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Borders in Service
October 20, 2016 |
272 pages
In this collection, Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred Poster have gathered a wide range of contributors to explore the dynamics within global call centres.
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$35.00
Playing Dead
August 9, 2016 |
272 pages
A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn. Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So... More Info
Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization
July 12, 2016 |
280 pages
Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
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$24.95
Europe in Revolt!
May 10, 2016 |
280 pages
The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive wave of resistance erupted across the continent.Europe in Revoltis a gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity. The... More Info
$29.95
Politicized Microfinance
University of Toronto Press |
June 23, 2016 |
240 pages
In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad.
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Saving Capitalism
Vintage |
May 3, 2016 |
304 pages
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of... More Info
International Migration
Oxford University Press, USA |
June 23, 2016 |
152 pages
In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration... More Info
$24.00
Holding Fast to Dreams
Beacon Press |
March 1, 2016 |
208 pages
An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others. When Freeman Hrabowski was twelve years old, a civil rights leader visited his Birmingham, Alabama,... More Info
$40.95
Eccentric Orbits
Atlantic Monthly Press |
June 7, 2016 |
496 pages
In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan’s "Star... More Info
$29.95
Paul Robeson
Pluto Press (UK) |
January 11, 2016 |
256 pages
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages.
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$22.00
The Carbon Bubble
Vintage Canada |
May 17, 2016 |
320 pages
As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil. For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the... More Info
The Human City
April 12, 2016 |
288 pages
InThe Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack” strategies. By exploring the economic, social, and environmental benefits of decentralized, family-friendly alternatives, Kotkin concludes... More Info
Why Save the Bankers?
Houghton Mifflin |
April 5, 2016 |
240 pages
The world's best-selling economist's brief, incisive essays on subjects ranging from austerity to inequality, Steve Jobs to climate change, documenting the global financial crisis in real time through the eyes of one of its keenest observers.
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Confronting Injustice
February 18, 2016 |
202 pages
Urgent and powerful call to build the mass movements necessary to overcome global climate & save the planet.
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Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
January 22, 2016 |
384 pages
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The New Rulers of the World
March 8, 2016 |
John Pilger's television film The New Rulers of the World was, among much else, a debunking of the myth of globalization. Reporting from Indonesia, he revealed how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design that was just the beginning of the imposition of a... More Info
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pluto Press (UK) |
October 13, 2015 |
176 pages
Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as 'To A Skylark', 'Ozymandias' and 'The Mask of Anarchy', he is considered a major Romantic poet with important new editions of his work currently being produced.... More Info
Gdp
September 1, 2015 |
184 pages
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was... More Info
The Secure and the Dispossessed
Pluto Press (UK) |
November 13, 2015 |
248 pages
While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from 'climate refugees',... More Info
Struggle in a Time of Crisis
Pluto Press |
May 20, 2015 |
192 pages
It is becoming increasingly clear for those who care to see it, that class struggle is at the core of the crisis which started in 2007. The victory of neoliberalism is closely related to two decades of successful attacks on trade unions, in particular in the west. Progressive research is more than... More Info
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
February 2, 2016 |
192 pages
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption--and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disenfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with... More Info
Playing Against the House
Simon and Schuster |
February 16, 2016 |
288 pages
"Salting is a simple concept: get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, unionize your coworkers from the inside. James Walsh spent almost three years as a 'salt' in two casinos in South Florida, working as a buffet server and... More Info
The Great Surge
Simon and Schuster |
November 10, 2015 |
368 pages
The untold story of the global poor today: A distinguished expert and advisor to developing nations reveals how we’ve reduced poverty, increased incomes, improved health, curbed violence, and spread democracy—and how to ensure the improvements continue. We live today at a time of great progress... More Info
The Industries of the Future
Simon and Schuster |
February 2, 2016 |
320 pages
Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years—for businesses, governments, and the global community—and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton's... More Info
The Servant State
Fernwood Publishing |
October 1, 2015 |
146 pages
The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations and leadership, the rich and powerful around the world have... More Info
Citizen-Led Innovation for a New Economy
October 1, 2015 |
320 pages
This collection of eleven cases of citizens organizing for change in Canada and the United States gives form and substance to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. These are stories of local citizens responding to the economically distorting effects of... More Info
Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods
February 16, 2016 |
On the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner provides a major reinterpretation of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944.
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Building a Better World
October 1, 2015 |
224 pages
Since it was first published, Building a Better World has been the best available book to introduce readers to unions in Canada. With workers and unions facing increasingly severe attacks from employers and governments, this new version is most welcome. David Camfield, University of Manitoba,... More Info
Against Apartheid
Haymarket Books |
October 9, 2015 |
300 pages
A timely and incisive handbook that argues academic boycott is a vital component of the struggle against Israeli Apartheid
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Haymarket Books |
September 15, 2015 |
372 pages
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America dispenses impeccably comprehensive research to expose the realities of African American poverty, health, employment, and education, as well as other demographics. Marable's conclusions prove an undeniable connection between the oppression and exploitation... More Info
Death to Bourgeois Society
February 1, 2016 |
128 pages
Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s. In a time of cynicism and political decay for many, they represented a purity lacking in society, and their actions when they were captured, their forthrightness, their defiance up to... More Info
The Crises of Microcredit
October 8, 2015 |
288 pages
Microcredit programs, which often give small loans to borrowers in developing countries who lack collateral, have been considered efficient tools for economic development in struggling regions around the world. Yet, recently, microcredit has come under increasing critic by experts who feel that... More Info
The New War on the Poor
Zed Books |
July 9, 2015 |
240 pages
While governments and the media present the often violent, repressive actions of governments as something wholly distinct from--and certainly better than--the actions of criminals, to those who suffer the consequences of the contemporary public security state, the difference isn't always so clear.
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Tools for Grassroots Activists
Patagonia Incorporated |
February 1, 2016 |
288 pages
For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like... More Info
$22.95
Local Motion
Coach House Press |
September 29, 2016 |
221 pages
Decisions about the things that matter most on a daily basis - our roads and schools and houses - happen at the city level. So, how do we influence these decisions? What motivates ordinary citizens to take action and improve their community? How do neighbours organize together? Does City Hall... More Info
$21.50
What's My Name, Fool?
Haymarket Books |
September 29, 2016 |
293 pages
Offers a provocative and engaging look at the dirty business of sports and the inspired people who play them. From icons of the past like Billie Jean King to today's global superstars like Kobe Bryant and Barry Bonds, Zirin engages with the world of sports like no other sports writer today.... More Info
$28.50
Living Anarchism
January 5, 2016 |
270 pages
"Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author ofThe Spanish Holocaust Brick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a... More Info
Asia-Africa Development Divergence
Zed Books |
February 12, 2015 |
264 pages
Why have Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a century ago? This... More Info
How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015
McGill Queens Univ |
August 30, 2014 |
216 pages
A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.
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An Anarchist FAQ
A K PressDistribution |
September 29, 2016 |
555 pages
An in-depth introduction to anarchist ideas and action in an easy-to-follow question and answer format. Here is the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to anarchist theory and practice in print. Meticulously referenced, well researched and wide-ranging, this is the ultimate guide to... More Info
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
Verso Books |
November 3, 2015 |
212 pages
Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of “bourgeois” society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois... More Info
Change Everything
Zed Books |
June 11, 2015 |
192 pages
Few people would contest that modern capitalism comes with major costs: it damages the environment, harms workers, and increases inequality, to name just a few. Yet we're told time and again that those are simply inevitable side effects of the constant need for profit and growth--and that while... More Info
$21.95
Sugar
John Wiley & Sons |
September 1, 2015 |
232 pages
There is more sugar in the world s diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature s white gold and the unhealthy consumers eating it. Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that... More Info
The Impulse Society
Bloomsbury USA |
September 8, 2015 |
320 pages
Paul Roberts' galvanizing, sweeping social critique of our Impulse Society is now available in paperback. More timely than ever, the book confronts a world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social costs; where political leaders reflexively choose... More Info
Cyber-Proletariat
Pluto Press (UK) |
January 5, 2015 |
240 pages
Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing... More Info
Bad Samaritans
Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
December 23, 2008 |
276 pages
Challenges beliefs about free trade, globalization, and economic justice, revealing how top-level economies achieved their wealth through practices that victimized the developing world.
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How the Other Half Banks
Harvard University Press |
October 6, 2015 |
280 pages
The United States has two separate banking systems one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. Deserted by banks and lacking credit, many people are forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services thanks to the effects of deregulation in the... More Info
The Dog Walker
Melville House Pub |
September 8, 2015 |
240 pages
What happens when an angry radical finds himself (more) penniless (than usual) after one too many protests? Why, he becomes a dogwalker, picking up the poop of Washington D.C.'s canine elite. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but it's also the absolutely true story of Joshua Stephens, a committed... More Info
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