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  • They Call It Love

    The Politics of Emotional Life

    by Alva Gotby ...
    The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutionsComforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Feeling at Home

    Transforming the Politics of Housing

    by Alva Gotby ...
    Our feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It LoveHousing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine our health, life expectancy, and day-to-day well-being. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    And the Crises of Capitalism

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    For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State

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    by David Garland ...
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    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

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  • Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
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    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? The book begins by addressing basic issues such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through three detailed and absorbing case studies ranging from ... Read more

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  • Configuring the World: A Critical Political Economy Approach

    by Richard T. Griffiths ...
    I truly believe Griffiths’ new introduction in international political economy is unparalleled! It is amazing how different theoretical perspectives, together with their methodological approaches, are lucidly presented… and supported by extraordinarily well-chosen cases examples. First rate; a masterpiece really! Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit ... Read more

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  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

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  • A Manifesto for Social Change

    How to Save South Africa

    by Moeletsi Mbeki, Nobantu Mbeki ...
    A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles.Architects of Poverty (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting their fellow Africans’ misery.Advocates for Change (2011) showed that there were short-term to medium-term ... Read more

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  • TTIP

    The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    by Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services.In this incisive analysis, ... Read more

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  • Keynes's Vision

    Why the Great Depression did not Return

    by John Philip Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following the Second World War. This new book by John Philip Jones describes the main features of Keynes's work, including the fiscal and monetary policies he recommended, together with a detailed trackin ... Read more

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  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • What's Left Now?

    The History and Future of Social Democracy

    by Andrew Hindmoor ...
    Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979 marked the start of a still-continuing fall from political grace made evident by the triumph of a free market get-what-you-can ... Read more

    $19.99 USD