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The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /François Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in ...
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Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detro...
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The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color...
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Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Controversial and exhaustively researched, gender expert Warren Farrell's latest book Why Men Earn More takes as its stunning argument the idea t...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from "our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism"—The New Yo...
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book ReviewWe live ...
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAROne of Fortune Best Books of the YearOne of Inc. Best Business B...
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration ...
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A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.Product Detail...
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The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out com...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt--"a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate" (Slate)--a p...
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung diseas...
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The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrantsIn The Manufacturing of Job Displacement, Laura Lópe...
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Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Peirce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours … and why now is finally the moment for a breakthrough that would give us all ...
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Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization
PaperbackOriginal price $47.95 - Original price $47.95Original price $47.95$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunne...
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Demographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When global headlines declared that the world had surpassed 8 billion people, concerns around overpopulation and its impact on our planet escalated...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George OrwellBurnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was...
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Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of Covid-19 to Create a Better Model of Working
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The future has never been more uncertain for both employers and employees. They face the same profoundly unsettling dilemma: neither knows what ski...
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