The proletariat never existed--but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the pr…
Offers a comprehensive study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews, contributors provide analyses of workplace struggles, trade unionism, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism, migration, gender, ag…
A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
A guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of protest and resistance.
The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitat…
By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers.
"This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affili…
By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers.
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskin's intellectual legacy to working men and wom…
