Unemployment Books


Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Best Price: $1.00 I will start this off by saying I loved "Nickeled and Dimed". I worked in low-end...	With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today Best Price: $19.75 I'm not sure how I even came across this book but what a wonderful find. This book illustrates...	Ultimate Guide to Workers' Compensation Insurance (Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Books) Best Price: $13.05 Comprehensive and to the point, this is an excellent resource if you need to learn about NY...	Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor Best Price: $3.45 This soft-cover book is written like a children's textbook, but Hine's photos look great all...	Multicultural and Diversity Strategies for the Fire Service (Brady Fire) Best Price: $31.72



Women and the Criminal Justice System (2nd Edition) Best Price: $42.83 Yet another waste of text. The same old vitim plight of the poor poor female in our modern...	Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class Best Price: $7.95 In "Race Rebels," Robin D.G. Kelley explores the social history of cultural and...	Women at Work Best Price: $51.18 Extremely thoughtful and extensive research on women's reality in today's business environment....	Workforce 2020 : Work and Workers in the 21st Century Best Price: $14.00 This book describes the future workforce to policy makers. It gives individuals making career...	The Seed Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business Best Price: $4.95 This is a great book for anyone starting a business. I have had a consulting business for 2...



Making Diversity Work: 7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace Best Price: $12.06 Step-by-step strategies to make your business more competitive and productive. Workplaces are...	Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs Best Price: $1.99 Bridges argues that you must make yourself relevant to the changing economy by managing your...	Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It Best Price: $19.95 This is a timely, must-have book for anyone who cares about reducing the level of poverty in our...	The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families Best Price: $7.95 Although in the blurb on the front of this book, Barbara Ehrenreich says she wishes she'd...	The End of Work Best Price: $1.89 A must read. Written back in the 90s but arguably more relevant today than it was back then....

Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas Best Price: $3.93 Dobbs demonstrates a total waste of a Harvard education. Never says anything difinitive -- just...	Igniting Gen B and Gen V: The New Rules of Engagement for Boomers, Veterans, and Other Long-Termers on the Job Best Price: $6.99 Longtime employees heading for retirement are cutting back hours, declining promotions and...	Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy Best Price: $10.00 Yates' book "Naming the System" is a valiant attempt to explain the failures,...	The Disposable Work Force: Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America (Social Institutions and Social Change) Best Price: $16.50 Drawing upon a case study of a plant closing in Wisconsin and the results of national labor...	Firing Back: Power Strategies for Cutting the Best Deal When You're About to Lose Your Job Best Price: $4.00 FIRING BACK is extraordinarily well-written and is a great development tool even if your job is...

The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy Best Price: $19.49 This book is fascinating. You learn a lot on the labor market and it is really easy to read.	Hard-Hatted Women: Life on the Job Best Price: $8.92	Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century Best Price: $32.85 This was the first book read by me exclusively on immigration and a multi-faceted discussion on...	Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic Best Price: $27.81 I have to modify significantly the previous reviewer's take on this book. Boydston does not...	Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence Best Price: $7.43 Newman starts with a great topic. Downward mobility is a subject that not only isn't discussed...

Getting Fired: What to Do if You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign Too many people are completely ignorant of their rights in general. Employment law is no...	Genius and Eminence (International Series in Experimental Social Psychology) Best Price: $35.42 A fascinating introduction to the research into, and theories, of exceptional achievement....	Job Strategies for People w/Disabilities	Immigration and Opportuntity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States Best Price: $19.99	A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States Best Price: $5.50 In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the...

High-Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor Best Price: $25.95 This work illustrates a particular culture of oppression at a high-tech company. The author...	Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices (Collection on Technology and Work) Best Price: $4.99 I work for a Tech company in Silicon Valley. It's been about 10 years since this book was...	Why So Slow?: The Advancement of Women Best Price: $25.00 "Why So Slow" is the most useful book I've ever read on gender issues. It is packed...	Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (Cornell Paperbacks) Best Price: $34.36	How to Find Work in the 21st Century Best Price: $19.99 2007 Edition Now Available! Currently In Use at Over 200 Colleges, Universities and...

Keys to the Workplace: Skills and Supports for People With Disabilities	Time Off! The Unemployed Guide to San Francisco (Time Off! the Unemployed Guide to...) Best Price: $17.75 Escaping unscathed from the dot-com fallout, Dean LaTourrette and Kristine Enea have taken a cue...	Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It Best Price: $15.45 My partner of more than half a decade and I, want to have children, but he is also facing the...	The Economics of Women, Men, and Work (4th Edition) Best Price: $50.00 This book is an overview of how gender and race play into neo-classical economic theory. The...	Responsible Restructuring: Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs Best Price: $11.33 Too many companies respond to a downturn in profits with layoffs, without properly thinking...

The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation (Issues in Work and Human Resources) Best Price: $84.56	Unpacking Globalization: Markets, Gender, and Work Best Price: $37.99 Unpacking Globalization offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as...	Putting Faith in Partnerships: Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities (Contemporary Political and Social Issues) Best Price: $26.60 The first major work to examine welfare-to-work programs and their implications for public policy	When Work Doesn't Work Anymore: Women,Work and Identity Best Price: $2.44	Social Justice for Women: The International Labor Organization and Women (Duke Press Policy Studies) Best Price: $25.49 The International Labor Organization (ILO), founded in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference, was...

Divided We Stand Best Price: $19.90 Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above...	Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (Women in Culture and Society Series) Best Price: $12.04 Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie , Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case...	Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews	America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present _America's Working Women_ is a magnificient and thorough anthology of the female experience in...	Tenure, Discrimination, and the Courts (ILR Press Books) Best Price: $17.99 Revised and updated, the new edition of Tenure, Discrimination and the Courts provides a lucid...

Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 Best Price: $11.95	The Economics of the European Union: Policy and Analysis Best Price: $47.99 This is one of the classic text in the area. It covers most of the main policy areas in a series...	Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984	Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics and the Great Migration (Kodansha Globe Series) Best Price: $39.82 This book is a wonderful account of how African-American women made it at the turn of the...	The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment Best Price: $26.60 This book provides an accessible, balanced account of the insider-outsider theory of labor...

GuerrillaTactics For the New Job Market (Bantam Business Books) Best Price: $41.99 This book is the best book I have ever read on the skill of job hunting and ever since I bought...	Inflation and Unemployment in a Monetary Union Best Price: $129.00 This book studies the coexistence of inflation and unemployment in a monetary union. The focus...	Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader (Critical Black Studies) Best Price: $15.00 African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and...	Finding Work Without Losing Heart: Bouncing Back from Mid-Career Job Loss Best Price: $3.38 This book speaks directly to the 3 real impediments so many dedicated professionals face when...	Unemployment in Europe: Proceedings of a Conference Held by Confederation of European Economic Associations, Vienna, Austria (Confederation of European Economic Associations Conference Volumes) Best Price: $7.00 Leading scholars from across Europe discuss the question of unemployment in Europe, dealing with...

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