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Communities are facing increasing and contrasting problems, with high levels of unemployment or conflict arising from suburbanisation and the arrival of newcomers. This book provides a strategic framework for dealing with these issues, with a model for planning and practising rural community work.

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Explores the phenomenon of the 'great resignation' and the change in work culture underpinning the new refusal of work.

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Scotland is closely tied to climate change and fossil capitalism, having played a pivotal role in its spread. Journalist Dominic Hinde travels between its Highlands, islands and cities, drawing parallels between his personal recovery and the uncertain transition from fossil fuels. He asks: can past lessons guide a sustainable future

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This is a book about what it is like to live and work with 'the canon' and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write 'with' the canon and what is at stake if you don't, can't, or won't

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In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. Drawing on the notion that "perplexing situations" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, this title argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.

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'Nickled and Dimed for the Amazon age,' (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor

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How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work

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An hilarious and terrifying expose of the brave new world of work, explaining why it has all gone wrong and how we can regain our dignity.

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John Berger introduces a new edition of his seminal study of migrant workers, illustrated by photographer Jean Mohr.

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For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many professionals whose role is critical to whatever enterprise they're a part of - it's the opposite: the better they do their jobs the more they disappear. This book shows us how of superstar CEOs and assorted varieties of genius, are fine with remaining anonymous.

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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of a college-educated young professional who finds work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly labour.

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Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well This book offers an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living.

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Explores the phenomenon of the 'great resignation' and the change in work culture underpinning the new refusal of work.

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New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

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World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface

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Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

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Takes a close look at the working lives and attitudes of domestic workers in modern Australia. The book examines a great diversity of experiences in the domestic services industry, mainly through interviews with many participants, both employers and employed.

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How is it that labour has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society The book provides a systematic analysis of the role of labour in the processes of capitalist production and the establishment of capitalist legal and social institutions.