Capitalism & Alternatives

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The Winter Market Gardener

The Winter Market Gardener

A Successful Grower's Handbook for Year Round Harvests

The Winter Market Gardener is a guide to year-round vegetable production. Based on years of experimentation in techniques, tools, and cultivars, it presents planting, care, and harvesting details … 274 View
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There Are Many Alternatives

There Are Many Alternatives

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 7 explores the alternatives to the present culture of affluenza, discussing topics including Iceland’s response to the 2008 final crisis and its banks, challenging cultural … 30 $3.00 Add
Think Like a Commoner

Think Like a Commoner

A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures – relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. Think Like a Commoner … 211 View
This Has Always Been a War
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This Has Always Been a War

The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer

A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical. Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By … 321 View
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This Has Always Been a War
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This Has Always Been a War

From: This Has Always Been a War

In “This Has Always Been a War” the author recounts their time working in the vineyards, orchards, and gardens of Naramata, Salt Springs, and Penticton, British Columbia. Discussing … 39 $3.90 Add
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Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass

From: Clean Money Revolution

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
Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism
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Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”

Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism is a pathbreaking study of the changing class makeup of the Canadian, other G7 and Nordic labour forces since the 1980s, documenting especially the rise of … 369 View
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Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different
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Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

Livingstone discusses the current unprecedented chance to create a better world and breaks down the ingredients of most effective major social change processes: critique and protest; an … 45 $4.50 Add
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Toward Permanent  Capitalist Crisis: Job Loss, Ecological Damage, and  International Financial  Panics, 1970–2000
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Toward Permanent Capitalist Crisis: Job Loss, Ecological Damage, and International Financial Panics, 1970–2000

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

In this chapter, Palmer highlights deindustrialization and weakening labour unions in 1970s-2000s. Canada lost manufacturing jobs and expderienced growing income and wealth gaps. Resource … 10 $1.00 Add
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Towards Financial Sustainability

Towards Financial Sustainability

From: In The Business of Change

If you took a survey of social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the startup phase, and asked them about their top challenges, you’d no doubt hear one constant refrain: funding. That is … 16 $1.60 Add
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Trade Is Not Gender Neutral

Trade Is Not Gender Neutral

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the authors describe the ways in which inequality is related to the uneven ways in which women and men are incorporated into the global economy. Some trade can place women-run … 10 $1.00 Add
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Transformation and Integration
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Transformation and Integration

From: Civilizing the State

Transformation and Integration considers what might happen to our economic and political systems in this time of great inequality, political polarity, and global environmental crisis, reflecting … 14 $1.40 Add
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Treason of the State
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Treason of the State

From: Civilizing the State

In Treason of the State, the author contextualized his work by examining the history of welfare and poverty policies in the United States. He also explores co-operation, democracy and … 17 $1.70 Add
Twilight Capitalism

Twilight Capitalism

Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System

Twenty-first-century capitalism has little more to offer than a menu of despair: pandemics, deepening inequality, worsening depression, runaway climate change, intensifying authoritarianism and … 295 View
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Twilight Capitalism

Twilight Capitalism

The Economic Dimension

From: Twilight Capitalism

In this chapter, the authors make the case that capitalism — once a formidable force for innovation and the development of productivity (not to mention brutal exploitation, violence and … ; ; 40 $4.00 Add
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Twilight Capitalism or Socialist Revolution

Twilight Capitalism or Socialist Revolution

From: Twilight Capitalism

This chapter examines "twenty-first-century socialism," and how young people are generally moving to the left and becoming attracted to socialist ideas. ; ; 32 $3.20 Add