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The living wage: advancing a global movement

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"As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and-most importantly-those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is r…

Farewell to work?: essays on the world of work's metamorphoses and c…

by Antunes, Ricardo

fromStudies in critical social sciences

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"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 working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is that in…

Farewell to work?: essays on the world of work's metamorphoses and c…

by Antunes, Ricardo

fromStudies in critical social sciences

0 Type: Book

"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 working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is that in…

A global history of runaways: workers, mobility, and capitalism : 1600-1850

by Rediker, Marcus

fromThe California world history library

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"During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds--slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors--repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus …

The profit paradox: how thriving firms threaten the future of work

by Eeckhout, Jan

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"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…

The profit paradox: how thriving firms threaten the future of work

by Eeckhout, Jan

0 Type: Book

"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…

The profit paradox: how thriving firms threaten the future of work

by Eeckhout, Jan

0 Type: Book

"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…

The profit paradox: how thriving firms threaten the future of work

by Eeckhout, Jan

0 Type: Book

"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…