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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... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: £12.99£10.32In 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... -
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman 9780393356625
RRP: £14.99£13.03Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B... -
The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization by Stephen Ackroyd 9780199299249
£49.26The last twenty-five years of the twentieth century was a period of extraordinary change in organizations and the economies of the developed world. This continues today. Such has been the scale and momentum of events that, for some analysts, the only... -
Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
RRP: £19.95£16.39First 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£3.80Apologies 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 -
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£14.30Apologies 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 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... -
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 -
Marx and the Robots: Networked Production, AI, and Human Labour by Florian Butollo 9780745344379
RRP: £19.99£15.76Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a... -
Thriving in Academic Leadership by Sharmila Pixy Ferris 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... -
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis 9780804776493
RRP: £21.99£19.19Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source... -
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... -
Introducing Employment Relations: A Critical Approach by Steve Williams 9780198835530
RRP: £61.99£61.96This new and extensively updated edition of Introducing Employment Relations draws on the most up-to-date research and contemporary examples to help students develop their knowledge, understanding and critical assessment of the main issues relating to... -
Organizational Accidents Revisited by James Reason
RRP: £47.99£41.81Managing 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... -
The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World by Kuba Szreder
RRP: £14.99£11.12The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
£19.65In 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... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman
RRP: £26.50£22.09Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how... -
Split: Class Divides Uncovered by Ben Tippet
RRP: £9.99£6.80How 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... -
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming 9780745334868
RRP: £24.99£19.39There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero
£17.13***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the... -
Jethro Tull Chronicles 1967-79 by Laura Shenton 9781912782932
RRP: £59.99£43.64This mammoth tome chronicles Jethro Tull's career from the outset to the end of the seventies. From the late sixties - a vital period where the group dynamics were established, Chronicles delves extensively into the history. Vintage gig and album... -
The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Giulia Mensitieri 9781350110168
RRP: £23.99£20.94"A powerful expose of Parisian haute couture" - Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the... -
Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism by Intan Suwandi 9781583677810
RRP: £20.00£16.44Apologies 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)... -
Counting by Charlotte King 9781407184074
RRP: £4.99£3.46Support your child at the start of their learning journey with these exciting and engaging activity books. Completely in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage, this early counting book offers the perfect introduction to... -
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence by Jane Holgate
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience,... -
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... -
Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy by Cynthia Estlund 9780195158281
RRP: £92.00£76.60The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships-of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and rifts are mended because they need to be - because the work... -
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... -
A Supported Employment Workbook: Using Individual Profiling and Job Matching by Steve Leach
RRP: £35.00£33.75A 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... -
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... -
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams 9781479814312
RRP: £16.99£14.65Up-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... -
Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Paul Donovan
RRP: £28.99£25.09Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution. It is not the new and innovative technology that will matter in the next decade, but what we do with it. Using technology properly, with diverse decision making,... -
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education by Gary S. Becker
RRP: £27.00£26.47"Human Capital" is Becker's study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Becker looks at the effects of investment in education on earnings and employment, and shows how his theory... -
The Economics of Overtime Working by Robert A. Hart 9780521801423
RRP: £100.00£77.09Numerous individuals throughout international labour markets work hours in excess of their standard contractual hours. Overtime working is a vital consideration in the employment and wage decisions of many households and firms. From a policy perspective,... -
In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics by Sarah Sharma
RRP: £19.99£17.54The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption... -
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts by David D. Woods
RRP: £48.99£43.06For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfunction. The performance of individuals and organizations must continually adjust to current... -
The Telling by Julia Webb 9781913437367
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships - an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we...