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  • 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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women's Work

    The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing

    by Susan L. Engh ...
    In Women’s Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan L. Engh draws on her own experiences and those of twenty-one other women who work in the field of faith-based community organizing to describe how women have been transformed by their participation in organizing, and how they have been agents of transformation in congregations, denominations, organizations, and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Worker Center Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement

    by Kim Bobo, Marien Casillas Pabellon ...
    Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of these centers struggle as they try to raise funds, maintain stable staff, and build a membership base. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration

    by Marie T. Friedmann Marquardt, Gemma Tulud Cruz, Ogenga Otunnu, Marianne Heimbach-Steins, Marco Tavanti, Moses Pava, Azam Nizamuddin, Kim Bobo, Sioban Albiol, Frida Kerner Furman, Rev. John M. Fife, Craig B. Mousin ...
    Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration examines the complicated social ethics of migration in today’s world. Editors Elizabeth W. Collier and Charles R. Strain bring the perspectives of an international group of scholars toward a theory of justice and ethical understanding for the nearly two hundred million migrants who have left their homes seeking asylum from political ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Demographic Cliff

    How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019

    by Harry S. Dent Jr. ...
    Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of desperate stimulus — and what to do about it nowThroughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying the predictable things people do as they age is the ultimate tool for understanding trends. For instance, Dent can ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...
    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Precariat

    The New Dangerous Class

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    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

    $12.99 USD

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  • Workforce Planning and Scheduling. Automated Staff Shifts Management and Rostering

    by Isabella Longobardi ...
    Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees.In order to be efficient, anyone who has the task of planning the ... Read more

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  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series 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

    $21.59 USD

  • The Wages of Relief

    Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39

    by Eric Strikwerda ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Raising the Floor

    How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

    by Andy Stern ...
    Raising the Floor confronts America's biggest economic challenge-the fundamental restructuring of the economy and the emerging disruptive technology that threaten secure jobs and income. Andy Stern convincingly shows why it is time to consider a universal basic income as the nation's twenty-first-century solution to increasing inequality.In 2010, troubled by watching families chase the now-elusive ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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