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Mexico - Culture Smart!

by Maddicks, Russell;Culture Smart!;  · 15 Nov 2023  · 133pp  · 37,859 words

in the labor market, compared to 76 percent for men, and on average female employees earned 16 percent less than their male coworkers, although the gender pay gap is less pronounced in larger corporations. As a foreign woman doing business in Mexico, you are unlikely to encounter any problems but you may find

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham  · 17 Jan 2020  · 207pp  · 59,298 words

of women working in ‘non-standard’ jobs (Fredman, 2003). This means that women are much more likely to end up in segregated jobs, with a gender pay gap and fewer social protections throughout the life course, amongst other negative outcomes. Similarly, when it is ‘paid domestic work in private households’, it ‘is disproportionately

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

by Paul Jarvis  · 1 Jan 2019  · 258pp  · 74,942 words

services they might wish to use. Ellevest, a wealth management company that has built a new approach to women-focused investing (based on risk preferences, gender pay gaps, and women’s longer life expectancy), has a fiduciary duty to act in their clients’ best interests at all times and to not use their

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell  · 19 Jul 2021  · 460pp  · 130,820 words

receiving and investigating far more claims with allegations of incidents similar to those experienced by Anaya. The company sought to examine compensation and improve any gender pay gaps. Still, few saw wholesale change. A lawsuit brought in the spring of 2019 would reveal that fifty-eight executives were given new compensation packages worth

The Passenger

by The Passenger  · 27 Dec 2021  · 202pp  · 62,397 words

recently as October 2020. It has called for immediate, urgent reforms to be implemented in all aspects of this inhumane system. There is still a gender pay gap. Our health service is straining at the seams, particularly since Covid-19. Mental health services, for young people in particular, are inadequate. Housing is the

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

smiling while being yelled at by a customer. Working long hours has become a sign of devotion to the job, even as it perpetuates the gender pay gap.131 With work tied so tightly into our identities, overcoming the work ethic will require us overcoming ourselves. The central ideological support for the work

The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms

by Iain Overton  · 15 Apr 2015  · 436pp  · 125,809 words

Shierholz, The State of Working America, 12th edition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012). 10. http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/ 11. http://youliveyourlife.com 12. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/154225 13. http://store.waltherarms.com/very-tough-ppx-shirt.html 14. http://www.salon.com

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy  · 14 Apr 2020

’s clearly evident here is how these sexbots are made to serve a relatively narrow range of male pleasure. We’ve all heard of the gender pay gap, but what about the gender orgasm gap: the difference between female and male sexual pleasure? Psychology professor and sex therapist Laurie Mintz devotes considerable attention

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future

by Noreena Hertz  · 13 May 2020  · 506pp  · 133,134 words

, 8 July 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jul/08/part-time-workers-trapped-jobs; Richard Partington, ‘Mothers working part-time hit hard by gender pay gap, study shows’, Guardian, 5 February 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/05/mothers-working-part-time-hit-hard-by

-gender-pay-gap-study-shows; Paul Johnson, ‘We must not ignore plight of low-paid men as once we ignored that of working women’, Institute for Fiscal Studies,

The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism

by Calum Chace  · 17 Jul 2016  · 477pp  · 75,408 words

it as a mechanism to eradicate poverty and redress what they view as growing inequality within societies. They sometimes argue that it tackles the alleged gender pay gap, and redistributes income away from capital and towards labour. It has also been held out as a partial solution to the alleged generational theft whereby

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

by Cordelia Fine  · 13 Jan 2017  · 312pp  · 83,998 words

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

Sex Power Money

by Sara Pascoe  · 26 Aug 2019  · 287pp  · 92,194 words

Social Class in the 21st Century

by Mike Savage  · 5 Nov 2015  · 297pp  · 89,206 words

The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

by Steve Stewart-Williams  · 12 Sep 2018  · 1,132pp  · 156,379 words

How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

by Elizabeth Day  · 3 Apr 2019  · 284pp  · 95,029 words

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

Corbyn

by Richard Seymour

Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 17 May 2021  · 445pp  · 135,648 words

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

by Isabel Hardman  · 14 Jun 2018  · 333pp  · 99,545 words

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

by Yancey Strickler  · 29 Oct 2019  · 254pp  · 61,387 words

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

by Nesrine Malik  · 4 Sep 2019

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff  · 14 Oct 2021  · 309pp  · 96,168 words

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

by Dave Rubin  · 27 Apr 2020  · 239pp  · 62,005 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

by Laura Bates  · 2 Sep 2020  · 364pp  · 119,398 words

The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

by James Bloodworth  · 18 May 2016  · 82pp  · 21,414 words

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

by Kassia St Clair  · 3 Oct 2018  · 480pp  · 112,463 words

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini  · 29 May 2017  · 296pp  · 86,188 words

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung  · 21 Mar 2023  · 401pp  · 112,589 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 16 May 2023  · 302pp  · 112,390 words

Secrets of the Sprakkar

by Eliza Reid  · 15 Jul 2021

Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story

by Rachel Clarke  · 14 Sep 2017  · 255pp  · 80,190 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

The Globalization of Inequality

by François Bourguignon  · 1 Aug 2012  · 221pp  · 55,901 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson  · 5 Feb 2019  · 280pp  · 83,299 words

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang  · 6 Feb 2018  · 334pp  · 104,382 words

Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain Since 1945

by Pat Thane  · 18 Apr 2010  · 241pp  · 90,538 words

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 28 Jan 2020  · 408pp  · 108,985 words

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

by Cate Sevilla  · 14 Jan 2021

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland  · 15 Jan 2021  · 342pp  · 72,927 words

The New Snobbery

by David Skelton  · 28 Jun 2021  · 226pp  · 58,341 words

Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

by Ed West  · 19 Mar 2020  · 530pp  · 147,851 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen  · 5 Sep 2022  · 642pp  · 141,888 words

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

by Jenny Kleeman  · 13 Mar 2024  · 334pp  · 96,342 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge  · 25 Apr 2023  · 541pp  · 173,676 words

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo  · 3 May 2021  · 272pp  · 76,154 words

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

by Maya Dusenbery  · 6 Mar 2018  · 504pp  · 147,722 words

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down

by Tom Standage  · 27 Nov 2018  · 215pp  · 59,188 words

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis  · 19 May 2021  · 516pp  · 116,875 words

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

by David Goodhart  · 7 Jan 2017  · 382pp  · 100,127 words

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 20 Nov 2018  · 211pp  · 57,759 words

Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America

by Garrett Neiman  · 19 Jun 2023  · 386pp  · 112,064 words

Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency

by Vicky Spratt  · 18 May 2022  · 371pp  · 122,273 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

by Fiona Hill  · 4 Oct 2021  · 569pp  · 165,510 words

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect

by David Goodhart  · 7 Sep 2020  · 463pp  · 115,103 words

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott  · 1 Jun 2016  · 344pp  · 94,332 words

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg  · 11 Mar 2013  · 241pp  · 78,508 words

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

by Lisa Servon  · 10 Jan 2017  · 279pp  · 76,796 words

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

by Brigid Schulte  · 11 Mar 2014  · 455pp  · 133,719 words

Give People Money

by Annie Lowrey  · 10 Jul 2018  · 242pp  · 73,728 words

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

by Alex Rosenblat  · 22 Oct 2018  · 343pp  · 91,080 words

The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 3 Mar 2020  · 279pp  · 90,888 words

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality

by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell  · 23 May 2023

Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

by Claudia Goldin  · 11 Oct 2021  · 445pp  · 122,877 words

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 6 Oct 2011  · 471pp  · 109,267 words

The Meritocracy Myth

by Stephen J. McNamee  · 17 Jul 2013  · 440pp  · 108,137 words

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged

by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison  · 28 Jan 2019

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez  · 12 Mar 2019  · 480pp  · 119,407 words

Economic Dignity

by Gene Sperling  · 14 Sep 2020  · 667pp  · 149,811 words

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney  · 7 Mar 2017  · 526pp  · 160,601 words

Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

by Robert Verkaik  · 14 Apr 2018  · 419pp  · 119,476 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits  · 14 Sep 2019  · 976pp  · 235,576 words