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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “frederick harry pitts”
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  • Value

    by Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series What is Political Economy?
    'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the economic contribution of different kinds of work and productive activity, to the prices we pay for the things we consume. So what is value, and where does it come from?In this new book, Frederick Harry Pitts charts the past, present and future of value ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Marx in Management and Organisation Studies

    Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles

    by Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Business and Management
    This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx’s critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies.Exploring established and emergent strands of Marxian theorising inside and outside management and organisation studies, it delves into, beyond and behind the ‘hidden abode’ of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Critiquing Capitalism Today

    New Ways to Read Marx

    by Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of Antonio Negri. Each stake novel claims on Marx’s value theory, the first revisiting key categories of the critique of political economy through Frankfurt School critical theory, the second calling the law of value into ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Corbynism

    A Critical Approach

    by Matt Bolton, Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised, but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. This book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. It decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Handbook for the Future of Work

    Edited by Julie MacLeavy, Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the twenty-first century.Focusing on the past two decades, the handbook explores how technological advancements, automation and a shifting capitalist landscape have fundamentally reshaped work practices and labour relations. Beyond simply outlining the challenges ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A World Beyond Work?

    Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia

    by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    Sensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the ‘post-capitalist’ utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. By skilfully unpicking the political economy of contemporary work and its futures, this book mounts a forceful critique of the post-work society ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory

    by Dimitris Milonakis, Ben Fine ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic, and unravel the processes that lead to orthodoxy’s current predicament. The book ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before.In assessing the ... Read more

    $46.50 CAD

  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

    The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    by Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Habermas: The Key Concepts

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An independently minded champion of ‘the project of modernity’ in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times.An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural theory, Habermas: The Key Concepts explores Habermas’ writings on:capitalismgeneticslawneo-conservatismuniversal ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...
    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    by Richard Jenkins ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    This short critical introduction to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's original writings are often densely argued and ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasises Bourdieu's contirbutions to the theory and methodology while also dealing in detail with his substantive studies of education, social stratification and ... Read more

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