Labor & Industrial Relations
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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
$19.95 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
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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
