Labor & Industrial Relations
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
$27.50 Read moreA startling discovery–that job market success after college is largely random–forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college- Author: Streib, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829316
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – Updated Edition
$23.95 Add to cartThe reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II
Once America’s “arsenal of democracy,” Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of Amer- Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Sugrue, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162557
- Language: English
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The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto
$13.99 Add to cartCommunism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influent… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 01 1988
- ISBN10: 087975446X
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
$30.00 Add to cartIn a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resil… [more below]
- Author: Hamby, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0316299472
- Language: English
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
$18.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
One of Fortune Best Books of the Year
One of Inc. Best Business Books of the Year
One of The Times (UK) Best Business Books o- Author: Susskind, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808251
- Language: English
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Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventuall
- Author: Hillard, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501753150
- Language: English
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Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face
Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring mo- Series: What Everyone Needs to Knowrg
- Author: Argys, Laura M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190093382
- Language: English
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
$31.15 Add to cartNewly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect
Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set- Author: Murolo, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974487
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class
$24.95 Add to cartA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist hi
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635909
- Language: English
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Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
$30.00 Add to cartThe images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors-but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In t
- Author: Mahdavi, Pardis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0804772207
- Language: English
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The Harvest Gypsies
$14.00 Add to cartSelected by NYU as one of the century’s best books of American journalism.
Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the pl
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1890771619
- Language: English
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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942
$24.95 Add to cartTold with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on
- Author: Troutman, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639338
- Language: English
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Labor Power and Strategy
$16.95 Add to cartWhat would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organi
- Author: Womack Jr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639745
- Language: English
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On the Line: Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
$16.99 Read more“Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better–or more necessary–time.” –Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland
“A riv- Author: Pitkin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753398
- Language: English
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Doing It All: Stop Over-Functioning and Become the Mom and Person You’re Meant to Be
$19.99 Read moreDiscover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to beating burnout and thriving as a working mom.
In Doing It All, Dr. Whitney Casares, author, pediatrician- Author: Casares, Whitney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0760386994
- Language: English
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The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
Winner of the C. L. R. James Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A ProMarket Best Politi- Author: Winant, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292197
- Language: English
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartCovid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take in
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1642592633
- Language: English
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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines
$18.99 Add to cartA public policy leader addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming the future of labor–and what we can do to protect the role of workers.
As computer technology advances with dizzying spee- Author: Merisotis, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0795353480
- Language: English
