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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesFT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 and... -
No Ordinary Day: Espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption - the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher by Matt Johnson 9781802471441
RRP: €14.27€8.81SHORTLISTED FOR TWO CRIMECON.UK 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS IN THE 'OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING' AND 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' CATEGORIES Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible political scandal 'An important... -
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis
RRP: €13.08€8.63Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. 'The Looting Machine' is a... -
Safety at street works and road works: a code of practice by Great Britain: Department for Transport 9780115531453
RRP: €13.08€11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780115531453Author Great Britain: Department for TransportPage Count 105Imprint TSOPublisher TSO -
The Underground Sea by John Berger 9781805302995
RRP: €20.22€13.78The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The... -
Pride: The Inspiring True Story Behind the Hit Film by Tim Tate 9781786062918
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote... -
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: €13.08€8.63From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES ... -
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
RRP: €13.08€9.25An incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic changeAre you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow it's never enough?Does your job seep into your evenings and your home life... -
The Enemy within: The Secret War Against the Miners by Seumas Milne
RRP: €34.50€28.64Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners' strike "the enemy within."In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which her government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power... -
Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
RRP: €13.08€8.81For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich... -
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
RRP: €17.84€11.66*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List* Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E... -
Ellen Wilkinson: From Red Suffragist to Government Minister by Paula Bartley
RRP: €20.22€16.42Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time. Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family,... -
Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour by Ralph Miliband 9780850361353
RRP: €23.80€20.78One of the seminal texts of the British New Left Leo Panitch Parliamentary Socialism presents a detailed and scholarly record of the Labour Party's thinking and of its role in British politics from 1900 until the 1960s. A postscript reflects on the... -
Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
RRP: €15.46€10.09Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed 'rise of the... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman
RRP: €11.89€9.51Politicians 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... -
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
RRP: €15.46€10.82Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general and 'classical' economics in particular, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an... -
The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V by Adam Smith
RRP: €15.46€10.82Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes... -
Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety by Todd Conklin 9781409447825
RRP: €57.11€49.75Time-pressed, professionals looking for practical guidance to shape their current or future safety programs should use this book. Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety helps to identify complex potential incidents before... -
Bad News: The Wapping Dispute by John Lang 9780851247960
RRP: €19.04€18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247960Author John LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 3mm -
After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester
RRP: €20.22€13.65Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete - cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on.In this... -
Bread on the Waters: A History of TGWU Education, 1922-2000 by John Fisher 9781905007073
RRP: €17.85€17.09John Fisher describes the immense energy and activity associated with the union's education programme, and shows how it has contributed to the union's development over the years, especially in the sustenance it has given to the TGWU's strong shop steward... -
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and Their Place in History by Louise Raw
€33.94This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East... -
She Said by Jodi Kantor
RRP: €11.89€8.37*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN AND ZOE KAZAN* 'Explosive' Margaret Atwood 'Seismic' Observer 'Brilliant' Nigella Lawson 'Gripping' Jon Ronson A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, METRO AND ELLE BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class Histor
RRP: €22.60€15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638232Author Working Class HistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: €17.85€13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489737Author Farrell DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants by Hsiao-Hung Pai
RRP: €24.98€21.05Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized... -
Striking Back: The Untold Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker by Mary Manning
RRP: €15.46€13.82`Young shopworkers on Henry Street in Dublin, who in 1984 refused to handle the fruits of apartheid, provided me with great hope during my years of imprisonment, and inspiration to millions of South Africans.' Nelson Mandela Dunnes Stores cashier... -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: €101.15€88.67Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain's strike problem... -
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back by Rebecca Giblin
RRP: €13.08€8.71A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now... -
Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant
RRP: €11.89€8.63The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist... -
Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man by W.W.J. Knox
RRP: €32.67€29.16Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain,... -
The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376820Author Paul LafargueFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Battle of Grangemouth: A Worker's Story by Mark Lyon 9781912064007
RRP: €16.66€16.03An account of the assault on the Union at Grangemouth in 2013, when workers were forced to accept cuts in their pay andconditions by the owner's threat of closure. Written by the Grangemouth convenor, The Battle of Grangemouth is a vital storyin trying... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
RRP: €11.89€7.97Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
Chasing the Harvest by Gabriel Thompson
RRP: €17.84€15.36More than a million men, women, and children work in American agriculture, and yet their stories are rarely told, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book... -
Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982 by Andy Clark 9781802077117
€114.97In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labour history. Over a fourteen month period in 1981 and 1982, as Scotland suffered the effects of the... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: €10.70€7.68One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Penguin Classics.Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply... -
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality by Marcos González Hernando
RRP: €23.79€18.75Media attention is often focused on the very richest, the 1%, and their capacity to influence politics and shape society. But they are not the only ones who drive politics, the public conversation and much of the private sector. The focus of this book is... -
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality by Eyal Press
RRP: €13.08€9.25A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Book of the Year 'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work' Michael J. Sandel ... -
The Utopia Of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195186Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 280g