"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell-beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running-is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds...

"Prepare yourself for an education you'll never forget! A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists, and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you'll ever read. Who hasn't wondered what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? At the McMasters Conservatory,...

After being fired from his job for accidentally joining a union, an agricultural laborer is rehired for a management position A poor agricultural laborer loses his job after accidentally joining a workers' strike, only to be rehired for a managerial position

Months after leaving her infant son in another woman's care, a woman contemplates returning to Pullman, Illinois to find out what happened to her baby, while the caregiver wonders if her undercover work for the railroad company is improving working conditions, as she had hoped it would

"From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, the only force capable of defending our democracy"--

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the Southeast. His compelling narrative unravels the confusing story of the shooting of the town's police chief, the trials of the alleged killers, the unsolved...

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary forced labor as a global social problem and argues that it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.