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  • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

    An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

    Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American ProspectPraised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Squeeze

    Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Private Government

    How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

    Series Book 44 - The University Center for Human Values Series
    Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of America in Ten Strikes

    by Erik Loomis ...
    **Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, *In These TimesAn “entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued” (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in America*“A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles, with critically important lessons for those who seek a better future for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    Series Book 91 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Wage Theft in America

    Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It

    by Kim Bobo ...
    “This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedIn what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Know Your Rights: A Legal Guide for Waiters, Bartenders, and Service Industry Employees

    by Robert Wiley ...
    This book teaches about wage theft and employment laws protecting tipped employees. ... Read more

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  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lexicon of Labor

    More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

    A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore. “Worth reading aloud while walking the picket line.” —The Seattle TimesFirst published in 1998, The Lexicon of Labor found a large and appreciative following among readers who were grateful to have the vibrant, powerful language of the labor movement captured in a lively single volume. This long-awaited ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Law: Robust Protection for Corporate Whistleblowers

    by Zuckerman Law ...
    This guide provides an overview of the key elements of a SOX whistleblower claim and an overview of the procedures governing the adjudication of SOX whistleblower claims. If you are considering blowing the whistle on fraud or other securities law violations, this guide will hopefully put you in an optimal position to protect yourself from retaliation. And if you have suffered retaliation, this ... Read more

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  • Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration

    Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law.The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights ... Read more

    Free

  • Every Employee's Guide to the Law

    Covering every aspect of employment from the job interview to post-employment benefits, this invaluable resource focuses on employee rights guaranteed by law and explains how workers can be protected. In language praised for its clarity and accessiblity, this updated edition provides a strong foundation of legal knowledge and advice on wages and hours, health and safety, harassment, invasion of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In a Day’s Work

    The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

    by Bernice Yeung ...
    Material:Paperback edition will include a new preface by the author that contextualizes the book since the emergence of #MeToo and #TimesUpMedia track record:HC edition garnered widespread attention and glowing reviews, including from including from the New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Bookforum, and Kirkus (starred review).FastCompany's "The 10 best books for battling your sexist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia

    Was it commonplace for free Blacks to own slaves in Virginia, prior to 1865? Professor John Henderson Russell (born 1884) has surprising answers in his short 12-page work titled "Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia," first published in 1916.In describing one motive for freed slaves to purchase other slaves, Russell writes:"During the last quarter of the eighteenth century slaveowners in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems

    A Guide to Progressive Discipline and Termination

    by Paul Falcone ...
    Whether you’re addressing an initial infraction or handling termination-worthy transgressions, you need to be 100 percent confident that every employee encounter is clear, fair, and most importantly, legal.Thankfully, HR expert Paul Falcone has provided this wide-ranging resource that explains in detail the disciplinary process and provides ready-to-use documents that eliminate stress and second ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Under the Bus

    How Working Women Are Being Run Over

    “Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So PoorFor women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and at least to some extent, conquered. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered system, where some working women have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The HR Toolkit: An Indispensable Resource for Being a Credible Activist

    by Denise Romano ...
    Resolve any HR issue in a snap!Solving office problems before they escalate marks the difference between success and failure for any HR professional. The HR Toolkit provides what you need to resolve every imaginable challenge—saving your company time and money.With a handy indexed listing of the most common workplace conflicts and solutions, The HR Toolkit offers simple, actionable techniques you ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Labor Relations in a Globalizing World

    Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Discrimination Laundering

    The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law

    While discrimination in the workplace is often perceived to be undertaken at the hands of individual or 'rogue' employees acting against the better interest of their employers, the truth is often the opposite: organizations are inciting discrimination through the work environments that they create. Worse, the law increasingly ignores this reality and exacerbates the problem. In this groundbreaking ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights

    Series series New Directions in the History of Education
    Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights–a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowland’s case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Making of an African Working Class

    Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana

    by Pnina Werbner ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of ... Read more

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  • Data Driven

    Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

    by Karen Levy ...
    A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Bankruptcy Law & Rights The Basic Guide of Chapter 7, 11 and 13

    The Basics of BankruptcyIn simple terms, bankruptcy can best be described as a federal process wherein you are allowed to close out all or some of your debt, and enables you (the debtor) to start off with a clean financial slate.Since bankruptcy is a legal process, you'll have to appear in court before a federal judge. During which, the judge, your creditors and yourself will come to an agreement ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus