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Rights And Wrongs Of Children's Work by M. F. C. Bourdillon 9780813548890
RRP: £33.00£25.95Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. This groundbreaking book considers... -
Designing Buildings for People: Sustainable liveable architecture by Derek Clements-Croome 9781785007095
RRP: £25.00£20.30Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve... -
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now Prof. Guy Standing (SOAS, UK) 9780755600632
£17.41Today 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... -
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... -
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory: Alienation and Power by Stephen C. McGuinn 9780739194355
RRP: £43.00£37.78Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison... -
The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries by James Reason 9780754674023
RRP: £48.99£43.39This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns... -
Split: Class Divides Uncovered Ben Tippet 9780745340210
RRP: £9.99£7.00How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? Split makes sense of... -
Gender, Inequality, and Wages by Francine D. Blau 9780198779971
£41.14In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years, although there have been some important changes over time. This volume of collected papers contains extensive research on progress made... -
Changed Into His Likeness: A Biblical Theology Of Personal Transformation by J Gary Millar 9781789741810
RRP: £16.99£12.94When it comes to the Christian life, what exactly can we expect with regard to personal transformation? Gary Millar addresses this most basic question. He explores the nature of gospel-shaped change, exposing the dangers of both promising too much... -
Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris
RRP: £13.99£9.30A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.Millennials have been called lazy, entitled,... -
The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace by Ifeoma Ajunwa
RRP: £26.99£23.20The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The... -
A Supported Employment Workbook: Using Individual Profiling and Job Matching by Steve Leach
RRP: £35.00£33.49A practical tool for all job developers, this workbook presents strategies based on real situations and includes example exercises throughout. It draws on Steve Leach's thirteen years' practical experience in supported employment and is based on the... -
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel 9781565843424
RRP: £24.99£17.52Studs 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... -
Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World by Cris Shore 9780745336459
RRP: £19.99£16.00All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries... -
Organizational Accidents Revisited James Reason 9781472447685
RRP: £47.99£41.48Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an 'organizational accident'. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp... -
Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism by Intan Suwandi 9781583677810
RRP: £20.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583677810Author Intan SuwandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Making Sense of Construction Improvement by Stuart Green 9781032301334
RRP: £44.99£39.99Making 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... -
Wonderland by Beth Steel 9780571321377
RRP: £10.99£7.54The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour.London,... -
Firsts, Lasts and Onlys: Tennis: A Truly Wonderful Collection of Tennis Trivia by Paul Donnelley 9781785316364
RRP: £9.99£7.21Firsts, Lasts & Onlys is a tennis fan's delight, chock-full of astonishing events, time-honoured anecdotes and extraordinary facts. The book takes a light-hearted but authoritative look at every major tennis tournament in the world, including the... -
Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation by Darrell M. West 9780815737865
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737865Author Darrell M. WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower 9780691181240
RRP: £25.00£19.89A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy as we thinkDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine-it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage-the... -
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... -
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams 9781479814312
RRP: £15.99£14.55Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering... -
Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery: In-depth by Laura Shenton 9781912782819
RRP: £14.99£10.95For Jethro Tull, 1975 would prove to be a fascinating year. With Aqualung and Thick As A Brick behind them, and with A Passion Play and War Child having been met with a mixed critical reception, their next album, Minstrel In The Gallery is the product of... -
Pay Up: Reimagining Motherhood in America by Reshma Saujani
RRP: £27.00£16.17Apologies 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)... -
Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role by Olivier Blanchard
RRP: £32.00£19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045612Author Olivier BlanchardFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy by Robert E. Wright 9783319489674
RRP: £54.99£38.38This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its... -
Predator Ecology: Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response by John P. DeLong 9780192895509
£97.27Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems. They are typically quantified using the functional response - the relationship between a predator's... -
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy by Jeremias Prassl 9780198797029
RRP: £22.49£19.16WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of... -
Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology by Mike Cooley 9780851248493
RRP: £11.99£10.25Apologies 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 -
The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy by Immanuel Ness 9780367752910
RRP: £43.99£38.44Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However, as platform and automated service work has grown, there remains a chasm in understanding the key aspects of... -
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes by Philip Brown 9780199926442
RRP: £28.49£18.09For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive... -
Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler
RRP: £15.99£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900361Author Heike GeisslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Work of the Future by David H. Autor
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046367Author David H. AutorFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Rebuilding Working Relationships by Nora Doherty 9780749450199
RRP: £29.99£25.22The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution examines the nature, process, uses and skills for employing and using mediation. The authors examine what mediation is and how it can be successfully applied to resolve issues, by... -
Thriving in Academic Leadership Sharmila Pixy Ferris (William Paterson University, USA) 9781837533039
RRP: £16.99£12.55Demands on institutions of higher education are constantly growing, and recent years, including the Coronavirus pandemic, have complicated academic life in unprecedented ways. The impact of complex and dynamic outside forces, from the pandemic to the... -
Why Don't Astronauts Burp?: Questions and Answers About Space by Anne Rooney 9781839407802
RRP: £4.99£3.90Apologies 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 Night Cleaner Florence Aubenas (Editions du Seuil) 9780745651996
RRP: £7.99£5.78The 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... -
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom: Theory and Practice Carol Lethaby 9781913414894
£48.39Do you want to learn more about the evidence, or lack of evidence, supporting common teaching strategies and procedures? An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in English Language Learning compiles the evidence in one place for you, rather than... -
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
RRP: £24.99£22.01This 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...