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When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession by Suzanne Gordon 9780801477508
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses-and the people they serve-in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the... -
Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off by Eileen R. Appelbaum
Booksplease Price: $35.97Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee... -
The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker by Theresa Serber Malkiel 9780875461687
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.24The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker was originally published in 1910 by The Cooperative Press. A Russian immigrant who was a journalist and a militant socialist, the author presented her account of the... -
Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage by Al Davidoff 9781501771552
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $22.24Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University. Al Davidoff, the Cornell student leader who... -
Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing by Dana Beth Weinberg 9780801489198
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.38We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even... -
Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care by Suzanne Gordon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.63In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping... -
Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization by Jefferson Cowie
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $36.35The immediate impact of deindustrialization-the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities-has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume,... -
Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines by Suzanne Gordon 9780801474286
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"A beautiful, profound, and profoundly important book.... Gordon's message is simplicity itself: sick people need skilled, humane, and insightful care that keeps their interests paramount. Registered... -
Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew 9780801474392
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.23"Mathew, as a member of the Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, has a unique perspective on the plight of immigrant taxi drivers.... Mathew explores the history of New York's... -
Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
Booksplease Price: $29.94This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography,... -
Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus by Saori Shibata 9781501749926
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $120.00Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact... -
Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World by Danielle Lindemann 9781501731181
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual... -
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work by James A. Chamberlain 9781501748448
Booksplease Price: $22.24This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic... -
Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy Bernice L. Hausman 9781501785030
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In Anti/Vax, Bernice Hausman challenges the widespread perception of vaccine skepticism shaped by media, celebrities, and internet misinformation. She explores other motivations behind vaccine... -
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public by Bernice Buresh 9780801478734
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.63Praise for previous editions- "The book is written by two journalists who have taken on the nursing profession more or less the way we take on patients with a life-threatening condition that is... -
Labor on the Line: Justice at Work on Assam Tea Plantations Anna-Lena Wolf 9781501783371
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Labor on the Line provides insights into the world's largest tea growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform,... -
Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice by Jane Juffer 9781501760280
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In Millennial Feminism at Work, volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of their feminist studies programs in their chosen... -
Watch Your Back!: How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less-and What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment by Richard A. Deyo 9780801453243
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.23Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by... -
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory by Penny Lewis 9780801451744
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $118.94In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war... -
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization by Steven High 9780801474019
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large... -
The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir by Michael Ansara 9781501782145
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country. Michael... -
Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman 9780801479519
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"When you work in restaurants you think the industry is everything, It's being outside, talking to people, serving people. You feel like you're part of something good. People mostly go out to eat for... -
Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety by Suzanne Gordon 9780801451607
Booksplease Price: $96.52The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to... -
Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety by Suzanne Gordon 9780801478291
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.23The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to... -
Baccano!, Vol. 3 (light novel): 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Express by Ryohgo Narita 9780316270410
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16The year is 1931. A boy boards a train to visit his friend in New York. A woman in a jumpsuit boards a train to meet her employer in New York. And the conductor? He boards because it's his job. If it... -
Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico by Natasha Iskander 9780801475993
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $35.97At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for... -
Fields of Combat: Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan by Erin P. Finley
Booksplease Price: $26.95For many of the 1.6 million U.S. service members who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, the trip home is only the beginning of a longer journey. Many undergo an awkward period of... -
Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures by Betsy Leondar-Wright
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.94Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching... -
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 by Barbara Kingsolver 9780801483899
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.16Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and... -
The Thought of Work by John W. Budd
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94What is work? Is it simply a burden to be tolerated or something more meaningful to one's sense of identity and self-worth? And why does it matter? In a uniquely thought-provoking book, John W. Budd... -
Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry Michael G. Hillard 9781501785061
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In Shredding Paper, Michael G. Hillard examines how Maine, once the nation's leader in paper production, saw its powerful industry decline. From the early twentieth century to the 1960s, Maine's...