Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Picador $15.00
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better...
The Coming Jobs War by Gallup Press $24.95
Drawing on 75 years of Gallup studies and his own perspective as the company’s chairman and CEO, Jim Clifton explains why jobs are the new global currency for leaders. More than peace or money or any other good, the business, government, military, city, and village leaders who can create good jobs will own the future.The problem is that leaders don’t know how to create jobs especially in...
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Penguin (Non-Classics) $15.00
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author...
Best Kept Secrets of Successful Managers by Whitmore Publishing $9.99
What’s the top way to motivate employees? How do you deal with unacceptable employee performance? What are the best management concepts? As a manager, what is the best way to reduce stress in the workplace?Management and leadership expert Hal E. Pitt shares the answers to these tough questions, and many more, in Best Kept Secrets of Successful Managers. The concepts and strategies presented in...
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Collected works of Keynes) by Paul Krugman $40.00
In 1936 Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946 and still continue today. This new edition, published 70 years after the original, features a new introduction by Paul Krugman which discusses the significance and continued relevance of The General Theory.
The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Acculant Publishing $3.95
What will the economy of the future look like?Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead?Is it possible that accelerating computer technology was a primary cause of the current global economic crisis—and that even more disruptive impacts lie ahead?This groundbreaking book by a Silicon Valley computer engineer and entrepreneur explores these questions and...
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by Grove Press $15.00
On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146—123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history...
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Picador $30.00
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating,...
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by The New Press $16.95
Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.... In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller,...