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  • Public Sociologies Reader

    by Michael Burawoy, Charles A. Gallagher, Kenneth Gould, Arlette Grabczynska, Keri Iyall-Smith, Núria Homedes, Alberto Moncada, Jill Quadagno, Barbara Risman, Havidán Rodríguez0, Deanna Rohlinger1, Carla N. Russell2, Jerome Scott3, Antonio Ugalde4, Angela J. Hattery5, Jerry Pubantz6, John Allphin Moore Jr.7, Judith Blau8, Gerard Delanty0, Walda Katz-Fishman1, Anthony M. Orum2, Robert Pollin3, William I. Robinson4, Earl Smith5, Jackie Smith6 ...
    At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Globalization and America

    Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

    by Cynthia Bejarano, David Embrick, Mary Hovsepian, Linda Lopez, Alberto Moncada, Mercedes Rubio, Rogelio Saenz, Jerome Scott, Ruth Thompson-Miller, Amy E. Ansell, Judith R. Blau, Karen M. Douglas, Joe R. Feagin, M Cristina Morales, Douglas A. Parker, Pat Rubio Goldsmith, James M. Thomas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, David L. Brunsma, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Walda Katz-Fishman, Mary Romero ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States' role in contributing to human rights violations both inside and outside its borders. Essays on ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Leading Rogue State

    The U.S. and Human Rights

    by Judith R. Blau, David L. Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, Catherine Zimmer ...
    Most Americans would be surprised to learn that their government has declined to join most other nations in UN treaties addressing inadequate housing, poverty, children's rights, health care, racial discrimination, and migrant workers. Yet this book documents how the U.S. has, for decades, declined to ratify widely accepted treaties on these and many other basic human rights. Providing the first ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Justice in the United States

    Human Rights and the Constitution

    by Alberto Moncada, Judith Blau ...
    Justice in the U.S. is a sequel to Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision, and the second in a trilogy on human rights. The Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution explicitly clarifies the personal political and civil rights of persons, and by court interpretation, the rights of corporations. Yet in the twentieth century, following World War II, most world leaders reached the conclusion that ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Human Rights

    Beyond the Liberal Vision

    by Alberto Moncada, Judith Blau ...
    There is growing recognition around the globe that people's fundamental human rights are being imperiled in a world economy that is being driven by multinationals, investors, and banks. The "race to the bottom" and insatiable greed has intensified poverty and economic inequalities, fueled migration, and rapidly accelerated environmental degradation. The fates of all nations are interdependent and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

    Edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen ...
    Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, ... Read more

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  • Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

    by William I. Robinson ...
    This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist ... Read more

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  • Explaining Institutional Change

    Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

    Edited by Kathleen Thelen, James Mahoney ...
    This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Feminism Seduced

    How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World

    by Hester Eisenstein ...
    In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the ruling elites of developed countries utilize women's labor and the ideas of women's liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home and abroad. Her explorations range from the abolition of "welfare as we know it" and the ending of the family wage in the United ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Human Rights

    A Primer

    by Judith Blau, Louis Edgar Esparza ...
    Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are increasingly aware of the growing disparities in economic well-being. It is indeed a crisis that is global and national. Because this book focuses on ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Human Rights

    Current Issues and Controversies

    Edited by Gordon DiGiacomo ...
    Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights ... Read more

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  • Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes

    From the Margins

    Edited by Cecilia M. Bailliet ...
    By offering critical perspectives of normative developments within international law, this volume of essays unites academics from various disciplines to address concerns regarding the interpretation and application of international law in context. The authors present common challenges within international criminal law, human rights, environmental law and trade law, and point to unintended risks ... Read more

    $43.49 USD