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  • The Jackson Project

    War in the American Workplace

    by Phil Cohen ...
    “When it comes to the issues confronting working people and their unions today, Phil Cohen knows what he’s talking about as few people do. . .through knowledge born og bare-knuckle-experience.”—Si KahnIn the spring of 1989, union organizer Phil Cohen journeyed to Jackson, Tennessee, to sort out the troubled situation at a historic cotton mill. His task as a representative of the Amalgamated ... Read more

    $20.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archive That, Comrade!

    Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

    by Phil Cohen ...
    Series series Kairos
    Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate. It is informed by the author’s experience of writing a memoir about his involvement in the London underground scene of the 1960s, the London street commune movement, and the occupation of 144 Piccadilly, an event ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill

    An Organizer's Memoir

    by Phil Cohen ...
    In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute that rocked a Fortune 500 company.The organizer had to prove management was behind an illegal decertification petition and forced workers to sign using ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • New Directions in Radical Cartography

    Why the Map is Never the Territory

    Edited by Phil Cohen, Mike Duggan ...
    New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes original research, accounts of mapping projects and detailed readings of maps. The contributors explore ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City

    A Hollow Legacy?

    Edited by Phil Cohen, Paul Watt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Archive That, Comrade!

    Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

    by Phil Cohen ...
    The book explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate. It is informed by the author's experience of writing a memoir about his involvement in the London underground scene of the 1960s, the London street commune movement, and the occupation of 144 Piccadilly, an event that hit the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Edited by John Punter ...
    Are Britain’s cities attractive places in which to live, work and play? Asking that question, this is a critical review of how the design dimension of the Urban Renaissance strategy was developed and applied, based on expert academic assessments of progress in Britain’s thirteen largest cities. The case studies are preceded by a dissection of New Labour’s renaissance agenda, and concluded by a ... Read more

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  • Art Power

    by Boris Groys ...
    A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Regenerating London

    Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

    Edited by Rob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco ...
    Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Playing on the Periphery

    Sport, Identity and Memory

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have ... Read more

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  • DENIAL

    The Unspeakable Truth

    by Keith Kahn-Harris ...
    The holocaust never happened. The planet isn't warming. Vaccines harm children. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, often dressed in the garb of scholarship. It's certainly insidious, but what if, as Kahn-Harris asks, it actually cloaks much darker, unspeakable, desires? If denialists could speak from the heart, what would we hear? Kahn-Harris sets out to expose what lies at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Darwinian Left

    Politics, Evolution and Cooperation

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Darwinism Today series
    In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no ... Read more

    $13.99 USD