Labor
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Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter
$32.00 Add to cart- Author: Schor, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63382431
- 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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Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World
$28.99 Add to cartFor fans of Fight Like Hell and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces.
G- Author: Brisack, Jaz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1668080796
- Language: English
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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
$35.00 Add to cartHistorian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire
From plebeians refusing- Author: Bond, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273142
- Language: English
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The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work
$28.99 Read moreIn this “long overdue manifesto on gender equality in the workplace, a practical playbook with tips you can put into action immediately…simply priceless” (Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Gri… [more below]
- Author: Babcock, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1982152338
- Language: English
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Design Is a Job: The Necessary Second Edition
$24.99 Add to cartTen years ago this book taught you how to get a seat at the table. That was then, this is now. Now we use the table for kindling.
Design has changed, and this book has changed with it. In this second e
- Author: Monteiro, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989358748
- 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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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bruce, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0198822960
- Language: English
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Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins
$31.48 Add to cartAn insider’s look at how the rise of “fast fashion” obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers
“With years of expertise in the fashion industry, Alyssa’s reporting i- Author: Hardy, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976943
- Language: English
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Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System
$22.95 Read more“A practical guide for business leaders to rethink work so that it is organized around “tasks” more than “jobs.””–
- Series: Management on the Cutting Edge
- Author: Jesuthasan, Ravin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545969
- 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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Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: A Long View of History
$12.00 Add to cartWhere did humanity come from?
How did we arrive where we are today?
Why is that even important?Because without understanding how human society, since our remotest ancestors, has been created through soc… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1604881208
- Language: English
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Mickey and the Teamsters: A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney
$26.95 Add to cartA behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Disney’s character performers and their struggles for union democracy
Behind the costumes, life isn’t always magic and fairy dust for the people who p
- Author: Schneider, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080304
- Language: English
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Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism
$29.00 Read moreHow America’s biggest company began taking better care of its workers–and why such efforts will never be enough.
Fifteen years ago, Walmart was the most controversial company in America. By offering- Author: Wartzman, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1541757998
- Language: English
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the Am
- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389766
- Language: English
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Brainerd Shop Dogs: A History of Northern Pacific Railroad Workers
$23.99 Read moreAn amazing piece of Brainerd’s proud past For over eighty years, the Northern Pacific Railroad Shops was the largest employer in the Brainerd area. After the Depression, the NP provided steady jobs fo… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Roscoe, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150592
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America
$18.99 Read moreThe publication of The Once and Future Worker in November 2018 triggered a “vigorous intra-conservative debate” (Ross Douthat, New York Times), widening the schism between the right-of-center establis… [more below]
- Author: Cass, Oren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771046
- Language: English
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The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines
$24.95 Read moreWhy the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.
The United States has too many low-quality, low-w- Author: Autor, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547309
- Language: English
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65 Read moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
