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The Routledge Companion to Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper
RRP: $85.78$74.96Over recent years, many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active, rather than passive, approach to wellbeing at work. Whilst the value of this approach is widely accepted, turning theory into effective practice is still a... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
RRP: $29.23$23.15"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand... -
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael Barnhart
RRP: $58.48$50.68The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of... -
Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice by John W. Budd 9780801472602
RRP: $46.78$39.80John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship... -
Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour by Hsiao-Hung Pai 9780141035680
RRP: $31.18$22.64You know the people in this book. You'll remember the harassed waitress from your local Chinese restaurant. You've noticed those builders across the street working funny hours and without helmets. You've eaten the lettuce they picked, or bought the... -
Staithes: A Place Apart by Gloria Wilson 9781907206634
RRP: $39.00$32.04In 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: $54.58$42.06Published 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 Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work by Jan Eeckhout
RRP: $42.90$33.91A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power-and how it stifles workers around the worldIn an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world's working people have never had it so... -
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
RRP: $58.40$46.00"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live."-Los Angeles Review of BooksThe definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
RRP: $37.03$29.31In 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... -
Labour Regimes and Global Production by Dr Elena Baglioni 9781788216791
RRP: $58.48$55.58There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global... -
The Paula Principle: why women lose out at work - and what needs to be done about it by Tom Schuller 9781911344605
RRP: $19.48$13.07Shortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and that this harms businesses, individuals, and society. Women now outperform men at every level of... -
Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
RRP: $38.90$31.28First 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... -
Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Anitha Sundari 9781912064861
RRP: $35.10$33.21Who 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: $33.05$26.91Apologies 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 Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future by Alec Ross 9781787635418
RRP: $39.00$26.33A 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... -
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
RRP: $25.33$16.54From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political... -
Marx and the Robots: Networked Production, AI, and Human Labour by Florian Butollo 9780745344379
RRP: $38.98$31.34Marxist 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... -
The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here by Lynda Gratton
RRP: $23.38$16.44Work: love it or hate it, it's an all-consuming part of our society, it's changing fast, and the impact on our working lives will be extraordinary. We are now facing a revolution in the way we work. Low carbon economies, new technology and... -
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis 9780804776493
RRP: $46.78$39.80Insulated 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... -
Employability and Local Labour Markets by Ronald W. McQuaid
RRP: $169.63$147.30The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for... -
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
$33.27The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC... -
Organizational Accidents Revisited by James Reason
RRP: $93.58$81.53Managing 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... -
Introducing Employment Relations: A Critical Approach by Steve Williams 9780198835530
RRP: $120.88$113.45This 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... -
The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World by Kuba Szreder
RRP: $29.23$21.35The 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... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman
RRP: $51.68$43.08Enslaved 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: $19.48$13.26How 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 Workers' Union by Flora Tristan
RRP: $38.98$33.48Flora 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... -
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming 9780745334868
RRP: $48.73$37.81There 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... -
Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization's Work Operating System by Ravin Jesuthasan
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046411Author Ravin JesuthasanFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman 9780393356625
RRP: $29.23$25.41Factories, 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... -
A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero
RRP: $33.13$28.28***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... -
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Wolfgang Streeck
RRP: $25.33$16.54The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno... -
Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal University by Peter Fleming 9780745341064
RRP: $29.23$19.11'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While... -
The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Giulia Mensitieri 9781350110168
RRP: $46.78$37.73"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: $39.00$31.38Apologies 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)... -
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence by Jane Holgate
RRP: $37.03$26.03'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: $79.95$73.67Prison 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... -
System of Professions: Essay on the Division of Expert Labour by Andrew Abbott
RRP: $58.50$57.82In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their... -
Where's the 'Human' in Human Resource Management?: Managing Work in the 21st Century by Michael Gold
RRP: $77.98$61.43We all have to work to pay the bills - but what influence do we really have over our pay and working conditions? The emergence of the global economy, digital technologies, mass migration, gig work and zero hours contracts have thrust this question to the...