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  • Class Attitudes in America
    Spencer Piston
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    27,75 €

  • After the Fire
    Alan Everett
    In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, the local parish church became a focal point of the relief effort, and a gathering place for a traumatised community. In the months that followed, it worked closely with other community and faith groups to provide a compassionate network of support.In this bold and prophetic challenge, Alan Everett shows that the church'...
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    24,19 €

  • Smash the Pillars
    Smash the Pillars explores the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory and resist the physical, epistemological, and psychological violence imposed by the Dutch state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. ...
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    135,72 €

  • We shall not be moved
    Brian Marren
    This critique explores six case studies which will illustrate how elements of a highly politicised local working-class fought against the rapid rise in forced redundancies and industrial closures. ...
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    36,84 €

  • Conflict Resolution
    Geoff Dyer
    Conflict resolution is the process of peacefully resolving any conflict by sharing information, understanding the cause of the conflict and diplomatic negotiation. Conflicts can be political or culture-based in nature. Counselling and mediation are also two effective policies for conflict management. This book studies, analyses and upholds the pillars of conflict resolution and...
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    168,37 €

  • Class Matters
    Charles Umney
    Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of ’ordinary working people’ and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis o...
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    127,12 €

  • ALTRUISM
    Valdemar Malin
    About Kindness, Altruism and Modern Altruism—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.Lungs breathe air, produce 99% of required oxygen and supply it to other organs. They keep some oxygen to sustain their life too. Yet, they are accused of egoism and self-interest by Mind. “Lungs must live for others—not themselves,” Mind demands. “Breathing is selfish and anti-social—1% owns all oxygen...
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    23,44 €

  • Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland
    Henryk Domański / Irina Tomescu-Dubrow / Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow / Kazimierz M Slomczynski / Kazimierz M. Slomczynski
    This book is about long-term changes to class and inequality in Poland. Drawing upon major social surveys, the team of authors from the Polish Academy of Sciences offer the rare comprehensive study of important changes to the social structure from the communist era to the present.The core argument is that, even during extreme societal transformations, key features of social lif...
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    114,81 €

  • The New Power Elite
    Alan Shipman / Bryan Turner / June Edmunds
    ’Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ’rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular or class-based rebellions in driving social change. ...
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    165,50 €

  • Working-Class Comic Book Heroes
    Marc DiPaolo
    Contributions by Phil Bevin, Blair Davis, Marc DiPaolo, Michele Fazio, James Gifford, Kelly Kanayama, Orion Ussner Kidder, Christina M. Knopf, Kevin Michael Scott, Andrew Alan Smith, and Terrence R. WandtkeIn comic books, superhero stories often depict working-class characters who struggle to make ends meet, lead fulfilling lives, and remain faithful to themselves and their own...
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    50,08 €

  • The Meritocracy Myth, Fourth Edition
    Stephen J McNamee / Stephen J. McNamee / Stephen JMcNamee
    The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy-that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as family background, social connections, luck, market conditions, unequal educationa...
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    135,98 €

  • The Meritocracy Myth, Fourth Edition
    Stephen J McNamee / Stephen J. McNamee / Stephen JMcNamee
    The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy-that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as family background, social connections, luck, market conditions, unequal educationa...
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    52,97 €

  • Power and Privilege in Roman Society
    Richard Duncan-Jones
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    38,07 €

  • No Longer Homeless
    David Wagner / Gemma Atticks
    Research suggests that between 6 and 14 percent of the US population has been homeless at some point in their lives-a huge number of people. No Longer Homeless shares the stories of people who have formerly been homeless to examine how they transition off the streets, find housing, and stay housed. No Longer Homeless offers a unique perspective of people who have managed to cha...
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    47,70 €

  • Unbanking of America
    Lisa Servon
    "[A] startling and absorbing expose . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contribution."--American ProspectWhy Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once ...
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    16,45 €

  • Communist Manifesto (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition) (2016)
    Friedrich Engels / Karl Marx
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one...
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    20,14 €

  • The State of State Theory
    Abbey S Willis / Abbey S. Willis / Abbey SWillis / Davita Silfen Glasberg / Deric Shannon
    In The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs. Using state projects and policies around political economy, sexuality an...
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    122,34 €

  • On Security, Peace and Equal Distribution of Wealth
    Chen Wu Chu
    On Security, Peace and Equal Distribution of Wealth is a collection of 30 essays on economics and management. The author, Chen Wu Chu, was a public servant doing secretarial work for the President of the Executive Yuan. He frequently composed investigative reports and analytical essays on economic, financial and social affairs for Cabinet members as decision-making references. ...
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    10,76 €

  • Narrativa proletaria norteamericana 1929-1941
    Emili Olcina i Aya
    La pobreza, el desempleo, los desahucios, el aumento de las desigualdades durante la Gran Depresión de 1929-1941 impulsaron en los Estados Unidos una literatura socialmente comprometida que cuestionaba el orden capitalista y la manera de gestionarlo.Lejos del maniqueísmo panfletario, la litetatura proletaria norteamericana de la década de los 1930 generó muchas obras maestras. ...
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    16,64 €

  • Precarious Work
    This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life. ...
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    244,05 €

  • The Beginnings of the Labor Unions
    Baby Professor
    Labor unions are groups of organized individuals that aim to protect and further their rights and interests. Before there were labor unions, there were issues of slavery, unsanitary working conditions and a high number of work-related illnesses and even deaths. So where did the idea of labor unions start? Who started the first labor union? Know the answers in this history book ...
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    18,19 €

  • Research on Economic Inequality
    This volume presents ten chapters that discuss the economics of poverty, inequality and welfare. They address how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. They consider both theoretical and empirical topics with special reference to developing countries. ...
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    209,99 €

  • Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement
    John Leveille
    Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement. John Leveille spent over nine months with Occupy Philadelphia as the members organized and carried out their protests. This book describes and analyzes the rise, the organization, and the demise of this group. The important events...
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    149,49 €

  • Deep Inequality
    Earl Wysong / Robert Perrucci
    Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world’s population owns nearly half the world’s wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other elements of life-from education to the media. The authors ar...
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    53,10 €

  • Inequalities in the UK
    This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and provides an up-to-date account of the distribution of inequalities, the evolving ways they are measured/addressed as well as the changing perception of inequalities by the general public and policy-makers. ...
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    184,96 €

  • Anarchism and Other Essays
    Emma Goldman
    Emma Goldman’s strident critique of capitalism and equally passionate defence of anarchy raised her from a penniless Jewish immigrant to ‘Red Emma’ - one of the most notorious ‘agitators’ and revolutionary feminists of her generation. Contrary to the popular conception of anarchists as violent, bomb-throwing purveyors of chaos, Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays shows the mov...
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    10,19 €

  • Mutual Aid
    Peter Kropotkin
    Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin’s most famous work, is both an Anarchist Classic and an important Biological treatise.  It was written as a direct rebuttal of T.H. Huxley’s ‘Hobbesian’ assertion that human society was a constant battle of “all against all”, and that civilisation only existed by imposition of order from above (an argument that was used by the ruling class to validat...
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    11,54 €

  • The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation
    Federico M. Rossi / Federico MRossi
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    134,25 €

  • Jack London
    Cecelia Tichi
    Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, ...
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    36,72 €

  • Capital, State, Empire
    Scott Timcke
    The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies.Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse and how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices a...
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    27,88 €


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