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Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management by CCPS
RRP: £105.95£92.07The 2nd edition provides an update of information since the publication of the first edition including best practices for managing process safety developed by industry as well as incorporate the additional process safety elements. In addition the book... -
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now by Guy Standing
£17.13Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of... -
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn... -
A Definitive Guide to Behavioural Safety by Tim Marsh
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused. 'If you can walk on hot coals, you can do anything - so be safe' needs to be dismissed out of hand, but also more advanced... -
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives by Jonathan Malesic
RRP: £24.00£18.44Going 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: £9.99£6.64There 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: £22.95£17.99For 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: £12.99£10.88Why 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... -
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry by Michael G. Kraft
RRP: £30.00£19.88The 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... -
Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike by Mark Metcalf
RRP: £14.99£12.68In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds... -
Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies by Arne L. Kalleberg 9781509506507
RRP: £17.99£16.04Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L. Kalleberg examines the impact of the... -
Rebel Footprints - Second Edition: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History by David Rosenberg
RRP: £14.99£9.80The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David... -
Leptospirosis: are you at risk? (pack of 15 pocket cards) by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive
£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717664559Author Great Britain: Health and Safety ExecutiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 7Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
First aid at work: The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, guidance on regulations by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive 9780717665600
£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717665600Author HSEFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work by Ian Allinson
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Covid, climate and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace... -
International Human Resource Management by Peter Dowling 9781473773790
£55.69The eighth edition of this market-leading text explores the core issues in international human resource management from a practical and academic perspective. Written by a team of internationally recognised experts, International Human Resource Management... -
Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die by Anthony Peake 9781839401077
RRP: £11.99£7.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839401077Author Anthony PeakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey 9780691172798
RRP: £25.00£20.18"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis by Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 9780470343852
RRP: £96.95£84.42The book is a guide for Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) practitioners. It explains the onion skin model and in particular, how it relates to the use of LOPA and the need for non-safety instrumented independent protection layers. It provides... -
Tangerine Dream in the 1970s by Stephen Palmer 9781789521610
RRP: £14.99£10.95Long, unfurling tracks; huge stacks of gear; music like that of no other group; trailblazing live gigs based on improvisation. This is the legacy of Tangerine Dream, the legendary German group piloted by Edgar Froese, whose impact on music, and... -
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs by Mr. Paul Willis
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: £12.99£10.84In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a... -
Education, Training and the Global Economy by David Ashton 9781852789732
RRP: £34.95£31.69Across the industrialized and developing world, education and training are regarded as paramount to economic growth, but this view is rarely questioned or analysed. This major book is an in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of the link between... -
Work and Organizational Psychology: An Introduction with Attitude by Christine Doyle
RRP: £47.99£42.21In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes,... -
Tom Petty: Every Album, Every Song by Richard James 9781789521283
RRP: £14.99£12.30"At the Hollywood Bowl, California on 25 September 2017 the final song of the final concert of the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary tour was, almost inevitably, 'American Girl', the classic from the bands 1976 debut album. Seven days later... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
RRP: £14.99£11.87"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael Barnhart
RRP: £29.99£25.99The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of... -
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman 9781641607193
RRP: £26.95£20.73An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art... -
Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice by John W. Budd 9780801472602
RRP: £23.99£20.41John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship... -
Staithes: A Place Apart by Gloria Wilson 9781907206634
RRP: £20.00£16.43In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves. She writes: In this... -
The Value of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain by Jenny Rodriguez 9781529236958
RRP: £27.99£21.57Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work. Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
RRP: £18.99£15.03In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and... -
Labour Regimes and Global Production by Dr Elena Baglioni 9781788216791
RRP: £29.99£28.50There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global... -
Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
RRP: £19.95£16.04First published in 1974, this text is written in a direct way by Harry Braverman, whose years spent as an industrial worker gave him insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology. Here, he... -
Why Don't Astronauts Burp?: Questions and Answers About Space by Anne Rooney 9781839407802
RRP: £4.99£3.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839407802Author Anne RooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan 9780306830921
RRP: £25.00£16.38A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan.Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that... -
Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Anitha Sundari 9781912064861
RRP: £18.00£17.03Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous... -
Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines by Jamie Merisotis 9780795353482
RRP: £16.95£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795353482Author Jamie MerisotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future by Alec Ross 9781787635418
RRP: £20.00£13.50A BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam GrantHuge corporations are acting like nations, global wealth is going to billionaires and ordinary... -
Standing in the Storm: Living with Faith and Cancer by Matt McChlery 9781912726530
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912726530Author Matt McChleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Instant ApostlePublisher Instant ApostleWeight(grams) 130g