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101 Proven Ways to Increase Efficiency and Make More Money in Lawn Care
$18.89 Add to cart101 Proven Ways to Increase Efficiency and Make More Money in Lawn Care from best-selling author Paul Jamison is the completion of a trilogy that began with Cut That Grass and Make That Cash. In Paul’
- Author: Jamison, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 0578349442
- Language: English
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The Everything Guide to Remote Work: The Ultimate Resource for Remote Employees, Hybrid Workers, and Digital Nomads
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover the secret to being productive and successful no matter where you are with this essential guide to remote work.
During COVID-19, working from home became the new normal. Now, both employers a- Series: Everything(r)
- Author: Duffy, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1507217862
- Language: English
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Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
$29.00 Read moreIn the tradition of bestselling classics such as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Benjamin Lorr’s The Secret Life of Groceries comes a character-driven exploration of the modern supermarket, … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1668094509
- Language: English
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A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel’s Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it’s like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . .… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168589190X
- Language: English
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99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
$28.00 Add to cartAn enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This- Author: Chandler, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593700570
- Language: English
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Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law
$19.95 Read moreThe complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago mi
- Author: Green, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1517912954
- Language: English
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What We Build with Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
$17.00 Read moreA historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists
What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to- Author: Sentíes, David Delmar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 080700667X
- Language: English
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
$19.00 Read more“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes…. Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review
We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wag- Author: Greenhouse, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1101872799
- Language: English
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
$25.00 Add to cartIn Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-co… [more below]
- Author: Lubrano, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0471714399
- Language: English
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Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$29.99 Add to cartThis sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.
Faith in technological fixes for our problems is- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590517970
- 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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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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The New Geography of Jobs
$18.99 Add to cartIn The New Geography of Jobs, award-winning Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti looks at the major shifts taking place in the US economy and reveals the surprising winners and losers – s… [more below]
- Author: Moretti, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0544028058
- Language: English
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Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It
$28.00 Read more“This book gave me a new lens to see the world.”–Robert Krulwich, former co-host of WNYC’s Radiolab
Addressing the pressing issues affecting everyday Americans during an election year is essential–a… [more below]
- Author: Leopold, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022331
- Language: English
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Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
$19.95 Read moreHow social class determines who lands the best jobs
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it i- Author: Rivera, Lauren A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169276
- 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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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
$19.99 Add to cartFrom David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt–“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)–a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unf
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07, 2019
- ISBN10: 1501143336
- Language: English
