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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steve striffler”
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  • Chicken

    The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food

    by Steve Striffler ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America's favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful indictment of our industrial food system. The process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solidarity

    Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights

    by Steve Striffler ...
    Series series Wildcat
    How and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have particular strategies, tactics, and strands of internationalism emerged or re-emerged at particular moments? And how has solidarity shaped the history of the US left in particular?In Solidarity, Steve Striffler addresses these key questions, offering the first history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the present ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Organizing for Power

    Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston

    by Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler ...
    Boston’s economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class – a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Labor in 21st Century Boston explores this nation-wide phenomenon of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • In the Shadows of State and Capital

    The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995

    by Steve Striffler, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

    Edited by Lesley Gill, Steve Striffler, Leigh Binford ...
    Series Book 28 - Dislocations
    Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Nicaragua and Argentina Compared

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  • Fast Food Nation

    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.**This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the ... Read more

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk

    A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

    by Mark Bittman ...
    "Epic and engrossing." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads ... Read more

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    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

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    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

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