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  • China's New Underclass

    Paid Domestic Labour

    by Xinying Hu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give rise to paid domestic work in a socialist economy, and goes on to look at the need for social protection of domestic workers within cities in contemporary China.Using a socialist feminist approach, the book investigates how China's economic restructuring ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    by James Plunkett ...
    Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a ... Read more

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    by David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

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  • Glass House

    The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

    by Brian Alexander ...
    A field study of corporate greed and a private equity firm's disastrous effect on a once thriving industrial American town—"Does a remarkable job" ( The New Yorker ).Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of the Year by New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle"Should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a n... ... Read more

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  • The Creation of Inequality

    How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

    by Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus ...
    Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this development was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of ... Read more

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  • War on the Middle Class

    How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War onthe American Dream and How to Fight Back

    by Lou Dobbs ...
    Lou Dobbs's bestselling exposé of the silent assault on the living standards of ordinary AmericansMillions of TV viewers have known Lou Dobbs for years as the Walter Cronkite of economics coverage, and now the anchor has become the preeminent champion of the common man and the good of the national interest, who tells uncomfortable truths in a voice that can't be ignored. In this incendiary book, ... Read more

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  • Isn't That Rich?

    Life Among the 1 Percent

    by Richard Kirshenbaum ...
    Celebrated ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, the original New York observer, reveals the fashions, foibles, and outrageous extravagances of the private-jet setPaid friends. Pot dealers draped in Dolce. Divorce settlements that include the Birkins at their current retail price. Air kisses, landing strips, and lounge-chair bribery.For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, ... Read more

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  • Future Primitive Revisited

    by John Zerzan ...
    "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." — Derrick Jensen"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift ... Read more

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  • After Occupy

    Economic Democracy for the 21st Century

    by Tom Malleson ...
    These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that ... Read more

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  • The Missing Class

    Portraits of the Near Poor in America

    by Katherine Newman, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself.Missing Class parents often work at a breakneck pace to preserve the progress ... Read more

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  • Counterpower

    Making Change Happen

    by Tim Gee ...
    This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves."Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human rights movements, Tim Gee demonstrates what works and what doesn't work. In showing how counterpower can be strategically ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars

    by Pierre Wilbert Orelus ...
    Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances people, across various race, class, language, and gender lines, have. Utilizing dialogue as a form ... Read more

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