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  • Law at Work

    The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class

    In a series of illuminating essays, the renowned Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law has been used to ensure that workers' aspirations are kept in check. Law at Work uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the exploitation of workers. Using historic and contemporary examples, Glasbeek illustrates how conscious manipulations of law are part and ... Leer más

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  • Class Privilege

    How Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles Capitalism

    Capitalism’s agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In our system, the corporation—created by law—is meant to hide this agenda, to distract us so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. But when the workings of the corporation are examined, they reveal a betrayal of the very values and norms that, for their legitimacy’s sake, capitalists ... Leer más

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  • Capitalism: A Crime Story

    A mugger to a stranger, “Give me your wallet or I will beat you to pulp!” It is a crime.An employer says to a worker: “Adding lung-saving ventilation will reduce my profit. Give me back some of your wages and I will let you keep your lungs!” This is not a crime.Our assumptions about the world condition us to see these situations as legally different from one another. But what if we, the critics of ... Leer más

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  • Sick of the System

    Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

    Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke ... Leer más

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    Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it.Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich attempt to convert their wealth into political power, implicitly assuming that politics is isolated from ... Leer más

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  • Collective Access to Justice

    Assessing the Potential of Class Actions in England and Wales

    At a time when the collective redress landscape is undergoing a period of transformative change, this important and timely research focuses on class actions in England and Wales.The author provides an objective analysis of the costs and benefits of these proceedings from an access to justice perspective.Aiming to promote accessibility, this pioneering work separates fact from fiction in an easily ... Leer más

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  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,<... ... Leer más

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  • The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

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  • A People's Guide to Capitalism

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  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. ... Leer más

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