Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Ultimatum Orangutan by Khairani Barokka 9781913437091
RRP: £9.99£7.21Khairani Barokka's second poetry collection is an intricate exploration of colonialism and environmental injustice: her acute, interlaced language draws clear connections between colonial exploitation of fellow humans, landscapes, animals, and ecosystems... -
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality by Wiemer Salverda 9780199606061
RRP: £37.99£37.75The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
RRP: £18.99£17.34In 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... -
The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy by Christopher K Andrews 9781498543804
RRP: £37.00£32.40The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on... -
The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation by Peter Fleming
RRP: £16.99£12.14In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth. As this myth becomes increasingly preposterous, it's time to understand why we believe in it, and where it came from. The Death of Homo... -
Bait And Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781862078970
RRP: £9.99£5.92Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first... -
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes
RRP: £9.99£8.27There 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... -
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts by David D. Woods
RRP: £48.99£43.39For 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... -
'Mon the Workers: Celebrating 125 Years of the Scottish Trades Union Congress by Daniel Gray
RRP: £16.99£12.47The postman and the primary teacher, the midwife and the musician. Workers in shops, workers at sea. Solidarity with the Columbian farmer and the Palestinian fireman... Modern trade unionists in Scotland perform roles in every imaginable location and are... -
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation by Jason E. Smith
RRP: £15.95£11.59In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries... -
Lady of Spain: A Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria Simon Courtauld 9781912945320
RRP: £22.50£14.87Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, was born in 1538 into a family at the heart of Court struggles between Catholicism and Protestantism, and married twenty years later into the world of the Spanish Court, refuge of exiled English Catholics. The marriage... -
Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement by Cassidy R. Sugimoto
RRP: £29.95£24.03The 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... -
Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe by Virginia Doellgast
RRP: £40.49£34.00Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing... -
The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World Kuba Szreder 9781526161321
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... -
The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
RRP: £15.95£9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544028050Author Enrico MorettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton 9781912064588
RRP: £20.00£16.98There is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the... -
First aid at work: The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, guidance on regulations by Great Britain: Health and Safety Executive 9780717665600
£18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717665600Author HSEFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint HSE BooksPublisher HSE Books -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: £14.95£12.53The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies... -
Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Anitha Sundari 9781912064861
RRP: £18.00£15.40Who 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... -
Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer 9781913441463
RRP: £18.99£16.78How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital? Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles... -
International Human Resource Management by Peter Dowling 9781473773790
£56.14The 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... -
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle 9780520300569
RRP: £25.00£19.59Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that the gig economy will reverse... -
Jethro Tull Chronicles 1967-79 by Laura Shenton 9781912782932
RRP: £59.99£43.31This 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... -
Ghost Dancers: The Miners' Last Generation by David John Douglass 9781873976401
RRP: £12.95£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873976401Author David John DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint ChristieBooksPublisher ChristieBooksDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 40mm -
Beyond Mechanization: Work and Technology in a Postindustrial Age by Larry Hirschhorn 9780262580816
£27.00Human skill and judgment are needed now more than ever to effectively run today's complex computerized production systems. In this thought-provoking study of work, worker, and machine in the postindustrial age, Hirschhorn points out that factories will... -
Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco 9781838059200
RRP: £8.99£7.50A young girl, anonymous and ignored, sits through a cold, hard west-country winter, scrounging for change and a warm place to sleep. Ghosts of Spring explores one girl's desire to transcend the limits of her environment and forge a new life against all... -
Nothing To Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Jane Hardy
RRP: £19.99£13.55Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways. In Britain today, the gig economy is its newest form, expressed through precarious contracts and the supposed atomisation of workers. In this book, Jane Hardy... -
The Making of a Mediator: Developing Artistry in Practice Michael D. Lang 9780787949921
RRP: £47.50£42.13The Making of a Mediator goes beyond the basics of mediation process. In this essential resource, expert mediator and teacher Michael Lang outlines his innovative model of artistry in professional practice that results from the understanding of and... -
In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics by Sarah Sharma
RRP: £19.99£17.81The 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... -
Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim by Edna Bonacich 9781566391696
RRP: £34.00£27.17Pacific Rim scholars look at globalization's impact on international economicsPacific Rim scholars look at globalization's impact on international economicsAbout the AuthorEdna Bonacich is Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of... -
Pulling Together: The Making of a Global Maritime Trade Union by Andrew Linington 9781849955737
RRP: £19.99£16.42Ship masters and officers may not seem like pioneers of trade unionism. However, this history of their unique union, Nautilus International, shows how they have been pitched into the forefront of a long struggle for decent jobs, fair pay and conditions,... -
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 -
Unequal: How extreme inequality is damaging democracy, and what we can do about it David Buckham 9781802471373
RRP: £12.99£8.83The ongoing war in Ukraine, between freedom and totalitarianism, has been brewing since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the great victory of liberal democracy over communism. In recent decades, authoritarian regimes have proliferated or become... -
Labor Economics by Pierre Cahuc
RRP: £116.00£99.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262027700Author Pierre CahucFormat HardbackPage Count 1080Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 37mm -
An Eye for Birds by Bruce Kendrick 9781849954952
RRP: £18.99£15.65As a ten-year-old, the author contracted TB and was sent to an isolated sanatorium, deep in the Cheshire coun-tryside. There he was bedridden for six months. On fine days, nurses would push the young patients, in their beds, out onto a large veranda and... -
Chainsaw Operator's Manual: Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-cutting Techniques by ForestWorks
£27.01The 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... -
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself Peter Fleming 9780745334868
£25.25There 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... -
Idle Hands, Clenched Fists: The Depression in a Shipyard Town by Stephen F. Kelly 9780851244471
RRP: £10.99£9.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244471Author Stephen F. KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm -
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman 9780375703799
RRP: £16.53£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703799Author Katherine S. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Marx and the Robots: Networked Production, AI, and Human Labour by Florian Butollo 9780745344379
RRP: £19.99£16.00Marxist 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...