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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism... -
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe 9781568589923
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism... -
From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire Sarah Jaffe 9781541703490
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £17.10From the author of Work Won't Love You Back, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change.Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to... -
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.37Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are... -
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589374Author Sarah JaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone by Sarah Jaffe 9781787384644
Booksplease Price: £20.10A Times Business Book of the Year 2021 Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for... -
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company Alice Driver 9781668078839
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a "startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers" (The... -
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver 9781668078822
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive expose of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to... -
Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World Jaz Brisack 9781668080801
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and "better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union... -
Get on the Job and Organize: The Making of a New Labor Movement Jaz Brisack 9781668080795
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25For fans of Fight Like Hell and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces... -
Salvage #11: Already, Not Yet by 9781839768804
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.00Winter 2021 issue of Salvage, featuring China Mieville, Sarah Jaffe, Tad DeLay, and Jules Joanne GleesonAlready, Not Yet includes an essay on communism by China Mieville, Richard Seymour in praise of... -
Labor in the Time of Trump by Jasmine Kerrissey 9781501746598
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.02Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have... -
Labor in the Time of Trump by Jasmine Kerrissey 9781501746604
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have... -
Perdita: On Loss Dylan Riley 9781804296080
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32"Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair." When... -
Why Bad Governments Happen To Good People by Danny Katch 9781608468584
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A sharp witted indictment of the US's broken political system, and a democratic, emancipatory vision for a socialist alternative. The election of Donald Trump has sent the United States and the world... -
Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap... -
The Myth of the Age of Entitlement: Millennials, Austerity, and Hope by James Cairns 9781442636378
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to... -
Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft by Matthew Cole 9781804295663
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Unpaid upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism's enduring open secrets. From unpaid overtime and under-the-table jobs to algorithmic exploitation,... -
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Miéville
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in... -
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness Nathalie Olah 9780349702247
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror... -
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.94In Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the... -
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch 9781642598834
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £32.30A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis. Now with 50% more socialism! Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction... -
Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World by Anna Lekas Miller
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist... -
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.Now with 50% more socialism!Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction to the... -
Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Philip Jones 9781839760433
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a... -
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions Eve Livingston 9780745341620
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.79With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners... -
The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.22In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator Grace Blakeley theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history... -
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap... -
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper 9781788738873
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap... -
Unions Renewed – Building Power in an Age of Finance by Martin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways that... -
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America Erik Baker 9780674293601
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the... -
Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance Alice Martin 9781509539116
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways that... -
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle Jamie Woodcock 9781642590142
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.34Praise for Working the Phones: "A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-center workers." -The Financial Times "Jamie Woodcock shows us what call-centers can tell us about bleakness... -
Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom by Brett Scott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism Amelia Horgan 9780745340913
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.89***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at... -
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and... -
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen 9798888900550
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £40.39An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care... -
Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom "Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform' [a] heroic critic of austerity'... -
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen 9781642599664
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.98An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work... -
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian 9780141993768
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining' Financial Times'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed'After reading Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think about...