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  • Global Connections and Local Receptions

    New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States

    Edited by Fran Ansley, Jon Shefner ...
    “Through its close study of immigration in an area of the United States that had until recent years largely been insulated from newcomers, this book opens a window onto a phenomenon that is both deeply local and entirely global. Profoundly insightful on both levels, it deserves to be read by scholars, activists, and human beings everywhere who seek to understand the potential for conflict and for ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Austerity Persists

    by Jon Shefner, Cory Blad ...
    Several nations in the Global North have turned to austerity policies in an effort to resolve recent financial ills. What many failed to recognize is the longer history and varied pattern of such policies in the Global South over preceding decades – policies which had largely proven to fail.Shefner and Blad trace the 45-year history of austerity and how it became the go-to policy to resolve a host ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Illusion of Civil Society

    Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

    by Jon Shefner ...
    Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously provided material benefits to middle- and low-income citizens, who are then motivated to organize ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Global Agenda for Social Justice

    Volume One

    by Brian V. Klocke, Joachim J. Savelsberg, Mangala Subramaniam, Diana Rodriguez-Spahia, Rosemary Barberet, Richelle Frabotta, Kyle Ashlee, Terence D. Miethe, Michelle Christian, Jon Shefner1, Massimo Ragnedda3, James L. Scherrer4, Ajanaw Alemie5, Miranda Mirosa6, David Reynolds7, Shannon Golden8, Vasundhara Kaul9, Zachary Palmer0, Jacqueline Daugherty1, Glenn W. Muschert2, Brandon J. Cash4, Michael P. Loeffelman5, Leland Spencer6, Sean Sweeney7, Todd Vachon8, Nirmala Lekhak9, Moushumi Roy0, Tirth R. Bhatta1, Majia Nadesan2, Eric Mykhalovskiy3, Edwin Bernard4, Carrie Foote5, Tereza Trejbalová6, Craig Boylstein7, Hannah E Hurrle8, Robert Aponte9, Luis A. Fernandez0 ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Agenda for Social Justice

    Solutions for 2016

    Edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Brian V. Klocke, Robert Perrucci, Jon Shefner ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), it offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • States and Citizens

    Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization

    Edited by Jon Shefner ...
    Series Book 34 - Current Perspectives in Social Theory
    Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to the pressures of economic austerity and trade relations to the declining influence of states. This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

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  • Undocumented

    How Immigration Became Illegal

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times).In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed.

    by Dennis Raphael ...
    Series Book 11 - About Canada
    Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story.In this new, updated edition, Dennis Raphael shows that living ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Reparations

    Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism

    by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ...
    A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author.“Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win.”—Naomi KleinA clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series Book 1 - Myths Made in America
    Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Getting Better

    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

    by Charles Kenny ...
    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Disposable Domestics

    Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

    by Grace Chang, Alicia Garza ...
    The book that "has helped to make transnational analyses of reproductive labor central to our understanding of race and gender in the twenty-first century" (Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle).Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus