Pluto Press: 574 books
The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead? The Three Worlds of Social Democracy explores the historical and theoretical path of the social democratic parties from their inception to the present day through a series of essays by high-profile experts in the field.
Looking...
Labour and the Challenges of Globalization
What Prospects For Transnational Solidarity?
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
'Labour and the Challenges of Globalization breaks new ground by anchoring the response of labour to globalization in the strategies of individual labour movements. Through ten excellent country reports, leading labour scholars show how new struggles are emerging in the face of hyper-competition and...
by Isaac Ilyich Rubin, Catherine Colliot-Thelene
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This is an important and unparalleled work which situated Marx's economic theory in relation to the economic theories that pre-date him - from mercantilism to John Stuart Mill. First published in 1929, the book dates from the fertile period of Marxist economic theory that produced the works of Preobrazhensky,...
Yes
The Radical Case for Scottish Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The United Kingdom faces a historic turning point in 2014. A 'Yes' vote in the referendum on Scottish independence would see the break-up of the 300-year-old union, adding a constitutional crisis to a deep economic crisis.*BR**BR*An accessible polemic written for progressives both north and south...
A Different Hunger
Writings on Black Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1991
Sivanandan’s influence extends well beyond the limits of formal acknowledgement. His ideas and writings have been consistently quoted, copied and plagiarised. He was both and intellectual and an activist, his work has made a profound impact on the political life of Britain from the 1970s to the...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
‘Workers of the world, Unite!’The Communist Manifesto is arguably the world's most influential political manuscript. Surviving through countless decades of revolution and counter-revolution, Marx and Engels' remains relevant to this day, providing a solution for the peoples' liberation as they...
by Vijay Prashad
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but also form an opposing government in their own image. The new idea that the...
Making Workers
Radical Geographies of Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
As globalisation transforms the organisation of society, so too is its impact felt in the classroom. Katharyne Mitchell argues that schools are spaces in which neoliberal practices are brought to bear on the lives of children. Education’s narratives, actors and institutions play a pivotal role in...
Footwork
Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and austerity politics impact the hidden lives of people...
Invisible Giant
Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'Kneen has published a detailed study of of the gargantuan Cargill corporation ... This is a book for activists. Kneen has crawled into the belly of the beast, as it were, and (in very readable prose) had described what he saw there ... Kneen's Invisible Giant details the ethos, priorities, strategies...
Overheating
An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.*BR**BR*In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion...
Identity Destabilised
Living in an Overheated World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’...
Stitched Up
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2015* *BR**BR**Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014**BR**BR*Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class...
Corporate Europe
How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the divisions between nation-states, focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite and...