Globalization

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A Short History of Progress

Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

Now more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating … 226 View
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Borders, Culture, and Globalization

A Canadian Perspective

Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other … ; 376 View

Fixing Fashion

Remaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes

With sales of more than US $500 billion a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the … 242 View

Global Slump

The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered … 242 View
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NOlympians

Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining … 208 View

Revolution at Point Zero

Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this … 265 View
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The Socialist Register 2022

New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism

The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ … ; ; 352 View
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Acknowledgements

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Culture, Globalization, and Canada’s Borders

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

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In the introduction, the editors of the volume outline and discuss the essays that follow. The first group of essays deals with "border culture" and the second with borders and cultures … 30 $3.00 Add
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Foreword

From: Fixing Fashion

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The foreword begins with a short history of the textile industry in the UK before looking to the ways the textile industry is still exploiting people, especially children around the world, … 3 $0.30 Add
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Gauguin’s Questions

From: A Short History of Progress

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The Mutating Crisis of Global Capitalism

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Introduction

From: Revolution at Point Zero

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The introduction includes the prefaces to the 2012 and 2020 editions as well as the author providing background on herself and her work. 14 $1.40 Add
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Preface

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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The Preface is dedicated to Leo Panitch, a founder of the Socialist Register who worked as an editor until his death in December of 2020. The preface reflects on Pantich’s contributions to … ; 10 $1.00 Add
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A Portrait of Contemporary Neoliberalism

The Rise and Economic Consequences of the One per Cent

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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Simon Mohun examines the massive growth of inequalities in income and wealth, which is perhaps the most commonly agreed-upon cause of polarization across the world today. Mohun argues that most … 20 $2.00 Add
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Introduction

From: Fixing Fashion

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The introduction begins with a look at the author’s early career in the fashion industry, particularly, the international sourcing of Hanes brand clothing. The author introduces some key … 10 $1.00 Add