The Book Company: New Products - Labor

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Productivity, Labor, and Policy)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:16:38 +0000

This book offers a rigorous but accessible economic map of the AI economy.

Price: $60.99

Digital Precarity (Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability)

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:19:49 +0000

Digital Precarity: Platform Power and Posthuman Vulnerability examines how precarity is reconfigured in the digital age through platform capitalism, algorithmic governance, and data extraction. It reveales digital precarity as a defining condition of contemporary mediated life.

Price: $61.99

Labor Pains (Stories from Inside America's New Union Movement)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:45:27 +0000

Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of r..

Price: $75.00

Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity (Life and Work on the Border)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:18:18 +0000

Through a series of interviews with workers in the automotive parts industry, Negotiating Risk argues that the restructuring of labour markets and welfare states, paired with firm-level work and management reorganization, has exposed working-class families to greater levels of job risk and insecur..

Price: $21.00

Labor Pains (Stories from Inside America's New Union Movement)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:45:31 +0000

Price: $17.95

Making Freelance Work (A Guide to Fair Freelancing in the Arts Sector)

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:46:40 +0000

Over 80% of practitioners in the UK arts sector work on a freelance basis. While freelancing offers scope for autonomy and creative freedom, it is also characterized by widespread precarity, low pay, long hours and systemic inequalities. Funding cuts and recent challenges have only intensified ..

Price: $29.95

Caught in Neutral (Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry)

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:43:18 +0000

Analysis of South Africa's automotive industry within global production networks, critiquing inconsistent industrial policies and highlighting worker's agency in shaping equitable labor conditions, and a just transition to electric vehicles.

Price: $35.00

Leading with Values (Gen Z, Trust, and Transformation in the Future of Business)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:27:37 +0000

“Leading with Values: Gen Z, Trust, and Transformation in the Future of Business” shows how organizations in Central and Eastern Europe are redefining management, markets, and consumer relationships through value-driven innovation. The book asks how Generation Z is reshaping work, leadership, and ..

Price: $98.00

Parsing the Emotional Waves of School Leadership

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:25:22 +0000

This book plunges you into the daily emotional landscape of school leaders as they navigate conflict, support struggling staff and students, and manage their own wellbeing. Through the voices and experiences of leaders themselves, you will witness how they harness emotional intelligence in practic..

Price: $94.00

Work Options for Older Americans

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:09:50 +0000

"While demographic forces make it inevitable that social institutions that encouraged workers to retire in their early sixties must change, this book shows that how we make these changes will have substantial implications for the risk of poverty and the general level of economic well-being of o..

Price: $45.00