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  • Fake Work

    How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke

    "[A] memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil...superbly committed to its own beliefs — truthful, dryly funny and often subtly moving." – Charles Finch, The New York TimesIn this genre-bending memoir, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her stint at one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the country and what it teaches us about the absurdity of work—for readers of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Marx for Cats

    A Radical Bestiary

    At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Whose Shadow Is This?

    A Look at Animal Shapes - Round, Long, and Pointy

    by Claire Berge ...
    Illustrated by Derrick Alderman, Denise Shea ...
    Series series Whose Is It?
    Examines a variety of different animal shadows including shadows produced from a hummingbird, a gibbon, a reindeer, a camel, a porcupine, a giraffe, and an ant. ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Marx for Cats

    A Radical Bestiary

    Narrated by Elisabeth Lagelee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism's feudal prehistory, its colonialist and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Fake Work

    How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke

    Narrated by Kitty Hendrix ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    In this genre-bending memoir, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her stint at one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the country and what it teaches us about the absurdity of work—for readers of Bullshit Jobs and fans of Office Space and Sorry to Bother YouWhile headlines blazed with doomsaying prophecies about the looming Y2K apocalyps... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Whose Shadow Is This?

    A Look at Animal Shapes - Round, Long, and Pointy

    by Claire Berge ...
    Narrated by Various Narrators ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Examines a variety of different animal shadows including shadows produced from a hummingbird, a gibbon, a reindeer, a camel, a porcupine, a giraffe, and an ant. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wages Against Artwork

    Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art

    The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Reading Capitalist Realism

    Series series New American Canon
    As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

    by Sophie Lewis ...
    Narrated by Helen Phillips ...

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    In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bullshit Jobs

    A Theory

    by David Graeber ...
    From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of White People

    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD