A signal work in contemporary race theory and the study of nationalism, Race, Nation, Class brings the conditions of presentday racism into focus. Situating racial and ethnic relations within the social structures maintained by nationalist ideologies, class interests, and veiled…
"Greg Buckman argues that economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. This is persuasively articulated in the first half of the book, where a comprehensible overview is provided of how globalization came about. Globalization is eminently reversible…
Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, this text offers a non-technical discussion of current thinking on these issues from the viewpoint of poor countries.
"In The Global Class War, Jeff Faux argues that the politics of the new world market is dominated by a virtual "Party of Davos," the globe-trotting network of corporate investors and CEOs, and the politicians and journalists who work on their behalf. Clinton and his treasury sec…
"The word 'crisis' denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the not…
Stéphane Hessel, cuyo alegato contra la indiferencia ha contribuido a desperezar las conciencias de miles y miles de indignados, proclama ahora la necesidad de comprometerse, desde la exigencia ética individual y con rechazo explícito a toda violencia. A través de una vibrante c…
Provides information for understanding the shifting structure of the global oil and gas economy: where the reserves lie, who produces what, trade patterns, consumption trends and prices. Highlights political and social issues in the global energy sector: the domestic inequality,…
USA. Monograph on the nature of management control over the working class through capitalist work organization - illustrates with historical case studies, the failure to establish workers self management, and social implications of automatic control, monopoly, personnel manageme…
"The period 1945-90 is analysed in terms of six main vectors: the interstate system, world production, the world labour force, world human welfare, the social cohesion of states, and the structures of knowledge. The book concludes with two global overviews: one for 1945-1990, an…
Case study of social conflict and the relationship between the rural area social structure and political behaviour of landless agricultural workers in the Kuttanad region of Kerala, India - analyses agricultural development, the agrarian structure, social class and caste intergr…
