Capitalism & Alternatives

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From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

The Life and Death of Álvaro Vargas Fonseca

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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In this chapter, the author outlines the chain of events that led to the death of a Costa Rican coffee farmer in a Toronto construction site. 10 $1.00 Add
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Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous Waterways

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 6, author Veldon Coburn examines the destruction of the English-Wabigoon River system in Northern Ontario for colonial capital. The chapter examines the history of colonial extraction … 26 $2.60 Add
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Keynes and Polanyi

The 1920s and the 1990s

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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Marx’s Law of Profitability

Evidence and Controversy

From: Twilight Capitalism

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This chapter surveys several attempts to empirically evaluate Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, with a view to establishing its actuality as a law governing the … ; ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Mutual Aid among the Barbarians

From: Mutual Aid

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In Chapter IV, Kropotkin looks at the challenges communal living as primitive societies move towards higher stages of civilization, and what is lost in the process. The chapter explores topics … 23 $2.30 Add
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Other People’s Houses

From: This Has Always Been a War

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In “Other People’s Houses” the author explores housing or more importantly the lack of affordable, sustainable and accessible housing for working-class people across Canada. … 29 $2.90 Add
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Part Three: Section I

My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power

From: The Point is To Change the World

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This reading consists of the following essays: The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018] – Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992] ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Post-Debate Interviews with Moderator Rudyard Griffiths

From: The Future of Capitalism

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This reading consists of two interviews following the Munk Debate on the Future of Capitalism. Moderator Rudyard Griffiths interviews the two teams of debaters separately as they reflect on their … ; ; ; 9 $1.08 Add
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Remaking Our Bodies, Remaking the World?

From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

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In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the ways in which we are now able to modify our bodies and how that changes our conception of the body at a fundamental level. Topics … 10 $1.00 Add
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Revolution Begins at Home: Rethinking Marx, Reproduction, and the Class Struggle

From: Patriarchy of the Wage

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This essay’s argument is divided in four parts. Part 1 examines the evidence and reasons for Marx’s undertheorization of “reproduction,” focusing on his reductive concept … 20 $2.00 Add
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The anarchist impulse

From: SOS

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Chapter 4 examines the theory of anarchy, discussing authority, self-government, organised anarchist movement during the 1848 Revolts across Europe, the commune, titles to libertarianism, and the … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Equality Dimension of Socialist Humanism

From: Human Development

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The Next Steps to Take

From: Still Hopeful

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In Chapter Five Barlow examines alternative approaches to the current framing of global commerce and business, which is dominated by the narratives of neoliberalism and corporate interests. She … 54 $5.40 Add
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The Role of the Political Instrument

From: 21st Century Socialism

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The Social Life of Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

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This chapter unpacks the first part of the Triad commons framework, the Social Life of Commoning. They propose that the socials aspects of commoning are rooted in patterns of cooperation, sharing … 17 $1.70 Add
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Through the Looking Glass

From: Clean Money Revolution

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how can money be deployed in a spirit of service, rather than simply to make more money. Organizations with a systemic approach can effectively leverage relatively small amounts of capital into … ; 28 $2.80 Add