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Oil on Water

Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China

by Paul French, Sam Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Out of sight, out of mind. That's the general reaction to the crucial movement of oil around the world's oceans. Yet this vital supply chain that allows the world to function is constantly under enormous, largely unreported pressure. The uninterrupted flow of oil is essential to globalisation, and...
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Everyday Revolutions

Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

by Marina A. Sitrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012

In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking...
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Living with Reform

China since 1989

by Timothy Cheek
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working...
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The Refusal of Work

The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

by David Frayne
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned...
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Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy

Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions...
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Exploited

Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy

by Toby Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are used for forced labour. Low wages are used to drive down prices from the oil industry to...
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Making Public in a Privatized World

The Struggle for Essential Services

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation efforts, societies in the global south are increasingly seeking progressive ways of recreating the public sector. With contributors ranging from cutting-edge scholars to...
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The Economics Anti-Textbook

A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill, Professor Tony Myatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion. The Economics Anti-Textbook...
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Can We Afford the Future?

The Economics of a Warming World

by Doctor Frank Ackerman, Professor Bina Agarwal, Kevin P. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010

According to many scientists, climate change is a growing threat to life as we know it, requiring a large-scale, immediate response. According to many economists, climate change is a moderately important problem; the best policy is a slow, gradual start, to avoid spending too much. They can't both...
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Free Trade

Myth, Reality and Alternatives

by Graham Dunkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all...
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Gross Domestic Problem

The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

by Doctor Lorenzo Fioramonti
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

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...
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Capitalism's Last Stand?

Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity

by Walden Bello
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse...
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Looting Africa

The Economics of Exploitation

by Patrick Bond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial...
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Structural Adjustment

The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality

by SAPRIN
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. This book is the most comprehensive, real-life assessment to date of the impacts of the liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and austerity that constitute structural...
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