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The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

By Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern School of Business)

The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England

By Michael Twaddle (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)

From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925

By Frederick Cooper

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

By Schon, Donald A.

The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

By Professor Robert Dingwall

Work Issues

By Craig Donnellan

The Early Railways

By S.M. Harrison

Why Some People Are More Unemployed than Others

By Goeran Therborn

The Nature of Work

By Paul Thompson

Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States

By David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards, Michael Reich

Food at work: workplace solutions for malnutrition, obesity and chronic diseases

By Christopher Wanjek, International Labour Office

Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry

By Charles F. Sabel

Between Labour and Capital

By Walker, P.

The New Working Class?: White-Collar Workers and their Organizations- A Reader

By Richard Hyman, Robert Price

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

By Mike Dent (University of Staffordshire, UK), Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Jean-Louis Denis (Ecole Nationale d'Administration Publique, Canada), Tracey Adams

Sociology, Work and Organisation

By Tony Watson (University of Nottingham, UK)

Be Safe!

Work-Life Balance: A Practical Guide for Teachers

By Margaret Adams

Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution

By Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny

It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work

By Remi Adekoya

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards: An Indexed Guide to Published Data

By Bretherick, L., Urben, Peter

Shelter Provision and Employment Generation

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe

By Tindara Addabbo, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Alastair Owens

Hazardous Chemicals Handbook

By P A CARSON

Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism

By Anne Alstott, Bruce Ackerman, Philippe Van Parijs, Barbara Bergmann, Carole Pateman

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

By Richard Sennett (New York University)

Work in Towns, 850-1850

By P.J. Corfield, D. Keene

The Exploited Child

By Bernard Schlemmer

Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power

By Tom Bower

Striving for Better Jobs: The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa

By Karol W. Weaver, Diego Angel-Urdinola, Joana Silva, Andras Bodor