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the "Negro problem"... -
Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity: Design and Assessment of Interventions to Enhance Rider Safety by Lars Roessger
RRP: £58.99£51.08It's a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs) use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase further. While providing benefits to the community in the form of reduced traffic congestion and environmental benefits, the...