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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of ...
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You're Paid What You're Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of econ...
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The New Geography Of Jobs
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In The New Geography of Jobs, award-winning Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti looks at the major shifts taking place in the US economy and reveal...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economis...
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The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Does anyone save historians remember the Wobblies? This nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the revolutionary labor union fou...
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most popul...
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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence ...
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Stayin¿ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned h...
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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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Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light ...
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerAs a Barnes & Noble Discover Award winner, a personal favorite, and now a movie starring Frances McDormand—we stron...
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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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Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics A renowned economic historian traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new ligh...
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, 3rd Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipme...
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The HR Business Partner Handbook: A Practical Guide to Being Your Organization's Strategic People Expert
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /How do I balance delivery of the HR strategy with the needs of the business? How can I solve key people issues while also becoming a true strateg...
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Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of...
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Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement.Many policymakers think it's logical—almost inevitable—that Americans will dela...
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Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the inte...
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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of hu...
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The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing how legal professional...
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Principles of Economics
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) – Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant ...
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Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /For courses in Success/Orientation, Diversity (ie. Managing Diversity), Race and Ethnic Relations, Cultural Diversity in the Workplace, Multicult...
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Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715$1865
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780313205224 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: 05-10-1979 Pages: 283 Product Dimensio...
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