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David Graeber's theory of the broken capitalist workforce is right - work has become an end in itself. A timely book from the most provocative anthropologist and thinker of our time. -- Owen Jones\u003cbr\u003eEqually explosive, my anarchist friend, David Graeber, yet again has thrown a hand grenade into the political economy debate with his Bullshit Jobs (Allen Lane), a call to strike out for freedom from meaningless work. -- John McDonnell * New Statesman, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eHere's a gift for a friend working in PR or HR. David Graeber's thesis is that they are working in\"bullshit jobs\". A bullshit job, he says, is one that its holder knows to be pointless or pernicious even though they must pretend otherwise. There are five sorts: flunkies (commissionaires, receptionists), goons (lobbyists, lawyers), duct tapers (who sort out problems others have created), box tickers, and taskmasters (management). It's a provocative case ... but you get the feeling he is on to something; there do seem to be a lot of pointless jobs in the modern economy -- Robbie Millen * The Times, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eAnthropologist David Graeber embarks on a provocative quest to find and explain the existence of countless mindless and pointless roles. He divides them into \"flunkies\", \"goons\", \"duct-tapers\", \"box-tickers\", and \"taskmasters\". It is an entertaining, if subjective study of a problem and an examination of potential answers, including a universal basic income. -- Andrew Hill * Financial Times, Business Book of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eAnthropology professor and colourful anarchist David Graeber has opened a Pandora's box of the modern era by questioning the relevance of the swollen ranks of middle management and bullshit jobs that have cropped up across a variety of industries. 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Nicolini has done a fantastic job pulling together a great resource that I only wish was available while finishing my doctoral studies. It will enable others to learn and apply theoretically and methodically the delicate intricacies of practice theories in organization studies. I would suggest it to be a key reading for any individual interested in the social behaviour of actors or applying practice theories to their work. * David Schreiber, Management Learning *\u003cbr\u003eNicolinis superb overview of practice theory offers original descriptions of different practice approaches and deftly sorts out this tangled theoretical terrain. The book innovates methodologically in illustrating the different approaches with the same case study, thereby nicely substantiating his thesis that empirical researchers best draw on practice theory by using different practice approaches in combination. The text is highly recommended to curious social scientists at large and not just to scholars of work and organization. * Theodore Schatzki, University of Kentucky *\u003cbr\u003eThis book has all the marks of Davide Nicolini's scholarship: theoretical depth and empirical subtlety. Several speak or write about the relevance of practice theory for the study of organizations, but few attempt to creatively link practice theory to particular philosophical traditions and social theory at large, and work out its theoretical-cum-methodological implications for organization studies. Nicolini is one of those few. If you are looking for a single book to do both things for you, namely to provide a sophisticated guide to practice theory and show how to conduct empirical research from a practice theory perspective, this is the book to read. Nicolini does a masterful job: he tells us what practice theory is, where it comes from, and how to put it to work in organization studies. 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And that makes reading it an excellent use of time. * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating data, revealing much about our lives in the 21st century * iNews *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732984869207,"sku":"9780241285565","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241285565.jpg?v=1719999164"},{"product_id":"wisdom-at-work-9780241367711","title":"Wisdom at Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''An engaging, timely exploration of how to bring more wisdom into our work lives'' Adam Grant, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOriginals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This is exactly what we need right now!'' 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In this marvellous book Chip Conley gives them a great answer - rewire don't retire. The Modern Elder is about combining a youthfulness in later life with the maturity and wisdom of experience * Andrew Scott, co-author of The 100 Year Life *\u003cbr\u003eThis is ultimately a book about how we can develop deeper connections, disrupt how we think about teaching and learning, and make more meaningful contributions in our lives and our careers. With stories, questions, and strategies, Chip shares his heart and wisdom on every page. This is exactly what we need right now! -- Brené Brown * Ph.D., LMSW, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Braving the Wilderness *\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging, timely exploration of how to bring more wisdom into our work lives. Chip Conley has lived it, and here he teaches you what it takes to find more of it -- Adam Grant * New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg *\u003cbr\u003eI love the idea that society needs more \u003ci\u003eModern Elders\u003c\/i\u003e who offer generosity without an agenda. Chip Conley's articulation of the growing need of wisdom and emotional intelligence in a world obsessed with speed and digital intelligence is spot-on! Every young company could use some \"wisdom insurance\" -- Marshall Goldsmith * Thinkers 50 World’s #1 Executive Coach, #6 Most Influential Business Thinker 2017 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWisdom at Work\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully illustrates the opportunity that each of us has to embark on an encore career. Bravo to Chip Conley for writing this timely and inspiring book. Having begun my third chapter at the age of 60, I can attest that this is the most productive and rewarding time of my life. 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These are some of the fundamental questions that Peter Lindert asks in his monumental Making Social Spending Work. Lindert's study of education, health care, old-age spending around the world could not have been more timely: these issues are again at the forefront of the political agenda.' Branko Milanovic, author of Capitalism, Alone\u003cbr\u003e'A must read for anyone interested in promoting just and sustainable growth. With pristine clarity, Lindert explains why social spending has risen everywhere. Using history and solid empirical evidence he debunks myths about negative effects and proposes new policies to facilitate inclusive growth and design a new social contract.' Nora Lustig, editor of Commitment to Equity Handbook\u003cbr\u003e'A magisterial examination of the historical, economic and political forces shaping the Welfare State, from its incipient beginnings in Fifteenth Century Europe to the rise of conditional cash transfers in Latin America in the 1990s. 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More recent classics are equally well chosen – I assign almost all of them in my graduate or undergraduate classes – and the extensive and engaging commentaries, in most cases by the original authors, represent valuable overviews in their own right. The papers in the final section likewise add value by reviewing research and developing theory on central fields of sociology to which the study of personal networks contributes. Personal Networks not only aggregates the main ideas in its area, it integrates them, defining a field and a research agenda. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone teaching a graduate or undergraduate course in social network analysis, a one-stop shopping experience for graduate students taking exams in this field, and a source of insight for any scholar working in this area.' Paul DiMaggio, NYU\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Background; Introduction; Part II. Early Foundations; 1. 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From White, Identity and Control: Commentary, 'On Parachutes and Lion-Taming'; Part III. Later Foundations; 8. From Fischer, To Dwell among Friends: Commentary, 'From the Northern California Community Study, 1977–78, to UCNets, 2015–20'; 9. From Granovetter, 'The Strength of Weak Ties': Commentary, 'Strength of Weak Ties in the Labor Market: An Assessment of the State of Research'; 10. From Wellman and Wortley, 'Different Strokes from Different Folks': Commentary, 'A Network Pilgrim's Progress: Twenty-Six Realizations in Fifty-Five Years'; 11. From Coleman, 'Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital': Commentary, 'Three Decades of Research into Social Capital: Achievements, Blind Spots, and Future Directions'; 12. From Pescosolido, 'Beyond Rational Choice': Commentary, 'Confronting How People Cope with Crisis: From the Social Organization Strategy Framework to the Network Episode Model to the Network Embedded Symbiome'; 13. 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The book introduces the reader to important recent developments in Marxist analysis such as the role of unpaid domestic labour in capitalism, the relation between capitalist exploitation and other forms of oppression, the transformation of capitalism in the neoliberal era since around 1980 and the increased part played by financial institutions in contemporary capitalism.' David Kotz, University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e'Basu's work ought to interest a wide audience among structuralist economists who acceptthe need to synthesize classical, Marxian and Keynesian traditions.' Thomas R. Michl, Review of Political Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 2. Some methodological issues; 3. Generation of surplus value; 4. Realisation of surplus value; 5. Distribution of surplus value; Part II. 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Gendered Organisations: Institutional Cultures, Divisions and Hierarchies 5. Material Yet Invisible: Housework and New Directions in Unpaid Labour 6. Unpaid Family Caring Labour and Work-Family Tensions: Love, Power and Overwork in Domestic Settings 7. Paid Care and Other Service Work: Commercialised Emotional and Embodied Labour in Contexts of Globalisation and Inequality 8. Conclusions: Maintaining Momentum 9. 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Firmly embedded in the latest research and the wider geopolitical environment, this new edition places OB in the context of climate change, the rise of unstable working conditions and the impact of new technologies. A strong suite of pedagogy supports student learning, demonstrating key theories in action and preparing readers for the real world of work. Cases and features illustrate contemporary organizational practices and their impact across the world, in a range of industries. With streamlined content, an improved structure, and an enhanced focus on leadership, \u003ci\u003eWork and Organizational Behaviour\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introducing contemporary organizational behaviour  2. Work and the gig economy  3. Studying work and organizations  4. Class, gender, race and equality  5. Personality and self-identity  6. Perception and emotions  7. Motivation  8. Learning  9. Group and team dynamics  10. 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In four case studies devoted to surrealism’s transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism’s profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, \u003ci\u003eSurrealist sabotage and the war on work \u003c\/i\u003ereveals that surrealism’s creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Most scholarly works on surrealism tend to ignore or minimize its strong political dimension, its radical anticapitalist attitude, its commitment to revolutionary human emancipation. This is not the case with this brilliant essay, which does not ignore the highly explosive, radical and subversive nature of the movement founded by André Breton in 1924.’\u003cbr\u003eMichael Löwy, \u003ci\u003eModernism\/Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Susik succeeds in eliciting tantalizing frictions around the relation of avant-garde movements to leftist politics.'\u003cbr\u003eKaegan Sparks, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To read Susik here is to enjoy the generosity of her stimulating and seditious theoretical thoughts. Her Surrealist fever-dream history of subversion as sex machine invites you into a contemplation of your intimate erotic life, put in relationship to its oppression — and to find within that oppression not despair, but insinuations of a secret saboteur.'\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Nechvatal, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eThe text is richly illustrated with examples from a broad range of media, supporting the author’s central focus on the efficacy and enduring relevance of surrealist art practice in critiquing the role of work in art and society.'\u003cbr\u003eSara Schumacher,\u003ci\u003e Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This original and enthralling work is not only indispensable for understanding the political and revolutionary core of surrealism but for rethinking strategies of resistance and creation in the present. 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Automatic writing emerges as a gendered subversion of the automation of the work place present in surrealist photography and in the eroticised imagery of the typewriter and the sewing machine. Surrealism can still inspire challenges to the nature and organisation of work in the information age.’\u003cbr\u003eAndreas A. Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Charting the rejection of the so-called “work ethic” by the surrealists in their theory and art, this groundbreaking study sheds new light on the activities of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, 1930s and 1960s, across two continents. Abigail Susik’s deeply impressive investigative scope, combined with precise attention to historical, social and economic context, yields new interpretations of a wide range of work-resistant, pleasure-principled, anarcho-Freudian forays into poetry, painting, photography and sculpture by surrealists, drawing upon a truly extraordinary range of scholarly sources. Mentored by theorists from Marx to Marcuse, surrealist techniques and imagery are revealed as instruments of the saboteur. Meanwhile, urgent questions that are so rarely broached today with the kind of clarity given them by workshy surrealists and their ultra-left allies – who works, for what, at what cost and why bother? – are raised on every page of this illuminating book, demonstrating that surrealism lives, loves and plays, but does not labour: yesterday, today and tomorrow.\u003cbr\u003e Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal\u003cbr\u003e2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage\u003cbr\u003eSimone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatist\u003cbr\u003eTracing stenographic surrealism and the \u003ci\u003edame dactylographe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePsychic automatism and feminisation\u003cbr\u003e3 Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism\u003cbr\u003e‘These phosphorescent youths’: Domínguez and surrealism, 1934–35\u003cbr\u003eDomínguez’s \u003ci\u003eMachine à coudre électro-sexuelle\u003c\/i\u003e (1934-35)\u003cbr\u003eOperating Maldoror’s vamp machine \u003cbr\u003eDysfunctional tools in Domínguez’s anti-work oeuvre\u003cbr\u003e4 Direct action surrealism in Chicago\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: activist avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e‘Incendiary time bomb’: \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel Worker\u003c\/i\u003e (1964–66)\u003cbr\u003eRobert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatism\u003cbr\u003eChicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principle\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: override dysfunctions and the ‘Klapheck computer’\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739926180183,"sku":"9781526169501","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526169501.jpg?v=1720053438"},{"product_id":"cant-even-how-millennials-became-the-burnout-generation-9781529112283","title":"Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow it's never enough?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes your job seep into your evenings and your home life creep into your work? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Does the bottom half of your To Do list feel unreachable?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is burnout and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough her own experience, original interviews and detailed analysis, Anne Helen Petersen traces the institutional and generational causes of burnout. 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If you are one of the millions who can't decide whether working-from-home is a pandemic silver lining or just another disaster, this book is for you. -- Robert Peston\u003cbr\u003eWork is being revolutionised before your eyes. Anyone who wants to understand what is going on-workers deciding how much time to spend in the office, managers wondering how to manage a blended workforce, CEOs worrying that their headquarters is becoming a white elephant - could do no better than to read \u003ci\u003eThe Nowhere Office\u003c\/i\u003e, a tour de force of insight, clarity and, something sadly lacking in debates on this subject, common sense\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e -- Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist, Bloomberg Opinion\u003cbr\u003eA masterfully even-handed and sensible appraisal of the future of work . . . a priceless injection of nuanced thinking and practical suggestions -- Rory Sutherland\u003cbr\u003eWe need big bold thinkers like Julia Hobsbawm right now more than ever\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e -- Polly Mackenzie, Chief Executive, Demos\u003cbr\u003eA masterwork. 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In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one’s spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNkosi takes as his starting point the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa, which came about as a result of startling rumours that potatoes dug out of the soil from the farms in the Bethal district of Mpumalanga were in fact human heads. Journalists such as Ruth First and Henry Nxumalo went to Bethal to uncover these stories and revealed horrific accounts of abuse and routine killings of farmworkers by white Afrikaners. The workers were disenfranchised Black people who were forced to work on these farms for alleged ‘crimes’ against National Party state laws, such as the failure to carry passbooks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn reading this violence from the perspectives of both the Black worker and the white farmer, Nkosi deploys the device of the eye to look at his research subjects and make sense of how the past informs the present. His argument is that the violence against Black farmworkers was not only on the exploitation of cheap labour, but also an anxiety white farmers felt about their settler-colonial appropriation of land. This anxiety, Nkosi argues, is pervasive in current heated public debates on the land question and calls for ‘land expropriation without compensation’. Furthermore, the dispossession of Black people from their land cannot be overcome until there is a recognition of the dead and restless spirits of the land, and a spiritual return to home for Black people’s ancestors. 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In particular, it offers a critical perspective on organisational behaviour and the sociology of work.\u003cp\u003eBy challenging common sense ideas about management, this textbook offers an up-to-date view of the complex problems and dilemmas facing managers and workers in the contemporary world. Providing a fresh analysis and overview of several core themes, the chapters focus on applied ethics, social issues, diversity, continuity and change. Theoretical reflections are combined with detailed ethnographic studies to offer both breadth and depth. Individual chapters present studies on issues as diverse as teleworking, apprentices, paternalism, migration, animal charities, factory work and farm work. 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The book will also be of interest to the general reader with an interest in developing a broader awareness of contemporary management.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This edited collection by Hamilton, Mitchell and Mangan displays wonderfully Keele's tradition of critical engagement with studies and practices of work, management and organizations. The contributions are well-written, philosophically sophisticated and empirically rich discussions of contemporary significant issues such as dignity, justice and truth at work. Students who want to go beyond management-speak and wish to learn more about the messy, contradictory, ambiguous and often dark nature of management as it is practised today will find in this book an inspiring, challenging and informative resource.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Alessia Contu, The University of Warwick, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Scholars at Keele Management School continue to deliver brilliant critical insights. This refreshing and innovative collection will challenge students and researchers alike to seriously rethink received wisdom on management and organisations.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Liz Parsons, University of Liverpool Management School, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'What do animals, alternative organizations and ambiguity have in common? This splendid collection provides a fascinating range of contemporary issues for the reader to chew on, and gives space for some critical voices to explore the messiness of work organizations.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Martin Parker, University of Leicester, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction  1. The Corruption of Business: A Statement of a Contemporary Problem Gordon Pearson  2. Ambiguity as Organisational Practice: An American Pragmatist Perspective Mihaela Kelemen  3. Dignity and Meaningful Work in Organisations Laura Mitchell  4. Is Paternalism Still Relevant? Changing Culture in a Mutual UK Insurance Company Darren McCabe and David Knights  5. Youth Employment, Masculinity and Policy Teresa Oultram  6. Hard Work, Productivity and the Management of the Farmed Environment in Anthropological Perspective Steven B. Emery  7. Disjointed, Degraded and Divided? 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Many books do not make that transition possible and the result is individuals, having been inspired by what they have read, cannot then put the theory into practice. The metaphor of habits (here, six restorative habits) offers a scaffolding to explore theory and, more importantly, apply it to the individual's context. Alongside the theoretical inputs, there are activities within each section of the book that will enable the reader to not only self-reflect, but also reflect about self within the organisation in which they might work. The use of supportive anecdotes, provided by a wide range of health staff, will also enable readers to get a feel for what developing and living with these habits is like.Parkinson says, 'I want this book to make a notable, positive difference to your daily workplace experience ... [regardless of your] role in healthcare.' I think this book can and will do that for those who read and apply its six restorative habits to their daily personal and professional lives.Chris Straker\u003cbr\u003eThose who work in the broad fields of restorative practice know that its applicability is limited only by our imaginations and opportunities. Lesley Parkinson has written a compelling, practical, easily digestible book about the application of restorative practice in healthcare. This book reflects her deep understanding of issues like voice, psychological safety and trust in workplace relationships, and implementation and support of this philosophy across teams. She has done the careful research needed to support her arguments, and offers the gift of naming, describing and using the six restorative habits (with examples from the field) so they can be embedded into unconscious competence, used daily in both professional and personal settings - moving the explicit into the implicit - to become 'how we do things around here'. The themes in this book have much greater application and would be helpful for anyone in any workplace.Margaret Thorsborne\u003cbr\u003eI was delighted to read this book. I think it is particularly apt that this practice has been shared within our trust, and especially now, when we have all recently had the most isolation, mentally and physically, from family and colleagues that many of us have ever experienced, due to the pandemic. The six habits are set out succinctly and clearly, and compassionately assess situations that may occur - with a clear aim for supportive resolution and improved healthcare.The circle meetings are a very welcome initiative after the necessity of endless TEAM meetings - a very practical way to break down barriers and work towards a psychologically safe and good culture.Here is a reference guide that any team member, whatever their role, would be glad to have nearby, and one that they can dip into for reminders and guidance.I think this publication is particularly relevant to the work we do as Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, where we can be faced with difficult and highly emotionally charged conversations that will benefit from a measured structure of restorative enquiry to ensure the psychological safety that is needed to make speaking up everyday practice.Heather Bruce\u003cbr\u003eI applaud Lesley Parkinson for wanting to help teams and individuals find a positive way to face the future. It can sometimes be a difficult task to inspire a jaded and overworked team to try something different. Working in a team, there is nothing more dispiriting or disheartening than when presenting an idea or concern, it is not then followed up or is treated with distain. The book provides great background research which proves that putting the work into providing the tools to restorative practice is worth the effort. Once a team has gelled together, sharing the same motivations and responsibilities, they will work better and look out for each other more. l like the moments set aside to think and add personal insights into the narrative. The mountain illustration gives a helpful insight, cleverly highlighting that if you are feeling good or bad, you act differently towards the people you are in contact with at any time - and them with you. This in turn defines how your interactions and relationships can be good or bad. The relational window makes each person think about the way they deal with everyday things with a better perspective, which helps managers work with the team better and makes the team members more amenable to assisting each other with any issues.In my opinion, the improvements that could be made by following these six habits - in a workplace setting and taken outside work into a personal setting - mean that this book is well worth your time.Janet Yeadon\u003cbr\u003eAs always, and as I have found out over many years of local government work, building and nurturing meaningful and sound relationships is the key to success and productivity - breaking down those behavioural barriers that colleagues build up at all levels of the organisation, through knowledge and the skilful application of sound restorative approaches. Sounds easy, but it takes some time to understand your own barriers, impact upon self of the work you undertake and how that impacts on others. This book, written in simple plain language for what is a vast psychological and behavioural minefield at times, helps the reader understand what a restorative approach is and how it can be applied to everyday occurrences and events, including in the workplace. Lesley deals mainly with NHS scenarios in this book, but this approach can be used in all workplace settings, at all levels, including working with children. When used and applied, the restorative principles (or habits) do change mindsets, reduce stressful and potentially harmful situations, and make working in a team or organisation happier and healthier for all - as well as ensure the best outcomes for a child and their family. It's seeing the behaviour or response and not applying it to the person as being wrong or deceitful, and always looking for the solution, that really counts - and works, as time has shown us! In local authorities, most will have a practice model that is strengths-based and family focused, as well as using a trauma-informed approach when working with children and their families - a restorative practice approach fits well with these models and applying the restorative principles creatively only enhances what are already tried, tested and research-rich ways of working.Irene Livingstone\u003cbr\u003eA much-needed insight into restorative practice in the world of healthcare, and how interactions in our teams every day make a tangible difference to the care and safety of patients. The tried-and-tested practical focus of this workbook will give readers the power to enact change themselves, and start to create real, lasting psychological safety with diverse teams, in every sense of the word. In a post-COVID-19 world where healthcare staff are experiencing high pressure and chronic burnout, Lesley's people-centred approach could revolutionise the way that we approach patient safety in the NHS. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and have no doubt that it will deliver huge impact to teams across the healthcare sector.Hannah Chandisingh\u003cbr\u003eRestorative Practice at Work is a thoughtful, reflective and highly practical guide to facilitating contentedness and effectiveness in the workplace. Drawing on insights from a range of theories and ideas, Lesley Parkinson provides an evidence-based set of six practices to be explored by individuals and teams. Complete with tools and real-life examples, the practices facilitate working through the nature of problems at work (for example, exploring thoughts, feelings and relationships), and finding solutions of benefit all round. The book will be of particular interest to those working in health and social care, but the foundations apply to all workplace settings.Anthony Kessel\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent read. It documents really well the improvement journeys and real experiences of the colleagues who have taken part and benefitted from the restorative practice pathway.Sarah Jones\u003cbr\u003eOrganisational leaders seeking better performance outcomes are increasingly paying attention to the social and relational aspects of change. Put simply, relationships matter. Lesley Parkinson's Restorative Practice at Work offers a timely and accessible guide to the why and how of developing better work-based relationships via six habits of restorative practice that ultimately foster better performance outcomes. 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Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer, realized by tapping into households' subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Andrea Komlosy argues in \u003ci\u003eWork: The Last 1,000 Years\u003c\/i\u003e, our conception of what constitutes work has changed markedly over time. 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By showing that \"work\" may exist without wages, a boss or a workplace outside the home, Komlosy's analysis allows us to think more broadly about what we value, and whether we want to continue to separate work and life. -- Joanna Scutts * In These Times *\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Komlosy has written an important book on the global history of work during the past 800 years. Looking at particular moments (1250, 1500, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2010), she charts how understandings of work and work practices have shifted-from household focused subsistence labor to the widespread commodification of labor in various forms. Her two most important contributions are that she thinks about labor on a global scale, thus overcoming a deep Eurocentric bias in much of the labor history as it exists, and that she brings feminist conversations on labor into an analysis of virtually all aspects of labor history. 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He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers' struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the very best books on the social consequences of technological change I have read, far more insightful than the technology books that get so much attention in the mainstream press.\" -- Tony Smith * Brooklyn Rail *\u003cbr\u003e\"In his book \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith offers a reality check to the effects of automation in an age of stagnated production and wages. . . . Workers usurped from administrative as well as industrial roles have recomposed themselves on behalf of service industries as a massively expanded, desiccated and low-paid servant class, the new 'precariat.' . . . Smith dials up his Marx to probe several fascinating and troubling effects of this current dynamic.\" * Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003e\"One thing that has puzzled academic economists is why, given the spread in recent years of IT, AI, and automation generally, productivity has hardly gone up. In \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith offers an explanation which also challenges those like Paul Mason who see a society of abundance and leisure as in the process of gradually evolving.\" * Socialist Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] vital guide . . . carefully charting how our economic system is unable to deliver further social progress.\" * Roar *\u003cbr\u003e\"To understand the future, we must first understand the present. In \u003ci\u003eSmart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSmith critically examines the rhetoric on automation, robots taking over jobs and a future without work in the context of a stagnating global economy. . . . Smith combines a detailed theoretical argumentation with rigorous empirical analysis to produce an enlightening explanation of the technological, economic, and social conditions that have shaped and continue to shape the world of work today. Overall, S\u003ci\u003emart Machines and Service Work\u003c\/i\u003e is targeted critique of today’s decontextualized automation rhetoric and an impressively broad analysis of the US economy and labor market.\" -- Sigurd M. N. Oppegaard * Journal of Extreme Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"A novel and persuasive explanation of why the technological advances of the computer age have been accompanied by a significant slowdown in productivity growth, with an increasing proportion of the labor force in low productivity—and low paid—service industries. This well-written book should be of interest to everyone who wants to understand—and end—the 'near depression' of the US economy.\" -- Fred Moseley, professor of economics, Mount Holyoke College, author of \"Money and Totality\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The technological advances of the last four decades have brought only insignificant productivity gains. This 'productivity paradox' remains an abiding mystery in mainstream economics. Smith removes the mystery, explaining how rates of investment, economic growth, and real wage increases have been abysmally low not despite capitalism's technological dynamism, but because of it. This important book should be read by anyone interested in the social consequences of technological change today.\" -- Tony Smith, professor of philosophy, Iowa State University, author of \"Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production\"","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741661638999,"sku":"9781789143188","price":15.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789143188.jpg?v=1720058330"},{"product_id":"dreamwork-why-all-work-is-imaginary-9781789147568","title":"Dreamwork: Why All Work Is Imaginary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might under some circumstances do for fun. All work is imaginary – which is not to say that it is simply illusory, but rather that, in order to count as work, it must be imagined to be work; so that a large part of what we mean by working is this work of imagining. Work is therefore essentially mystical – just the opposite of what it is taken to be. Dreamwork looks in turn at worries about whether or not work is hard; the importance of places of work; the meanings of hobbies, holidays and sabbaths; and the history of dreams of redeeming work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, with his inimitable flair for rooting out the phenomenological intricacies of apparently ordinary things, Steven Connor leads us on a tour of the dream factory of work, labour, toil and occupation. The result is a book of typically considerable – dare I say it – detective work that opens up the quotidian reality and enabling dreamscape of work to new understanding.' – Nathan Waddell, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Dreamworks 2 Hard Work 3 At Work 4 Off Work 5 Working Out References Index","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741669142871,"sku":"9781789147568","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789147568.jpg?v=1720058360"},{"product_id":"sdg12-sustainable-consumption-and-production-a-revolutionary-challenge-for-the-21st-century-9781789731026","title":"SDG12 - Sustainable Consumption and Production: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith chapters focusing on circular economies, product accounting systems, and sustainable procurement, this volume presents technical information in an accessible way and provides a much-needed overview of activity and approaches to achieving the development goal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors provide a thorough understanding of the history and effectiveness of SDG 12 by juxtaposing competing theories of sustainable production and consumption, from critics who advocate a “degrowth” agenda to explicitly neo- liberal approaches. 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Yet many of these changes remain poorly understood. This volume provides a sampling of state-of-the art theory and research in the field, and addresses a wide array of questions that are vital for managers, policy makers, labor unions, and employees themselves. How has new technology changed the job search process? How has the Great Recession affected racial boundaries within the labor market? What forms of managerial thinking underlie the proliferation of downsizing as a strategic practice? How have employees responded to labor market uncertainty? What shifts are unfolding within particular sectors, such as finance or health care? And how have norms been mobilized as a source of control over the performance of service work? 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A beautifully written call to arms to stop this miserable future before it comes for all of us -- Sarah Jaffe, author of \u003ci\u003eWork Won't Love You Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fast-paced and exciting read, Phil Jones explores the hidden abodes of the digital economy, where the world's surplus workers label images, moderate content, and teach algorithms how to identify common house pets, all for a few cents an hour. \/Work without the worker\/ explores how dispossessed microworkers might band together to spearhead a global movement for free-time and material security. -- Aaron Benanev, author of \u003ci\u003eAutomation and the Future of Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes readers to the hidden abode of production of artificial intelligence: a world of precarious, highly exploited, and onerous microwork increasingly performed in the slums, prisons, and refugee camps of sclerotic post-crisis capitalism. With an incandescent urgency, Jones argues that such digitally fragmented piecework threatens livelihoods of all sorts, but also that it offers a tantalizing potential for a world beyond wage labor -- if we can fight for it. -- Gavin Mueller, author of \u003ci\u003eBreaking Things at Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Phil Jones] establishes himself as a leading figure in what might be called post-accelerationism. -- John Foster * The Battleground *\u003cbr\u003eStriking ... 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