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  • Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour

    Men of the Home

    by Ester Gallo, Francesca Scrinzi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Why We Work

    by Barry Schwartz ...
    Series series TED Books
    An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • White Working Class

    Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

    by Joan C. Williams ...
    "I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save AmericaAn Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Buying Time

    The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller, David Fernbach ...
    The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding as to precisely what is happening and how it started.In this new edition of a highly acclaimed book, Wolfgang Streeck revisits his recent arguments in the light of Brexit and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Outsourcing Economics

    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    by William Milberg, Deborah Winkler ...
    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Capitalism Unleashed

    Finance, Globalization, and Welfare

    by The Late Andrew Glyn ...
    Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change, Capitalism has emerged as the dominant ideology and model for economic growth in the richest, most developed countries. But only thirty years ago economic growth was faltering, inflation rising and the Left were arguing for ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    by Jamie K. McCallum ...
    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Phone Clones

    Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

    by Kiran Mirchandani ...
    Transnational customer service workers are an emerging touchstone of globalization given their location at the intersecting borders of identity, class, nation, and production. Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires voice-to-voice conversation with distant customers; part of the product being exchanged in these interactions is a responsive, caring, connected self. In Phone ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Nice Work If You Can Get It

    Life and Labor in Precarious Times

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Series Book 8 - NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis
    2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global developmentIs job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

    by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The International Political Economy of Work and Employability

    by P. Moore ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD