Labor
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Negotiating With Agility: A Manager’s Guide to Better Labor Agreements
$31.99 Add to cartAt last: a concise, practical guide that shows managers how to create agility at the bargaining table through thoughtful planning and preparation in the weeks, months, and years before formal negotiat
- Author: Beyerchen, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 163742471X
- Language: English
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits
$27.00 Add to cartAlmost one in four American working adults has a job that pays less than a living wage. Conventional wisdom says that’s how the world has to work. Bad jobs with low wages, minimal benefits, littl
- Author: Ton, Zeynep
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544114442
- Language: English
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The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work
$28.00 Add to cartA guide for individuals and organizations navigating the complex and ambiguous Future of Work
Foreword by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman
Technology is changing wor
- Author: McGowan, Heather E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1119653096
- Language: English
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Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement
$17.99 Read moreThe essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field
The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor mo
- Author: Ordower, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978180
- Language: English
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Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration
$34.95 Read moreTwo management and technology experts show that AI is not a job destroyer, exploring worker-AI collaboration in real-world work settings.
This book breaks through both the hype and the doom-and-gloom- Series: Management on the Cutting Edge
- Author: Davenport, Thomas H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047241
- 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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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$31.18 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 520391527
- Language: English
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Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their Unions
$24.95 Add to cartA timely and inspiring work of comics journalism–the history of unions and why we need them (and a first-hand account of working in an Amazon warehouse).
Workers of the world, unite! From comics jour
- Author: Wallman, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1950354997
- Language: English
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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
$32.99 Add to cartThis original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates,… [more below]
- Author: Goodhart, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: August 09 2020
- ISBN10: 3030426564
- 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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Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” –Adam Gopnik, The New Y- Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110748
- Language: English
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Fixer: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist
- Author: Kunz, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0063288591
- Language: English
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
$30.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. In- Author: Nolan, Hamilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306830922
- 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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The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone’s Work
$32.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Business Books of 2023 by the Financial Times
Thinkers50 2023 Winner: Talent Award
From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excel
- Author: Ton, Zeynep
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1647824176
- 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 Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
$29.95 Read more“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0807059145
- Language: English
