Labor & Industrial Relations
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times
An “entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued” (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to- Author: Loomis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976277
- Language: English
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Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
$17.95 Read moreFiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity this collection showcases the
- Author: Bickers, Matilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639915
- Language: English
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
$19.95 Add to cartWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments-and why we can’t see it
One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher- Series: University Center for Human Values #44
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192243
- Language: English
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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartFrom longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy
For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system
- Author: McAlevey, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 006290860X
- Language: English
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Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
$21.99 Add to cart“Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.” Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of govern
- Author: Howard, Philip K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1957588128
- Language: English
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Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
$18.95 Add to cartWhether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winnin… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Anne Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1558612866
- Language: English
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Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of Covid-19 to Create a Better Model of Working
$15.95 Read moreThe future has never been more uncertain for both employers and employees.
They face the same profoundly unsettling dilemma: neither knows what skills they need to develop for the future. Futurists an
- Author: Cadigan, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 1637553099
- Language: English
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
$19.00 Add to cartA philosopher/mechanic’s wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one’s hands
“This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowled- Author: Crawford, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117467
- Language: English
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
$24.99 Add to cartStuds Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives–and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
“Reading these stories, I started to c- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1565843428
- Language: English
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Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
$21.99 Add to cartA deeply-reported examination of why “doing what you love” is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You’re to- Author: Jaffe, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1568589379
- Language: English
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Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between co- Author: Goldin, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691228663
- Language: English
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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
$16.99 Add to cart‘Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.’ – George Orwell
Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic
- Author: Burnham, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18, 2021
- ISBN10: 1839013184
- Language: English
