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  • Labor and Democracy in the Transition to a Market System

    by Bertram Silverman, Robert Vogt, Murray Yanovich ...
    Nowhere is the tension attending simultaneous political democratization and economic liberalization more sharply felt than in the realm of labour relations. What is happening in Soviet trade unions today? How will the emerging independent unions respond to anticipated rises in unemployment? What kind of social regulation of the labour market will be appropriate in the future? These papers from a ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Double Shift

    Transforming Work in Postsocialist and Postindustrial Societies

    by Bertram Silverman, Robert Vogt, Murray Yanowitch ...
    Taken from a series of conferences, this collection of papers by leading labour experts from the United States and the former Soviet Union examines the profound changes in industrial systems and work organisation currently affecting both societies. The authors focus on the emergence of new labour market institutions, the evolution of managerial philosophy, changes in workers' values and attitudes ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard Wolff ...
    What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from "probably America's most prominent Marxist economist" ( The New York Times).Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable ... Read more

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  • Does Capitalism Have a Future?

    by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun ...
    In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim ... Read more

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  • Economics Does Not Lie

    by Guy Sorman ...
    In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and India - out of poverty. In Economics Does Not Lie, noted French journalist Guy Sorman reveals that behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collapse of state socialism but also a scientific revolution in economics - one that is as of yet dimly ... Read more

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  • Gross Domestic Problem

    The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Gross domestic product is arguably the best-known statistic in the contemporary world, and certainly amongst the most powerful. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from schooling to healthcare. Yet for perhaps the first time since it was invented in the 1930s, this popular icon of economic growth has come to be regarded by a wide range of people as ... Read more

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  • Confronting Capitalism

    How the World Works and How to Change It

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Series series Jacobin
    A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian futureWhy is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society?Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of ... Read more

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  • A Giant Reborn

    Why the US Will Dominate the 21st Century

    by Johan Van Overtveldt ...
    The world is in turmoil. Whether one looks at Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America, uncertainty and upheaval seem to be the order of the day. Nevertheless, there seems to be an odd certainty in the minds of many pundits, writers, and citizens in this highly volatile world of geopolitics: the days of the United States as the world's sole superpower are over. The ... Read more

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  • Uncertain Transition

    Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

    by Michael Burawoy, Sarah Ashwin, Gerald Creed, Elizabeth Dunn, Caroline Humphrey, Andrew Lass, David Woodruff, Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh ...
    The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.The ... Read more

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  • International and Comparative Business

    Foundations of Political Economies

    by Leo McCann ...
    ′Erudite and accessible, McCann demonstrates how the national gets reconfigured around the global without losing some of its unique features. Far from being a one-size-fits-all Anglo-American template, neoliberalism comes in many different hues and variations. This is by far the best textbook in the field and is destined to become a classic for years to come.′ Manfred B. Steger, Professor of ... Read more

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  • The Downfall of the American Order?

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Jonathan Kirshner ...
    The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world.For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designed—an order designed to avoid the horrors of previous ... Read more

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  • Beyond Capitalism: Notes on the political economy of the transition to socialism

    by R.E. Greenblatt ...
    How can society organize itself democratically to achieve human freedom, environmental sustainability, justice, prosperity, equality, and solidarity? Beyond Capitalism introduces various ideas that have been suggested as answers to these questions, focusing especially on how a socialist economy might be attained to satisfy human needs democratically and equitably.As the limitations of capitalism ... Read more

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