The Book Company: New Products - Labor & Industrial Relations

Film festival programming as precarious labour (Conditions, experiences, and solutions)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:36:37 +0000

Film festival programmers are vital to the success of film festivals around the world and to the championing of new filmmaking talent. Yet their work often remains invisible and their labour precarious. This book examines in depth the lived experiences of film festival programmers working across t..

Price: $130.00

Burning Money (How Public Employee Unions Made Government Unmanageable)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:28:35 +0000

What happens when managers no longer have the authority to manage? When managers can’t terminate an employee who is inept? When they can’t assign the best employees to a hard task? Or when they can’t consolidate near-empty facilities? Any business would soon fail.

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Price: $12.99

Organise, Educate, Control (The AMWU in Australia, 1852-2012)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:27:01 +0000

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, or AMWU, today a large and complex organisation, can trace its origins to the earliest years of Australian trade unionism and the first meeting of Sydney’s Amalgamated Society of Engineers, held in 1852 on the immigrant vessel Frances Walker in Sydney Ha..

Price: $29.95

Informal Work in Europe, ca. 1870-1970

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:33:15 +0000

Formalized wage labor is often presented as the focus, if not the very core, of modern European labor history. The current volume challenges this widespread narrative by focusing on multiple forms of informal work in all parts of Europe.

Price: $175.00

The Dynamics of Industrial Relations (Text and Cases)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:34:35 +0000

This volume examines contemporary industrial relations through the lens of evolving employer–employee dynamics in modern workplaces. It integrates theoretical frameworks with practical applications, exploring labour market mechanisms and industrial relations management within legislative and ma..

Price: $60.99

Revolution and Progress (The Hidden Origins of Design)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:28:50 +0000

A highly original study of design that looks at its beginning through the labor, materials, and the techniques that produce it.

Revolution and Progress radically reorients the study of design, revealing its decisive origins within social histories of production. Stripping desi..

Price: $75.00

Labour, Climate Policies and Just Transitions (Global Challenges for Unions)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:10:35 +0000

Climate change mitigation policies will transform industries, labour markets and societies worldwide, but who will stand to gain and who will lose? This book examines how unions and other global actors navigate tensions between advancing climate action and protecting workers’ interests.

Price: $41.95

Collective Bargaining and Gender Equality

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:29:11 +0000

Collective bargaining has been a major force in delivering social justice and decent work in the workplace. However, the role of collective bargaining in achieving gender equality in the workplace is relatively under-researched.

In this book, Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour investigate the ..

Price: $39.95

Labour Regimes and Global Production

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:20:55 +0000

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and reproduction. The conc..

Price: $39.95

The Handbook of Labour Unions

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:15:54 +0000

Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the world’s largest representative organizations and continue to play a significant rol..

Price: $44.95