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The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: £12.99£9.09'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
Total Ethics Fashion: People, our fellow animals and the planet before profit by Emma Hakansson 9781761450259
RRP: £8.99£6.22Total Ethics Fashion: People, our fellow animals and the planet before profit is a deep dive into supply chain issues associated with fashion around the globe. 'Sustainable' and 'ethical' fashion have a problem: they've become marketing buzzwords rather... -
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality by Marcos González Hernando
RRP: £19.99£15.76Media 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... -
A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA by Max Lobe 9781913109011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.20On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when, at a pit stop, Simon goes wandering in... -
The Bending Cross: A biography of Eugene V. Debs by Ray Ginger 9781931859400
RRP: £24.99£19.20This moving biography presents the definitive story of the life of and legacy of the most eloquent spokesperson and leader of the US labour and socialist movements. Eugene Debs was a railway organiser and socialist. He ran for president five times, once... -
The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality by Celine Bessiere
RRP: £33.95£27.41Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing how legal professionals-wittingly and unwittingly-help rich families and men maintain their privilege.In many countries, property... -
Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology by Mike Cooley 9780851248493
RRP: £11.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248493Author Mike CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) by Nicholas Eberstadt
RRP: £12.99£9.50Nicholas Eberstadt's landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and "full or near full employment" conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet,... -
Lace Makers of Narsapur by Maria Mies 9781742198149
RRP: £19.95£12.84The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not... -
Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity by Michael C. Jackson
RRP: £64.95£57.12From the winner of the INCOSE Pioneer Award 2022The world has become increasingly networked and unpredictable. Decision makers at all levels are required to manage the consequences of complexity every day. They must deal with problems that arise... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
RRP: £25.00£22.03The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: £17.00£9.71Apologies 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 *... -
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
RRP: £20.99£14.19Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the... -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail... -
Lessons in Organising: What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers by Gawain Little
RRP: £14.99£9.80'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... -
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough... -
The Night Cleaner by Florence Aubenas 9780745651996
RRP: £7.99£5.60The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's mostaccomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into the... -
Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement by Cassidy R. Sugimoto
RRP: £29.95£23.66The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards-publications, citations, funding-systematically obstructs women's career advancement.If current trends continue, women and... -
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel 9781565843424
RRP: £24.99£17.39Studs 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... -
Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge and Combat Workplace Bullying - Overcoming the Silence and Denial by Which Abuse Thrives by Tim Field 9780952912101
RRP: £16.95£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952912101Author Tim FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Success UnlimitedPublisher Success UnlimitedWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 133mm * 203mm... -
Pioneer: The Autobiography of Gordon Jago by Gordon Jago 9781785318573
RRP: £19.99£15.42Few people have made such an impact on so many areas of football, in so many parts of the world, as Gordon Jago. Jago - a tall, thoughtful centre-half with Charlton Athletic - made his biggest impression as a manager. In England, he created the... -
The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey by Helga Grebing 9780907582311
£39.11Helga GrebingSet against the background of the economic, social and political conditions in Germany from 1890 to the end of the Nazi era, this classic study traces the emergence and development of the German labour movement.Book InformationISBN... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
RRP: £9.99£6.80***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old... -
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers... -
Electricity at work: safe working practices by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive
£18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717665815Author Great Britain: Health and Safety ExecutiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 33Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Class Against Class by Sean Matgamna 9781909639263
RRP: £8.99£7.46Apologies 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 -
Brain Rules for Work: the science of thinking smarter in the office and at home by John Medina
RRP: £16.99£11.58What makes an engaging presentation or a useful meeting? How can companies motivate and inspire people to do their best at work? Who are the most effective leaders? Bestselling author and scientist Dr John Medina uses peer-reviewed research to answer... -
Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe by James F. Hollifield 9780674444232
RRP: £79.95£63.38This timely study of the recent migration tides explores the political and economic factors that have influenced the rise of immigration in postwar Europe and the United States. It seeks to explain immigration in terms of the globalization of labor... -
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
RRP: £15.99£14.87The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC... -
Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy by Vicky Pryce
RRP: £17.99£16.14An urgent call to reform capitalism so that it stops failing women. Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky... -
Pay Up: Reimagining Motherhood in America by Reshma Saujani
RRP: £27.00£15.91Apologies 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)... -
The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention by Bernard Mayer
RRP: £52.00£45.60The Dynamics of Conflict When it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer's The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions by Eve Livingston
RRP: £9.99£6.80With 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,... -
Chainsaw Operator's Manual: Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-cutting Techniques by ForestWorks
£22.33The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate... -
Making Sense of Construction Improvement by Stuart Green 9781032301334
RRP: £44.99£39.68Making Sense of Construction Improvement provides a critical evaluation of the construction improvement debate from the end of the Second World War through to the modern era. The book offers unique insights into the way the UK construction sector is... -
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
RRP: £10.99£7.77A 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 Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning by Robert Skidelsky 9780241244616
RRP: £25.00£18.02A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the... -
Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal University by Peter Fleming 9780745341064
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While... -
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: £15.00£11.49Apologies 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 -
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
RRP: £24.99£20.01In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal...