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Fire Safety in Residential Property: A Practical Approach for Environmental Health by Richard Lord
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of... -
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... -
Lady of Spain: A Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria by 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... -
Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches by Stefan Kuhl 9780367728779
RRP: £41.99£36.75Using Marxist and systems theory as guides, this book offers an entry point to the current debate on the role of economy in modern society, the change in work organizations and the effect of the economy on the individual. It explores the concepts of... -
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... -
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom: Theory and Practice by Carol Lethaby 9781913414894
£48.78Do 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... -
Ultimatum Orangutan by Khairani Barokka 9781913437091
RRP: £9.99£6.99Khairani 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... -
Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim by Edna Bonacich 9781566391696
RRP: £34.00£29.89Pacific 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... -
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... -
Saturdays at the Imaginarium by Shauna Darling Robertson 9781912745128
RRP: £8.99£6.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912745128Author Shauna Darling RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Troika BooksPublisher Troika BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Unequal: How extreme inequality is damaging democracy, and what we can do about it by David Buckham
RRP: £12.99£8.60The 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... -
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman 9781641607193
RRP: £26.95£24.58An 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... -
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... -
The The Mayor of Casterbridge. by Thomas Hardy 9781912714957
RRP: £20.00£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912714957Author Thomas HardyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
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... -
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 -
Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco 9781838059200
RRP: £8.99£7.40A 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... -
Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer by Lisa F Berkman
£28.62America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Many policymakers think it's logical--almost inevitable--that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor force. But it's an assumption that doesn't match... -
Labouring Men by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£9.80The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of... -
The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition by Tito Boeri 9780691206363
RRP: £88.00£70.35The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them-now completely updated and expandedToday's labor markets are witnessing seismic changes brought on by such factors as rising self-employment, temporary employment,... -
Women Workers and the Trade Unions by Sarah Boston 9781910448038
RRP: £20.00£18.81Updated with new chapters on 1987-1997 and 1997-2010 In this highly-praised book, Sarah Boston recounts the story of women workers from the early nineteenth century to the present day: the struggles and strikes, successes and failures in their strenuous... -
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag
RRP: £22.00£16.68What Thoreau can teach us about working-why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked:... -
Fair Wages: Strengthening Corporate Social Responsibility by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 9781849804295
RRP: £34.95£31.69Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this... -
The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon by Alessandro Delfanti
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early... -
Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility by Sebastian Edwards 9780815721079
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815721079Author Sebastian EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation by Darrell M. West 9780815732938
RRP: £16.99£15.11Looking for ways to handle the transition to a digital economy. Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with... -
Nothing To Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Jane Hardy
RRP: £19.99£13.35Capitalism 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... -
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative by George J. Borjas 9780393249019
RRP: £20.99£17.51We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become... -
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Alex Rosenblat 9780520324800
RRP: £16.99£13.65Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using... -
Personnel Economics in Practice by Edward P. Lazear 9781119427360
RRP: £55.95£48.93Personnel Economics in Practice, 3rd Edition by Edward Lazear and Michael Gibbs gives readers a rigorous framework for understanding organizational design and the management of employees. Economics has proven to be a powerful approach in the changing... -
The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Rudyard Kipling 9781913603144
RRP: £6.99£5.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913603144Author Rudyard Rudyard KiplingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint BOTH PressPublisher BOTH PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm -
Robin Murray: Selected Political Writings by Michael Rustin
RRP: £18.00£17.42Robin Murray: Selected Writings demonstrates the breadth of Murray's intellectual curiosity and his political commitment to finding new ways of organising the economy and society. A thinker at the heart of left-wing thought and contributor to the seminal... -
The Economics of the Trade Union by Alison L. Booth 9780521468398
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to non-union labour markets where workers have some market... -
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan 9780306830921
RRP: £25.00£17.58A 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... -
Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers by Ellen K. Silbergeld 9781421420301
RRP: £22.50£18.56Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the... -
Trico: A Victory to Remember: The 1976 Equal Pay Strike at Trico Folberth, Brentford by Sally Groves 9781912064878
RRP: £25.00£23.27This is the story of the historic 21 week equal pay strike at Trico-Folberth in Brentford, West London, in 1976. TRICO - A Victory to Remember is indispensable to understanding how the 1970s marked a turning point in making women's rights a central focus... -
The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy by Robert E. Wright 9783319489674
RRP: £54.99£38.14This 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... -
UNITE History Volume 5 (1974-1992): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): From Zenith to Nadir? by Mary Davis 9781802078503
£8.35This volume traces the history of the TGWU from its zenith in the period of the Labour Government to its nadir in 1992. It easily divides itself into two distinct periods. The first from 1974-79 saw a reforming Labour government which, recognising trade... -
Heartman by M. P. Wright 9781785303944
RRP: £8.99£6.45It's 1965, and a young woman has vanished from the streets of Bristol. A Caribbean immigrant, unable to hear or speak, she is invisible to the police and lost to the biting winter night.Enter Joseph Tremaine Ellington. An ex-cop fleeing a broken heart... -
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams 9781633693784
RRP: £14.99£14.58Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In...