Labor & Industrial Relations
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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 Read moreWhether 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
