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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life In Organizing
$20.00 Add to cartPlaying Bigger Than You Are: A Life In Organizing is the fascinating and compelling story of a man’s determination to empower everyday Americans in their communities and workplaces. We meet people fro
- Author: Acuff, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798869030702
- Language: English
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The Making of the English Working Class
$27.00 Read moreA seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and ar- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703227
- Language: English
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
$21.95 Add to cartIn an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
- Author: Fogel, Robert William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393312186
- Language: English
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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$34.93 Add to cartGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transfo… [more below]
- Author: Malesic, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520344073
- Language: English
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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Introduction to Labor Law
$14.95 Add to cartAn Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third
- Author: Gold, Michael Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479223
- Language: English
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Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
$36.99 Add to cartAt the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for se… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0190901764
- 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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Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
$31.48 Add to cartA compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them
“Conniff brings her skills and- Author: Conniff, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976374
- Language: English
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
$19.99 Add to cartIn late 2006, Saket Soni, an Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coas… [more below]
- Author: Soni, Saket
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755757
- Language: English
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
$18.99 Add to cart“Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age,” (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she… [more below]- Author: Guendelsberger, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509019
- Language: English
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The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age
$30.00 Read moreAn essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years.
Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt’s expectations. That ani- Author: Friedman, Jake S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 164160719X
- Language: English
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The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cartAn essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years.
Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt’s expectations. That ani- Author: Friedman, Jake S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0913705179
- Language: English
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Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation
$35.00 Add to cartFrom nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors–an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it’s like to work in America at this historic a
- Author: Larson, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843330
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
$19.95 Read more“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 Review
How the history of tec- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210799
- Language: English
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You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
$19.95 Add to cart“This is the book to throw at your human resources director–not literally, of course–when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argue
- Author: Rosenfeld, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429548X
- 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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120 Sample Write-Ups for Employee Performance Problems: A Manager’s Guide to Documenting Reviews and Providing Appropriate Discipline
$14.89 Add to cartAre you looking for a stress-free, professional way to address your employees’ performance issues without having them spiral into a litigious frenzy?
You’re in luck!
Crafted and regularly updated to ref
- Author: Young, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1955423113
- 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
