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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 world’s 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 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 China’s 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 China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... 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 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 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 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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