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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781801107235 | ISBN 10: 1801107238
A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.
A New Statesman Book of the Year
'This book will prompt a public reckoning with inequality in work'
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914420955 | ISBN 10: 1914420950
On the 45th anniversary of its initial publication in Swedish, Sven Lindqvist’s polemic on history, politics and power is finally available in English for the first time.
This volume brings Dig Where You Stand, Sven Lindqvist’s classic t ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739099206 | ISBN 10: 1739099206
The story of the fight to expose a multimillion IT disaster that put innocent people in jail.
The definitive account of what has been described as one of the UK's biggest ever miscarriages of justice. Written by award-winning broadcaster and jou ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745339030 | ISBN 10: 0745339034
'Fascinating' - Raquel Varela, labour historian
The Labour Revolt that swept Britain in the early 20th century was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300267068 | ISBN 10: 0300267061
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day.
“Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761324 | ISBN 10: 1839761326
A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market.
In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783787548 | ISBN 10: 1783787546
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them in order to find out how anyone could survive on six to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home, too ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839760433 | ISBN 10: 1839760435
The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.
We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new worl ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800750302 | ISBN 10: 1800750307
Now a major motion picture. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilienc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745340913 | ISBN 10: 0745340911
'Work hard, get paid.'
It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.
For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408870754 | ISBN 10: 1408870754
In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their ... more
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£21.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526155979 | ISBN 10: 1526155974
In British political discourse the idea that in the 1970s trade unions 'ran the country' has become a truism, a folk mythology invoked against the twin perils of socialism and strikes. But who exactly wielded power in Britain's workplaces and on what ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787384644 | ISBN 10: 1787384640
Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638324 | ISBN 10: 1629638323
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745341293 | ISBN 10: 0745341292
Suicides, excessive overtime, hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the wo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473673236 | ISBN 10: 1473673232
'I come from a hidden world: I am the daughter of shopkeepers. I've seen you on a Sunday morning, nipping out to get a pint of milk or to grab a newspaper. I came to know a lot about you; whether your politics leaned to the right or left, whether you ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781444946208 | ISBN 10: 144494620x
Cicada work in tall building.
Data entry clerk. Seventeen year.
No sick day. No mistake.
Tok Tok Tok!
Cicada works in an office, dutifully working day after day for unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his co-workers. But one day, somet ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780264448 | ISBN 10: 1780264445
An old union rep, Joe, and his granddaughter, Arushi, spend a few pleasant days together going over the history of the labour movement. Over tea and sandwiches in his studio they consider the whole wide sweep and points of connection throughout histo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786490162 | ISBN 10: 1786490161
We all define ourselves by our profession. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain’s divisions journalist James Bloodworth spends six months living and working across Britain, taking on the country’s mos ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141983479 | ISBN 10: 0141983477
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608469178 | ISBN 10: 1608469174
This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.
Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, from the ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608468195 | ISBN 10: 1608468194
In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.
While other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608467877 | ISBN 10: 1608467872
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
"Organized Labor and the Black Worker… documents a very long history of trade union and white working-cla ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786634108 | ISBN 10: 1786634104
Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history
Say the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of ... more
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£19.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785338557 | ISBN 10: 1785338552
The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically diff ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910463543 | ISBN 10: 191046354x
"Nottinghamshire, 1930. A county in the Midlands, right in the centre of England, with a heavily industrialised city at its heart. Nottingham was known for its tightly-packed, soot-encrusted, red-brick back-to-back terraced houses; smoke curling over ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908446602 | ISBN 10: 1908446609
A fascinating web of honey-coloured threads linking Indian migrant workers, who first left the Sub-Continent more than a hundred and fifty years ago, and their descendants now living in contemporary Britain.
Sugar Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745336442 | ISBN 10: 0745336442
Drawing on a decade of courageous and pioneering reporting, Mya Guarnieri Jaradat brings us an unprecedented and compelling look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel, who hail mainly from Africa and Asia.
From illegal ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609895 | ISBN 10: 1783609893
The first fully comprehensive comparison of the Latin American ‘turn to the left’, the Middle East and North African ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements of Europe and North America, with a focus on the apparent lack of u ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300223576 | ISBN 10: 0300223579
An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work.
Selected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Econom ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786229 | ISBN 10: 1784786225
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work.
Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no r ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783350537 | ISBN 10: 1783350539
Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it'd be a useful stopgap while searching for a 'real' job. Today, six years on, she's still pedalling. 'It's my most end ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900532 | ISBN 10: 1785900536
The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. I ... more
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£3.95 (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993224713 | ISBN 10: 0993224717
This pamphlet explores the role of women in trade unions, both in the past and in contemporary Britain.
This publication has been made possible by a grant from the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust and the General Federation of Trade ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631073 | ISBN 10: 1629631078
May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil. So writes celebrated historian Pe ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141979366 | ISBN 10: 0141979364
From James Rebanks, the Herdwick Shepherd, comes The Shepherd's Life, a story of the Lake District and its people which could redefine the literature of rural life.
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784783006 | ISBN 10: 1784783005
The decline of the American union movement and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor.
Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552170659 | ISBN 10: 0552170658
In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780801456855 | ISBN 10: 0801456851
Ever wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible look at different types of work around the world delivers a wealth of information and advice a ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334868 | ISBN 10: 0745334865
There was once a time when work was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of l ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849045223 | ISBN 10: 1849045224
** WINNER OF THE 2016 BREAD AND ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING **
In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of th ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781251874 | ISBN 10: 1781251878
A vibrant narrative portrait of the UK today in the vein of Craig Taylor's Londoners, woven from the voices of its workforce.
The average person spends 100,000 hours of their life at work, but how much do we really know about what we do with ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783601547 | ISBN 10: 178360154x
The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. L ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472116666 | ISBN 10: 1472116666
Every bookshop has a story. We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.
We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old ru ... more
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£16.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908966391 | ISBN 10: 1908966394
A visual survey of some of the worlds finest hand makers, the spaces they work in and the products they create, Made by Hand: Contemporary Makers, Traditional Practices is a remedy to mass- production and a celebration of the return to artisan craft ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472108050 | ISBN 10: 1472108051
The story of an extraordinary bookshop... and everything its owner did to keep it afloat. In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archa ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552162234 | ISBN 10: 055216223x
In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work du ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680902 | ISBN 10: 1781680906
Each year, 200 million workers from Chinas vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of Chinas GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678860 | ISBN 10: 1844678865
Each year, 200 million workers from Chinas vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of Chinas GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678839 | ISBN 10: 1844678830
The first no-holds-barred expos of the exploitative and divisive world of internships.
Every year, between 1 and 2 million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood stud ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609801397 | ISBN 10: 1609801393
Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987 he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as a ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780954845629 | ISBN 10: 0954845625
The 2011 issue of the Idler is devoted to the idea of small business as an alternative to the grind of the nine-to-five.
There is an introduction by editor Tom Hodgkinson who attempts to outline a idler's business ethic. Tom also tells t ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780851247960 | ISBN 10: 0851247962
In January 1986, some 5,500 workers employed by four of Britain's national newspapers were sacked. The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times were all owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International Limited, and the bitter industrial dis ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745651996 | ISBN 10: 0745651992
The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's most
accomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into th ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780850366730 | ISBN 10: 0850366739
Firefighters in the Second World War were as crucial to victory as the army - and they ran the same sort of risks.
Sixteen thousand were killed and 180,000 injured. The rest never forgot the dreadful things they saw: "Once you've pulled ... more
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£21.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781595584724 | ISBN 10: 1595584722
"I pad their paychecks because you cant live on what they make."(Supervisor of a fast-food pizza place)
Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans wi ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781853757228 | ISBN 10: 1853757225
Hot on the heels of The Bored @ Work Doodle Book comes The Really Bored @ Work Doodle Book. It is packed with a whole raft of new ways to stay awake during meetings, fun ideas for rating your job satisfaction and the cups of tea made by your colleagu ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845900397 | ISBN 10: 1845900391
It wasnt difficult to research this book. Poor management is sadly so very common. Almost everyone has a story about a mad bad boss they once worked for go on, ask!
If youve ever suffered because of the behaviour of a bad boss, this book ... more
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£29.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843102083 | ISBN 10: 1843102080
Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers challenges the assumption that disabled employees are a homogenous group and discusses important questions such as: What is disability? How do people with physical impairments define success? Does gender impact ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780340831205 | ISBN 10: 0340831200
The Art of Happiness has become the classic guide to the Dalai Lama's enlightened approach to living - illuminating the profound principles and perceptive wisdom of this greatest, most revered spiritual leader, from a clear western perspective.   ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781565843424 | ISBN 10: 1565843428
A new edition of what is perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, from a policeman to a pian ... more
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£24.00 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780520239333 | ISBN 10: 0520239334
In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commerci ... more
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