Pm Press: 346 books
Pictures Of A Gone City
Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism - the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left...
Global Slump
The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Investigating the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism, this analysis argues that-far from having ended-the crisis has ushered in a period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental...
For All the People
Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change-farmer, union, consumer, and communalist-that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing...
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer
Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model called solidarity unionism” is explained,...
Organizing Cools the Planet
Tools and Reflections on Navigating the Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Organizing Cools The Planet weaves together stories, analysis, organizing tools, and provocative questions, to offer a snapshot of U.S. climate activism and provide pathways for readers to participate in it. Authors share hard lessons learned, reflect on strategy, and grapple with the challenges of...
Practical Utopia
Strategies for a Desirable Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
It presents concepts and their connections to current society; visions of what can be in a preferred, participatory future; and an examination of the ends and means required for developing a just society. Neither shying away from the complexity of human issues, nor reeking of dogmatism, Practical Utopia presupposes only concern for humanity.
Revolution at Point Zero
Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the topics discussed...
Catastrophism
The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many of today's issues are examined distorts understanding...
by Prole.info
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This scathing illustrated essay takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing-a house-and looks at the social relations that surround it. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city...
Organize!
Building from the Local for Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based labor-organizing strategies among immigrant...
In and Out of Crisis
The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation...
Life Under the Jolly Roger
Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Dissecting the conflicting views of the golden age of pirates-as romanticized villains on one hand and genuine social rebels on the other-this fascinating chronicle explores the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by examining a wide range of ethnographical, sociological,...
We The People
Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. We hear the inspiring voices of ordinary citizens and activists practicing...
Against Doom
A Climate Insurgency Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Late in 2015, nearly two hundred countries signed the Paris Agreement acknowledging their individual and collective duty to protect the earth's climate - and willfully refused to perform that duty. They unanimously agreed to the goal of keeping global warming 'well below 2 degrees Celsius', but they...