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  • Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Transfer State

    The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain

    by Peter Sloman ...
    The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British social policy debates for more than a century. Since the First World War, a variety of market economists, radical activists, and social reformers have emphasized the possibility of tackling poverty through direct cash transfers between the state and its citizens. As manufacturing employment has declined and wage inequality has ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

    by Graham Fraser ...
    As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Basic Income

    A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

    by Philippe Van Parijs, Yannick Vanderborght ...
    “Powerful as well as highly engaging—a brilliant book.”—Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, has long been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies

    by Francine Mestrum ...
    As the world's neo-liberal economic order continues to self-destruct in a climate of non growth and widening inequality, the birth of new social movements and alternatives are disrupting the old politics and business "as usual" in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies by Francine Mestrum is a new and original entry into the debate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World to Win

    Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony

    Edited by William K. Carroll, Kanchan Sarker ...
    In this time of economic, ecological and social crises, a diverse array of collective movements carry the possibilities of deep democratization and alternative futures. A World to Win brings these movements alive as agents of history-in-the-making. It situates Quebec student strikers, Indigenous resistance and resurgence, Occupy, workers, migrant, feminist and queer movements and many others in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Urban Outcasts

    A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Hegemony of Growth

    The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

    by Matthias Schmelzer ...
    In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Ungovernable Society

    A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Public intellectual in Canada

    by Nelson Wiseman ...
    This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly changing and diverse society. Boasting an all-star cast of contributors – including some of Canada’s most prominent writers, journalists, and academics – it probes the role of public discourse and intellectual persuasion in shaping Canada’s past, present, and future.The Public ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Albert O. Hirschman

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Michele Alacevich ...
    Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic ThoughtOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, took part in antifascist activities in Italy, and organized an underground rescue operation in Marseille through which ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Politics of Insecurity

    Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU

    by Jef Huysmans ...
    Series series New International Relations
    The act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. Weapons of mass destruction grabbed public interest and controlling the free movement of people became a national security priority.In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a conceptual ... Read more

    $70.99 USD