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Hospital medical and dental staff (England and Wales) : terms and conditions of service.

Jobhunting for people with disabilities / Dept. of Employment, Employment Service Agency.

Occupational misfits : a comparative study of north London boys employed and unemployed / by Sheila Bevington ; with a foreword by Charles S. Myers.

Academic environment : a handbook for evaluating employment opportunities in science / Karl W. Lanks.

Drug misuse and the workplace : a guide for employers / Employment Department Group.

49 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

What employers should know about HIV and AIDS / The Society of Occupational Medicine.

<p>In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or inevitable activity. Weeks argues that in taking work as a given, we have "depoliticized" it, or removed it from the realm of political critique. Employment is now largely privatized, and work-based activism in the United States has atrophied. We have accepted waged work as the primary mechanism for income distribution, as an ethical obligation, and as a means of defining ourselves and others as social and political subjects. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative rather than relentlessly bound to the employment relation. Work, she contends, is a legitimate, even crucial, subject for political theory. --- Book Description.</p>

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The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries / Kathi Weeks.

Youth in British industry : a survey of labour conditions to-day / by John Gollan.

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Child life and labour / by Margaret Alden.

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London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.

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Jobhunting for people with disabilities / Dept. of Employment, Employment Service Agency.

Occupational misfits : a comparative study of north London boys employed and unemployed / by Sheila Bevington ; with a foreword by Charles S. Myers.

Academic environment : a handbook for evaluating employment opportunities in science / Karl W. Lanks.

Drug misuse and the workplace : a guide for employers / Employment Department Group.

What employers should know about HIV and AIDS / The Society of Occupational Medicine.

The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries / Kathi Weeks.

Youth in British industry : a survey of labour conditions to-day / by John Gollan.

Child life and labour / by Margaret Alden.

London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.

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Academic environment : a handbook for evaluating employment opportunities in science / Karl W. Lanks.

Drug misuse and the workplace : a guide for employers / Employment Department Group.

What employers should know about HIV and AIDS / The Society of Occupational Medicine.

The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries / Kathi Weeks.

Youth in British industry : a survey of labour conditions to-day / by John Gollan.

Child life and labour / by Margaret Alden.

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