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  • Workers' Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism

    by Stephen E. Philion ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by privatization oriented policies in China today. By the 1990s, this discourse was being deployed by ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

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  • Capital Accumulation and Women's Labor in Asian Economies

    by Peter Custers ...
    The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best ... Read more

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  • Workers Unite!

    The International 150 Years Later

    Edited by Marcello Musto ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on Bloomsbury Collections.Major political and economic shifts have succeeded one another over the past twenty-five years. The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, compels us ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Hesitant Comrades

    The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

    by Geoffrey Bell ...
    Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light for the first time important incidents in British/Irish history, including how the leaders of British trade unions were complicit in Belfast loyalist ... Read more

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  • Labour Market and Industrial Relations in Vietnam

    by Ingrid Artus, Judith Holland, Uwe Blien, Van Phan thi Hong ...
    The society and economy of Vietnam is still characterised by a rapid transformation process. There is high economic and political pressure. coming not only from internal developments but also from foreign countries.This groundbreaking book takes stock of the rapid processes of change in the labour market and the industrial relations of Vietnam. The contributions of Vietnamese and international ... Read more

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  • Marxism and the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Hillel Ticktin ...
    The book discusses the nature of Marxist theory of crisis and applies it to the global financial crisis which began in 2007. Is the contemporary crisis simply the usual periodic upturn and downturn or is there something more fundamental? Is there a structural crisis of capitalism, from which there is no immediate solution? Is capitalism managed and does it have a strategy? Is the financial crisis ... Read more

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  • The Predistribution Agenda

    Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth

    Edited by Patrick Diamond, Claudia Chwalisz ...
    The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics. But what does it mean? The predistributive agenda is concerned with how states can alter the underlying distribution of market outcomes so they no longer rely solely on post hoc redistribution to achieve economic efficiency and social justice. It therefore offers an effective means of tackling economic and ... Read more

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  • Where Are The Unions?

    Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

    by Peter Waterman ...
    The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice. From the pink tide and Arab spring to Occupy and anti-austerity, the last twenty years have witnessed the birth of a new type of mass mobilisation.Where Are The Unions? compares, for the first time, the challenges faced by movements in Latin America, the Arab world and Europe. Workers' strikes and ... Read more

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    Studies of Economic Thought Before and After Marx

    by Henryk Grossman, Rick Kuhn ...
    Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman’s most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx’s economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi. ... Read more

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  • How Leaders Mobilize Workers

    Social Democracy, Revolution, and Moderate Syndicalism

    by Konstantin Vössing ...
    This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders make certain choices, but also how their choices affect the success of interest mobilization and ... Read more

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