Capitalism & Alternatives

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter 5 How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law lives comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often …	Harry Glasbeek	14	2024	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 5: Capitalist Pharmacy From: The Killer's Henchman View Baraka Books	This chapter is focused on the pharmaceutical industry/capitalist pharmacy and the interests of its wealthy investors.	Stephen Gowans	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From Chapter 6 Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Violence Against Women: An International and Historical Perspective From: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women View Between The Lines	The readings in Part Two of this title explore the ways in witch the attitudes that spawned the witch-hunt have survived into the modern world. This chapter consists of a discussion of the forms …	Silvia Federici	14	2018	$1.40 Add
From Chapter 6 How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideology From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists …	Harry Glasbeek	25	2024	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 6: The Billionaire From: The Killer's Henchman View Baraka Books	The author focuses on Bill Gates, examining how Gates offers a concrete example of how members of the capitalist class use their wealth to shape political agendas to expand their own interests at …	Stephen Gowans	29	2022	$2.90 Add
From Chapter 7 Witch Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today From: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women View Between The Lines	The readings in Part Two of this title explore the ways in witch the attitudes that spawned the witch-hunt have survived into the modern world. This chapter consists of a case study of modern …	Silvia Federici	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From Chapter 7 Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to …	Harry Glasbeek	27	2024	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 7: The Henchman From: The Killer's Henchman View Baraka Books	This chapter explores Covid-19 mitigation/responses with particular analysis of Operation Warp Speed, Washington’s Covid-19 vaccine program, which used public money, and capitalized on …	Stephen Gowans	44	2022	$4.40 Add
From Chapter 8 Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the …	Harry Glasbeek	32	2024	$3.20 Add
From Chapter 9 Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how governments determined which businesses are essential to the public welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that labeling employees essential workers functions …	Harry Glasbeek	21	2024	$2.10 Add
From Checks, Unbalanced: Why Competition Policy Has Failed From: The Big Fix View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Hearn and Bednar trace Canada’s competition policy from the 1889 Anti-Combines Act to the 1986 Competition Act, examining how neoliberal philosophy and the Chicago …	Denise Hearn; Vass Bednar	8	2024	$0.80 Add
Civilizing the State Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good New Society Publishers	Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations are tearing apart the social contract and …	John Restakis	226	2021	View
From Civilizing the State: Principles and Policies From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	Civilizing the State: Principles and Policies further articulates the previous chapter’s vision for a Partner State by looking at what principles and policies support its implementation.	John Restakis	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Class Consciousness in Advanced Capitalism: General Forms and Recent Trends From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter offers profiles of general patterns and trends in all these levels and forms of class consciousness since the early 1980s. The chapter concludes by tracking association between the …	D.W. Livingstone	47	2023	$4.70 Add
From Clean Money Emergence From: Clean Money Revolution View New Society Publishers	Socially responsible investing (SRI) — rating and screening out the worst companies based on ethics and impacts — has been a major component of the shift to a generative economy. …	Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge	32	2017	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Climate Change, Pandemics, Warfare, and the Search for a Better World The 2020s Viewed in the Context of Global Human History From: Humans View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the growth of the environmental movement in response to the mounting climate crisis perpetuated by capitalist priorities. It explores the response to pandemics in the late …	Alvin Finkel	11	2024	$1.10 Add