Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working People

This book effectively deals with the legacy of the Reagan-Bush era: unemployment, underemployment, and the diminishing legal rights of union organizers.

Business & Money

Yates, Michael

Economics

South End Press

This book effectively deals with the legacy of the Reagan-Bush era: unemployment, underemployment, and the diminishing legal rights of union organizers.

""A poet of the everyday world, he is consistently good"" says Brian Patten. ""I like the humanity, the way his poems seem to be full of real people feeling real emotions"" says Ian McMillan ""He has an ear for popular diction reminiscent of Alan Bennett. His eye for comic fiction reminds me of Roger McGough"" - Bradford Telegraph & Argus

Life Class

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Nettle Books

In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation, but it is Branwell's sinister friend, gravedigger John Brown, who threatens to have the last word in this ultimately terrifying take on the brilliant family we have read so much about and all thought we knew so well. In 2013, The Bronte Society sponsored a new production of The Bronte Boy for performance at the Society's International AGM weekend.

The Bronte Boy

Dramas & Plays

Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. LIFE SENTENCE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - especially when she has a meat cleaver in her hand A dark comedy about the violent games lovers play. Winner of the Stanley Arnold Trophy at Sheffield One-Act Play Festival. TILL MY EYES BLEED: Loyal Mel hires the theatre to host a wake for his best friend Adrian. But it becomes apparent - to everyone except Mel - that Mels wife had enjoyed a passionate affair with Adrian. Will Mel guess the truth before the end of the night? SUNDAY AFTERNOON AGAIN: Eight-year-old Lenny has two big worries: His mum and dad are always fighting, and theres a wicked witch living next door A poignant play about growing up, chosen for Liverpools Write Now One-Act Play Festival, and described by critic Laurence Raw as "sharply observed... vividly demonstrates how the past exerts a powerful influence over the present."

Short Shorts

Contemporary

An Amusing Glance at Life and Leaders in Early Colorado

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Infrared Pr

Nothing Without Providence

Dear Writer: Submissions and Rejection Letters

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

The Great Inequality (Critical Interventions)

A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. It is and will continue to be the central issue of politics in almost every nation on earth. In this book, the author explains inequality in clear, passionate, and intelligent prose: what it is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author’s own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience. This book will be excellent for courses in a variety of disciplines, and it will be useful to activists and the general reading public.

Routledge

Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do\nSeventeen-year-old Josie is a miner's daughter, a good Catholic girl and brilliant at school. She might even get to University because her Aunt May has come into some insurance money. But then a man called Hitler invades Poland and her whole world is ravaged by the violence of war. And then there's a different violence close to her Yorkshire home - when Josie falls for a handsome rogue called Denny who involves her in the criminal underworld she never knew existed. Before long, it's not just the German bombers who are killing her friends. And Josie has got herself a gun.\n"Michael Yates's Home Front thriller, in which several plucky but not entirely scrupulous women take on the shady side of Yorkshire during World War Two, is gripping, intelligent, authentic and - uncommonly for such a dark comedy - tremendous fun!" 
- Jim Crace, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize\n"Michael Yates writes with an ear for the everyday magic of speech, and an eye for the telling image that will hold an idea or nudge a story along. His prose does heavy lifting effortlessly, and the reader feels in safe and experienced hands." 
- Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster\n"A hugely entertaining, well-crafted book with fascinating characters and plenty of unexpected twists and turns to keep you guessing right to the end." 
- Larraine S. Harrison, author of Angel's Child\n"Sheffield's Blitz and its criminal underworld are brilliantly brought to life in this captivating tale of the resourceful and intelligent Josie, as she navigates her way through the dark years of WW2. It has all the elements of a thriller that I look for." 
- Colin Hollis, author of No Second Thoughts\n"Michael Yates successfully conveys what life must have been like for ordinary folk who had to live fast and loose when death was only an air raid away." 
- Ivor Tymchak, author of Sex & Death and Other Stories\n"... life on the Yorkshire Home Front in World War II... starts with a shocking confession... Well written and meticulously researched." 
- Philip Andrews, author of Goodnight Vienna

Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do

Armley Press

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Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working People

Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working People

Life Class

The Bronte Boy

Short Shorts

An Amusing Glance at Life and Leaders in Early Colorado

Nothing Without Providence

Dear Writer: Submissions and Rejection Letters

The Great Inequality (Critical Interventions)

Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do