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Breaking The Code: A Pragmatic Approach to Hope and Change
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781764627214
Publisher: Code Collective
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the people meant to protect you are the ones causing the harm?
Breaking the Code is not a memoir, and it is not a self-help book.
It is a field guide for anyone who has felt confused, isolated, or destabilised inside a workplace that claims to value fairness, safety, and justice, while quietly operating by a different set of rules.
Written by former union officials with decades of frontline advocacy experience, this book exposes how workplace bullying, coercive control, and institutional protectionism actually function, not as isolated incidents, but as repeatable patterns. Patterns that are often invisible while you're inside them, and devastating once you realise what's been done.
Through lived experience, case analysis, and practical tools, Breaking the Code shows how power is exercised through silence, process, delay, narrative control, and the strategic erosion of self-trust. It explains why just speak up so often backfires, why systems built to protect can instead process people out, and why harm persists even when policies exist.
This book does not promise easy wins.
It offers clarity.
Inside, you will learn how to:
- recognise manipulation and bullying patterns before they escalate
- document effectively when truth is being distorted
- understand when systems are protecting themselves, not you
- regain authorship over your own narrative without losing yourself in the fight
If you've ever been told you're too sensitive, not resilient enough, or the only one experiencing this, this book is for you.
You're not broken.
The rules are.
And once you can see the code, you can't unsee it.
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