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Free Download Maryanne Dever, Lisa Adkins, "Gender and Labour in New Times"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367023776 | EPUB | pages: 106 | 0.2 mb
This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of economization, and emergent regulatory strategies are reconfiguring labour and life in post-Fordism and summoning new forms of ‘women’s work’. Contributors also map how these same processes are repositioning feminism, especially feminism as a mode of critique. Feminism here stands not in an external relation to the objects and matters it seeks to critique but as implicated in those very objects. In mapping this terrain Gender and Labour in New Times opens out new feminist research agendas for the study of the post-Fordist labour and the modes of regulation that post-Fordism as a regime of capital accumulation entails. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Studies.

Free Download Sigrid Wadauer, "The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centurie"
English | ISBN: 1782385509 | 2015 | 444 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors explore how looking for work becomes a means by which participants (individuals, placement agents, trade unions, municipalities, administrations, state authorities, and schools) articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. Taking an exploratory approach, the chapters illustrate different approaches to the history of employment and job searching, ranging from organizational and regulatory histories to the analysis of practices and autobiographical accounts. In the process, they uncover the interrelations of search practices and attempts to arrange placement services.

Free Download Gabrielle Targett, "A Labour of Love: a guide to natural childbirth without fear"
English | ISBN: 0975781804 | 2005 | 288 pages | EPUB | 463 KB
This is a must-read book if you want to create an empowered, positive and calm birth that teaches you how to surrender, breathe and focus within, where fear has no place to be. Full of birth wisdom and experience of having three water births, and attending over 450 births over 25 years, author Gabrielle Targett offers tips, techniques, education and stories from real women whom she assisted to birth in an empowered way. This book also focuses on educating your partner and birth support people on how to support you 100%.

Free Download Matthew Johnson, "Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138803200, 0367739518 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.4 mb
In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the revolutionary potential to change the world: the precariat. This, according to Standing, is ‘a class-in-the-making, internally divided into angry and bitter factions’ consisting of ‘a multitude of insecure people, living bits-and-pieces lives, in and out of short-term jobs, without a narrative of occupational development, including millions of frustrated educated youth…, millions of women abused in oppressive labour, growing numbers of criminalised tagged for life, millions being categorised as "disabled" and migrants in their hundreds of millions around the world. They are denizens; they have a more restricted range of social, cultural, political and economic rights than citizens around them’. This present book explores the nature, shape and context of precariat, evaluating the internal consistency and applications of the concept. Demonstrating the sheer breadth and depth of application, the chapters cover a wide-range of topics, from the relationships between precariat and authoritarianism, multitude (another concept to achieve popular consciousness), and place as well as the nature of precarious identities and subjectivities among those working in immaterial labour. The book concludes with a reply by Standing to reviews of Precariat.

Free Download Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese "
English | ISBN: 3031672127 | 2024 | 324 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fiction in Portuguese under the prism of the economization of cultural creativity and the expansion of neoliberal understanding of creative subjectivity and self-realization. Assuming that neoliberalism still constitutes a haunting presence that becomes present in ways that are far from universal and homogeneous and that are shaped by coloniality, this book expands the debates on cultural labour and literary materialisms beyond European and North American contexts. Dealing with contemporary literary production from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Macau, Canada and Goa, the volume also tries to reimagine issues of cultural labour and the expansion of artistic modes of self-definition from the point of view of contemporary literary production in Portuguese.

Free Download The People’s Struggle: The History of the Labour Party and the Socialist Movement by Prof. Stephen W. Bradeley BSc (Hons)
English | July 14, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CBXXCVY2 | 144 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb
The Importance of Understanding the History of the Labour Party and the Socialist Movement!

Free Download Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese
by Carlos Garrido Castellano
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031672127 | 318 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB

Free Download Mary Hilson, "Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star: The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000 "
English | ISBN: 1785334964 | 2017 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called "Nordic model" can obscure the fact that experiences of work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here represent an ambitious intervention in labour historiography and European history, exploring themes such as work, unions, politics and migration from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Free Download How Labour Wins
by Beattie, Douglas;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1783968346 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 7.64 MB

Free Download A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left
by Simon Hannah, Nadia Whittome
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0745345581 | 260 Pages | PDF | 3.05 MB