The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because they fail to address the fundamental issue. Patrick M. Garry changes that in this short, powerful book. Garry, a law professor and political commentator, reveals six ways in which big government hurts the very people its purports to help: the poor, the working class, and the middle c...
Not in our Genes systematically exposes and dismantles the claims that inequalities class, race, gender are the products of biological, genetic inheritances. 'Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty... never dull... should be read and remembered for a long time.' - New York Times Book Review. 'The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based on faulty (in some cases, fabricated) data and wild speculation... It is debunking at its...
Transformative Planning - Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism
by Tom Angotti
After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of the labour market. These reforms expanded and consolidated a two-tier market, widening the gap between those who benefit from the 'company citizenship' of 'regular' (long-term, secure) employment conditions and those who are increasingly disadvantaged by reduced income and security in the peripheral non-regular system of casual and short-te...
Modern Colonization By Medical Intervention: U.s. Medicine In Puerto Rico (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention adds to our understanding of the political and economic transformations establishing colonial modernity in Puerto Rico. By focusing on influential physicians' clinical work and their access to a remote and inaccessible rural population, this volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. Puerto Rican physicians became centrally implicated in the struggle between labour and capital enforcing the islan...
Coming of Age in the Other America
by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Professor of Sociology Kathryn Edin
A deliberately set fire in the Wines Central warehouse destroyed 4.5 million bottles and some of the world's most sought-after wines. Frances Dinkelspiel peels back the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to show obsession, greed and violence lying beneath.
Messages From Georg Simmel (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
by Horst J Helle
As the founder of the humanist version of sociology, Georg Simmel sent powerful messages about the discipline. His key ideas - that reality is socially constructed, changes over time and rarely is as it appears - are critically re-examined with an eye toward drawing lessons for contemporary scholars and activists. With essential insights for those working in any field within the social sciences.
Gold, Prices and Wages - With an Examination of the Quantity Theory
by John Atkinson Hobson
"...A Serf's Journal is a powerful and much-needed overdue call for solidarity today." Alfie Bown, Hong Kong Review of Books Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers as they fight a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.
Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India. Volume 1 (Studies in Critical Social Science)
by Raju J. Das
In the first volume of this sweeping analysis of contemporary India, Raju Das offers a much needed class-based perspective on the economic situation in what has become one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Offering invaluable insights along the way, Das examines the specificities of Indian capitalism and neoliberalism, the country's geographically uneven development, the impact of technological change, and the consequences of its export-oriented, nature-dependent production. Critic...
Schools and the Urban Renaissance
BLURB TO COME This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Education Policy.
Offers a synthesis and critical evaluation of current and recent debates in modern British social and labour history. Issues of change, continuity, class, gender and difference, and the overall place and role of labour in modern British society constitute the central concerns of the book. The author takes issue with recent linguistic and liberal "turns", vigorously making the case for the centrality of class and change to modern history. A selection of documents illustrates the main themes of th...
“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most? “The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your products and services to last.”—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media It’s hard to avoid innovation ...
The Problem of the Unemployed - An Enquiry and an Economic Policy
by John Atkinson Hobson
City and Environment
The Future of the Urban Environment in Europe Conference was the outcome of a long process which began in 1987 with a Council resolution on the fourth environmental action programme. The resulting Green Paper was distributed as a consultation document and the feedback from this forms the main body of this publication. With a foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales, the details concern the planning and management of the urban areas of Europe.
Race, Nation, Class (Radical Thinkers, Set 5)
by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
The History of College Affordability in the United States from Colonial Times to the Cold War
by Thomas Adam
This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues that college was largely free to nineteenth-century college students since local and religious communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill in the expectation that the students would serve society upon graduation. College education was essentially considered a public good. This arrangement ended after 1900. The increasing sec...
On Monday 29 August, Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf coast, utterly destroying the city of New Orleans, leaving an unknown number of dead and hundreds of thousands of people homeless in its wake. In the days that followed, the world watched aghast as the poor and dispossessed of the city were left to fester amid the ruins, without food or water, prey to disease, starvation and lawlessness, issuing increasingly desperate pleas for help. It was as if a destitute corner of the Third World had...
Nation Builders Treatise (Nation Builders Treatise)
by Mark Carven Olds Mno