Industrial relations, occupational health and safe Books

Health and safety in the workplace
Industrial arbitration and negotiation
Trade unions
Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • Labor and Monopoly Capital Labor and Monopoly Capital
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Labor and Monopoly Capital

    This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital...
    $45.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Chainsaw Operator's Manual
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Chainsaw Operator's Manual

    The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Total Ethics Fashion
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Total Ethics Fashion

    Total ethics fashion: People, our fellow animals and the planet before profit is a deep dive into supply chain issues associated with fashion around the globe. 'Sustainable' and 'ethical' fashion have a problem: they've become marketing buzzwords rather...
    $17.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    I, Millennial
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    I, Millennial

    ‘A damn hilarious read.’ Nazeem Hussain‘A true barbarian.’ Andrew BoltOur world is in chaos lol. And no, Australian Millennials, it’s not your imagination: things are especially f**ked for us.Millions of Baby Boomers got beach houses, free education,...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Dreamwork
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dreamwork

    Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Bootleg Coal Rebellion
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Bootleg Coal Rebellion

    Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal...
    RRP: $44.99
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Milked
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Milked

    A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them100% DemocracyWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardIn the Midwest, Mexican workers...
    RRP: $44.99
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Capital Accumulation and Migration

    Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development in general, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation itself. Capital Accumulation and Migration...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Labor Rgime Change in the Twenty-First Century

    Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations that see unfree labor as incompatible with capitalism...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark

    Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Lwy's essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Power Lines
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Power Lines

    The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a "jobs vs. the...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Environmentalism from Below
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Environmentalism from Below

    A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities - among the most...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism

    An essential record from the Second International, assembled by Under the Socialist Banner. At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the revolutionary goal of...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Mr. Block
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Mr. Block

    Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe.A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Comedy Against Work
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Comedy Against Work

    Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is 'reason gone mad.' For Walter Benjamin, laughter was 'the most revolutionary emotion.' In a moment when great numbers of people are...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Smart Machines and Service Work
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Smart Machines and Service Work

    A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's livesIn recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development,...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Henry at Work
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Henry at Work

    Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Radium Girls
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Radium Girls

    'Compelling, inspiring, and radiant.' -FOREWORD "Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Will keep readers engaged in these women's stories from the first...
    RRP: $27.99
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Privatized Planet
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Privatized Planet

    President Trump has torn up the TTIP and TPP. Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Does this means that corporate globalisation is in retreat? Privatized Planet exposes the truth about 'free trade' in this new era of...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Blacklisted

    In this fully updated new edition, the authors lift the lid on blacklisting. They detail the historic court victory for construction workers in the UK and the ongoing Pitchford public inquiry into undercover policing. It links developments in the UK with...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Green Bans, Red Union
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Green Bans, Red Union

    Revised edition of a landmark bookAt the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Always Red
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Always Red

    "Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty. What emerges is a hard-hitting assessment of dramatic times, and a message of hope for the future." -Jeremy CorbynLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the...
    RRP: $39.99
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Moderate Bolshevik
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Moderate Bolshevik

    Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the early Soviet Union.This first English-language biography of Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy...
    RRP: $62.99
    $61.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Co-operative Struggles
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Co-operative Struggles

    In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Farewell to Work?
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Farewell to Work?

    Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s-a process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale. This...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital

    A much-needed, Marxist economic account of service and retail work, as well as the political alternatives.In Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital, Fabian van Onzen uses Marxist theory to analyse the process by which service and retail workers...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Weight of the Printed Word
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Weight of the Printed Word

    In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers'...
    RRP: $64.99
    $63.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    State Transformations
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    State Transformations

    It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central place in the study of comparative politics in the 1980s. Ironically, this shift occurred just as neoliberal policies were transforming the social form...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

    This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and...
    RRP: $75.00
    $72.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Intellectual and Manual Labour
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Intellectual and Manual Labour

    A key contribution to post-war Marxist thinking, finally back in print.Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the central figures of the Frankfurt School, with...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks

    Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellectuals of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of...
    RRP: $64.99
    $63.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    How Labour Built Neoliberalism
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    How Labour Built Neoliberalism

    In this timely and controversial treatment of the Australian labour movement, Humphrys examines the role of the Labour Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia.Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre...
    RRP: $49.99
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Growth Deficit
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Growth Deficit

    During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as "secular decline." On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States enjoyed a robust recovery...
    $17.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Bad News
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Bad News

    "...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."-Michael Lind, author ofThe New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite Something is wrong with...
    RRP: $52.99
    $51.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Digital Cathedrals

    We are now witnessing the build-out of society's first foundationally new infrastructure in nearly a century: the Cloud. It is an ecosystem of information-digital hardware, at the heart of which resides massive warehouse-scale datacenters unlike anything...
    $15.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    White Working Class
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    White Working Class

    It's time to understand what so many people don't get about the Working Class...Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite-journalists, managers, and establishment...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Working It
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Working It

    Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Revolutionary Affinities
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Revolutionary Affinities

    A sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and unbreakable alliances, Revolutionary Affinities takes readers from the Paris Commune to the Occupy movement, and through the heart of bloody fratricidal struggles to paint a vivid picture of the greatest...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Fighting Times
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Fighting Times

    Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors...
    RRP: $44.99
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Working Class History
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Working Class History

    History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals-it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought back...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Joe Hill
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Joe Hill

    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies-songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr-Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture...
    RRP: $54.99
    $53.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Worn Out
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Worn Out

    An insider's look at how the rise of "fast fashion" obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers.'With years of expertise in the fashion industry, Alyssa's reporting is consistently deep and thoughtful, and her...
    RRP: $44.99
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Out of Sight

    When jobs can move anywhere in the world, bosses have no incentive to protect either their workers or the environment. Work moves seamlessly across national boundaries, yet the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior remain tied to national...
    RRP: $47.99
    $47.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Women and the American Labor Movement

    This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women's struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labor movement follows the triumphs and set backs of this fight from the early Colonial labor associations to the late twentieth century...
    RRP: $44.99
    $44.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added

Industrial relations, occupational health and safety