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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.Â
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 historianÂ
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.Â
“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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£14.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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