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  • Cover image of book Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality by Eyal Press
    Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality - by Eyal Press

    £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' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job by Sven Lindqvist
    Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job - by Sven Lindqvist

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis
    The Great Post Office Scandal - by Nick Wallis

    £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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  • Cover image of book Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 by Ralph Darlington
    Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 - by Ralph Darlington

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
    The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind - by Jan Lucassen

    £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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  • Cover image of book Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
    Automation and the Future of Work - by Aaron Benanav

    £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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  • Cover image of book Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
    Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America - by Barbara Ehrenreich

    £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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  • Cover image of book Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Phil Jones
    Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - by Phil Jones

    £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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  • Cover image of book Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
    Nomadland - by Jessica Bruder

    £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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  • Cover image of book Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
    Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan

    £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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  • Cover image of book Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
    Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood - by Helen McCarthy

    £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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  • Cover image of book Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy & Cultural Change in Britain
    Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy & Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factori - by Jack Saunders

    £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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  • Cover image of book Work Won
    Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone - by Sarah Jaffe

    £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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  • Cover image of book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole
    Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly - by Peter Cole

    £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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  • Cover image of book Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China
    Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China's Workers - by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the Making of Modern Britain by Babita Sharma
    The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the Making of Modern Britain - by Babita Sharma

    £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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  • Cover image of book Cicada by Shaun Tan
    Cicada - by Shaun Tan

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Many Not The Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped by the People by Sean Michael Wilson and Robert Brown
    The Many Not The Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped by the People - by Sean Michael Wilson and Robert Brown

    £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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  • Cover image of book Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
    Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain - by James Bloodworth

    £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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  • Cover image of book Bullshit Jobs: A The Rise of Pointless Work And What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
    Bullshit Jobs: A The Rise of Pointless Work And What We Can Do About It - by David Graeber

    £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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  • Cover image of book Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
    Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States - by Sharon Smith

    £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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  • Cover image of book Reform, Revolution And Direct Action Amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 by Martyn Ives
    Reform, Revolution And Direct Action Amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 - by Martyn Ives

    £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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  • Cover image of book Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619-1981 by Philip S. Foner
    Organized Labor And The Black Worker 1619-1981 - by Philip S. Foner

    £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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  • Cover image of book Work: The Last 1,000 Years by Andrea Komlosy
    Work: The Last 1,000 Years - by Andrea Komlosy

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon by Catherine Riley
    The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon - by Catherine Riley

    £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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  • Cover image of book Money On
    Money On't Table: Grit, Work and Family Pride - by Corinne Sweet

    £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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  • Cover image of book Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers by Lainy Malkani
    Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - by Lainy Malkani

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel
    The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others - by Mya Guarnieri Jaradat

    £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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  • Cover image of book Where are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe by Sian Lazar (Editor)
    Where are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe - by Sian Lazar (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan
    Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - by Jerry Kaplan

    £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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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
    Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work - by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    £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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  • Cover image of book What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier
    What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier's Story - by Emily Chappell

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working Class Kids Still Get Working Class Jobs by James Bloodworth
    The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working Class Kids Still Get Working Class Jobs - by James Bloodworth

    £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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  • Cover image of book Dare to be Free: Women in Trade Unions, Past and Present by Bernadette Hyland and Michael Herbert
    Dare to be Free: Women in Trade Unions, Past and Present - by Bernadette Hyland and Michael Herbert

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day by Peter Linebaugh
    The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day - by Peter Linebaugh

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Shepherd
    The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District - by James Rebanks

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers
    The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement - by Stanley Aronowitz

    £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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  • Cover image of book Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson
    Please, Mister Postman - by Alan Johnson

    £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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  • Cover image of book A World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs by Ilana Gershon (Editor)
    A World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs - by Ilana Gershon (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming
    The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself - by Peter Fleming

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh by Jeremy Seabrook
    The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh - by Jeremy Seabrook

    £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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  • Cover image of book All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work by Joanna Biggs
    All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work - by Joanna Biggs

    £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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  • Cover image of book An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy by Dario Azzellini (Editor)
    An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy - by Dario Azzellini (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
    The Bookshop Book - by Jen Campbell

    £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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  • Cover image of book Made by Hand: Contemporary Makers, Traditional Practices by Leanne Hayman and Nick Warner (Editors)
    Made by Hand: Contemporary Makers, Traditional Practices - by Leanne Hayman and Nick Warner (Editors)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
    The Bookshop That Floated Away - by Sarah Henshaw

    £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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  • Cover image of book Working Lives by David Hall
    Working Lives - by David Hall

    £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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  • Cover image of book Scattered Sand: The Story of China
    Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - by Hsiao-Hung Pai

    £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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  • Cover image of book Scattered Sand: The Story of China
    Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - by Hsiao-Hung Pai

    £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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  • Cover image of book Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin
    Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy - by Ross Perlin

    £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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  • Cover image of book Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... by Andrew Laties
    Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... - by Andrew Laties

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Idler 44: Mind Your Business - Small Enterprise as Liberating Strategy by Tom Hodgkinson (Editor)
    The Idler 44: Mind Your Business - Small Enterprise as Liberating Strategy - by Tom Hodgkinson (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Bad News: The Wapping Dispute by John Lang & Graham Dodkins, Foreword by Tony Benn
    Bad News: The Wapping Dispute - by John Lang & Graham Dodkins, Foreword by Tony Benn

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Night Cleaner by Florence Aubenas
    The Night Cleaner - by Florence Aubenas

    £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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  • Cover image of book Firefighters and the Blitz by Francis Beckett
    Firefighters and the Blitz - by Francis Beckett

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson
    The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy - by Lisa Dodson

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Really Bored @ Work Doodle Book by Rose Adders
    The Really Bored @ Work Doodle Book - by Rose Adders

    £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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  • Cover image of book Is Your Boss Mad? The definitive guide to coping with your boss by Jill Walker
    Is Your Boss Mad? The definitive guide to coping with your boss - by Jill Walker

    £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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  • Cover image of book Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers by Sonali Shah
    Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers - by Sonali Shah

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Art of Happiness At Work by Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
    The Art of Happiness At Work - by Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler

    £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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  • Cover image of book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
    Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do - by Studs Terkel

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) by Arlie Hochschild
    The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) - by Arlie Hochschild

    £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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