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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... -
Idle Hands, Clenched Fists: The Depression in a Shipyard Town by Stephen F. Kelly 9780851244471
£11.05Apologies 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 -
Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution by Bernard S. Mayer
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer-an internationally acclaimed leader in the field-dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution. What's wrong with conflict resolution? Why aren't... -
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 -
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)... -
How to Lead a Values-Based Professional Services Firm: 3 Keys to Unlock Purpose and Profit by Don Scales 9781119621522
RRP: £30.99£20.41We live in a values-driven world. As times change, businesses must evolve. The way that leaders have run companies for generations is no longer relevant.Today -- Purpose wins over products. Values win over features. Stories win over pitches.Everyone... -
Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power by C. Fred Alford
RRP: £25.99£22.49In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The... -
Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids by Matthias Doepke
RRP: £25.00£19.99An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American... -
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... -
Tolley's Practical Risk Assessment Handbook by Mike Bateman
RRP: £64.99£56.54Risk assessment has become the backbone of health and safety management in the UK and elsewhere. Employers have a legal duty to prove that risk assessments have been carried out and to ensure that appropriate precautions have been implemented.Mike... -
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... -
The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines by David H. Autor 9780262547307
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547307Author David H. AutorFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy by Jeremias Prassl 9780198797029
RRP: £22.49£22.27WHAT 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... -
Introduction to Fire Safety Management by Andrew Furness
RRP: £58.99£52.08Andrew Furness and Martin Muckett give an introduction to all areas of fire safety management, including the legal framework, causes and prevention of fire and explosions, fire protection measures, fire risk assessment, and fire investigation. Fire... -
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... -
Justice Denied: Friends, Foes and the Miners' Strike by David Allsop 9780850367300
RRP: £18.99£16.98TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the impact of the strike on participants, and reflects on ongoing controversies and community pride... -
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... -
The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Rebuilding Working Relationships by Nora Doherty 9780749450199
RRP: £29.99£24.83The 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... -
Ghost Dancers: The Miners' Last Generation by David John Douglass 9781873976401
RRP: £12.95£11.42Apologies 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 -
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City by Denys Gorbach 9781805392989
RRP: £107.00£86.87Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude... -
Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris
RRP: £13.99£10.95A 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 Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Gament Workers in London and Dhaka by Naila Kabeer
RRP: £28.99£27.39In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers in Bangladesh and Britain to shed light on the question of what constitutes "fair" competition in international trade. She argues that if the... -
Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week by Will Stronge
RRP: £8.99£7.40Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that reactivating the longstanding demand for shorter working hours should be central to any progressive trajectory... -
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... -
Cancer Factory,The: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim Morris 9780807059142
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059142Author Jim MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Workers' Union by Flora Tristan
RRP: £17.99£15.90Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Tristan urged French workers to put aside... -
Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton 9781912064588
RRP: £20.00£18.81There 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... -
Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler
RRP: £15.99£12.01Apologies 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) -
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... -
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... -
The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
RRP: £15.95£9.62Apologies 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 *... -
The Making of a Mediator: Developing Artistry in Practice by Michael D. Lang 9780787949921
RRP: £47.50£41.81The 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... -
Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon
RRP: £22.00£21.22Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check... -
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... -
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,... -
Restless Souls by Ronnie Brown 9781803780559
RRP: £12.99£8.94'Theory, whether wanted, asked for or needed, was what Penny did best. He had a theory for all things.' Restless Souls plots the pathway of jaded art history lecturer R. I. Penny. Upon reading about the death of actress Kate Considine, found... -
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 -
Microbiology by Dave Wessner 9781119701767
RRP: £55.99£50.96Microbiology is a comprehensive textbook that facilitates a thorough understanding of the scope, nature, and complexity of the science of microscopic organisms. It gives a balanced presentation of foundational concepts, real-world applications, and... -
Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Problems, Progress, and Prospects by Sarosh Kuruvilla
RRP: £25.99£22.49Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains examines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains. Sarosh Kuruvilla charts the development and effectiveness of corporate... -
'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...