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Book SynopsisWhy do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? And, more controversially, were the trade unions only victims of neoliberal change, or did they play a more contradictory role? In How Labour Built Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Humphrys examines the role of the Labor Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia, and the implications of this for understanding neoliberalism’s global advance. These questions are central to understanding the present condition of the labour movement and its prospects for the future.Trade Review“In pointing out some of the unique characteristics of neoliberalism’s triumph in Australia, Humphrys enriches our understanding of the different pathways and contexts, including the incorporation of the labour movement, that can bring about such dramatic economic and social transformation in the interests of capital without massive social unrest.” – Sarah Gregson, in: Labour History 118 (May 2020) “How Labor Built Neoliberalism is a scholarly, erudite and persuasive account of Labor’s neoliberal turn and of the Accords. It should be widely read by labour historians, political economists, unionists and Labor politicians.” – Tim Lyons, in: Labour History 118 (May 2020) "[Humphrys'] critique offers both useful conceptual tools for understanding neoliberalism and an important caution in rushing towards the state for solutions. That is a challenge, particularly in Australia, where unions have often looked to political means to solve industrial problems. Her call also resonates with a growing number of critical voices within the union movement urging a renewed focus on industrial organising." — Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University, in: The Economic and Labour Relations Review (2020) "How Labour Built Neoliberalism is an important contribution to the critical study of a period of history that has largely escaped honest appraisal. It builds on the work of Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn and others, joining a small but important offering of literature that frankly explains the genesis of the unions’ current crisis. [...] How Labour Built Neoliberalism is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the context of today’s trade union crisis." — Steph Price, in: Marxist Left Review, Issue 18, Winter 2019 "[F]ind yourself a copy of How Labour Built Neoliberalism... [Humphrys] makes a serious, well-researched and persuasive case, which challenges a great deal that’s been written about the recent past. If you’re at all concerned about the state of the Australian left, you need to engage with her work." — Jeff Sparrow, in: Sydney Review of Books, 23 September 2019 "The book opens up a discussion about the contemporary ‘profound disorganisation of trade unions’ not with the end of lamenting that which has been lost but as the starting point for how workers can win back control over their lives. [...] How Labour Built Neoliberalism points to the dead-end that is resolving a crisis of capitalism on capitalist terms. This is the strategic value Humphrys’ work brings to the present predicament of the labour movement." — Godfrey Moase, in: Overland, 1 April 2019 "[…] I wish to pay a huge tribute to Liz Humphrys for her book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. This publication is hugely significant. I feel we have waited 30 years for this analysis." – Lee Rhiannon, in: Progress in Political Economy, 24 March 2019 "[...] Elizabeth Humphrys challenges the narrative that neo-liberalism was generally imposed onto labour by right-wing governments such as the Thatcher government in the UK and the Reagan government in the US during the 1980s. Through a detailed analysis of the Australian political economy between 1983 and 1996, she demonstrates how restructuring was also carried out by a Labour Party in close co-operation with trade unions. [...] Written in a beautiful and highly accessible prose, she makes clear that trade unions are not automatically progressive or reactionary. Ultimately, trade unions too are sites of class struggle, which decides on whether a particular trade union is a force for social justice or not. [...] Humphrys’ book is a must-read in guiding our explorations of this question and the search for alternative, progressive strategies." — Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of Nottingham, UK, in: Progress in Political Economy, 14 January 2019 "This book offers a groundbreaking account of the transition to neoliberalism in Australia, focusing on the role of the Labor Party and the trade unions in the economic, social and policy shifts involved in that transition. The book is scholarly and informative, and it sets the standard for studies of neoliberal transitions elsewhere. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the emergence of neoliberalism in Australia, or the contradictory role trade unions can play during an economic crisis." — Alfredo Saad Filho, King's College London "Humphry’s brilliant How Labour Built Neoliberalism utterly transforms our understanding of modern Australian politics and compels us to rethink established ideas about the role of the trade union movement in the making of neoliberalism. I consider this to be a landmark work in Australian political sociology and an invaluable contribution to the literature on global neoliberalism." — Melinda Cooper, University of Sydney, Author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017) “Elizabeth Humphrys’s How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project is a well-organized book that takes up the role of organized labor and the Australian Labour Party (ALP) in the construction of Australian neoliberalism, focusing on a social contract between the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the ALP called ‘‘the Accord,’’ between 1983 and 1996… [The book] is a valuable, theoretically grounded, well-documented analysis of the role of labor-left in Australia’s neoliberalization.” – Stephanie L. Mudge, University of California-Davis, in: Contemporary Sociology 50/1 (2021) “The great strength of Humphrys’ book is its almost forensic examination of what others have said and why the evidence suggest we need to tell a quite different story. This book is crisply and clearly written.” – Rob Watts, in: Journal of Australian Political Economy 86 (2020/2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1The ALP & ACTU Accord  2The Social Contract’s Gala Dinner  3Neoliberalism’s Corporatist Origins  4A Hegemonic Political Project  5Corporatist ‘involucro’  6A Note on Method  7Structure of the Book 2 Theorising the State–Civil Society Relationship  1Introduction  1.1Some Preliminary Comments  2Marx’s Critique of Hegel  3From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy  4From Marx to Gramsci  4.1Lo stato integrale  5Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration  6Conclusion 3 Corporatism in Australia  1Introduction  2Understanding Corporatism  3Panitch’s Approach  4Corporatism and the Accord  5The Context of Arbitration  6Conclusion 4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative  1Introduction  1.1Conceptual Diversity  2The Dominant Narrative  2.1Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism  2.2Klein: The Shock Doctrine  2.3Peck, Theodore, Tickell and Brenner: ‘Neoliberalisation’  2.4Destabilising the Dominant Narrative  3A Class Approach to Neoliberalism  3.1Harvey: ‘The restoration of class power’  3.2Davidson: ‘An entirely new political regime’  3.3A Hegemonic Political Project  4Conclusion 5 Periodising Neoliberalism  1Introduction  2Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia  3Proto-neoliberal stage: 1973–1983  3.1The Economic Crisis  3.2The Whitlam Government  3.3The Fraser Government  4Vanguard Neoliberal Stage: 1983–1993  4.1The Impasse of the 1970s  4.2Developing the Accord  5Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993–2008  5.1Howard’s Piecemeal Neoliberalism  6Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards  7Conclusion 6 The Disorganisation of Labour  1Introduction  2The Accord Agreement  3Wages and the Accord  3.1The First Accord (1983)  3.2Accord Mark II (1985–1987)  3.3Accord Mark III (1986–1987)  3.4Accord Mark IV (1988–1989), V (1989–1990) & VI (1990–1993)  3.5Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only)  4Wage Suppression  4.1Labour Disorganisation  5Conclusion 7 An Integral State  1Introduction  2Accord Divergences  2.1The National Economic Summit and Communiqué  2.2Prices  2.3‘Big bang’ and Other Neoliberal Reforms  2.4Trade Liberalisation  3Privatisation  4Social Wage and Contested Understandings  4.1Medicare  4.2Superannuation  4.3Worth the Cost?  5The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord  5.1A Brace against Neoliberalism?  5.2Theorising the Corporatism–Neoliberalism Connection  5.3An ‘informal Accord’?  5.4The Accord asinvolucro  6Conclusion 8 How Labour Made Neoliberalism  1Introduction  2From Worker Agency to State Agency  2.1The Shift to Support the Accord  2.2Planning as a Solution to Crisis?  2.3Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord  2.4Sticking with the Accord  2.5Industry policy and Australia Reconstructed  3Managing Dissent and Disorganising Labour  3.1Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes  3.2Deregistration of the Builders Labourers’ Federation  3.3Pilots’ Dispute  4Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord  4.1Hegemony Unravelling  5Conclusion 9 A Return to the International  1Introduction  2A Brief Detour in the Antipodes  3The British Social Contract (1974–1979)  4The Carter Administration (1977–1981) and Prior  5New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975–1981)  6Contemporary Finland  7Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk  1Internal Relations  2Antinomies and Residues  3Neoliberalism at Dusk Appendices    Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU References Index

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Book SynopsisVicente Lombardo Toledano was the founder of numerous labour union organisations in Mexico and Latin America between the 1920s to the 1960s. He was not only an organiser but also a broker between the unions, the government, and business leaders, able to disentangle difficult conflicts. He cooperated closely with the governments of Mexico and other Latin American nations and worked with the representatives of the Soviet Union when he considered it useful. As a result he was alternately seen as a government stooge or a communist, even though he was never a member of the party or of the Mexican government administration. Daniela Spenser's is the first biography of Lombardo Toledano based on his extensive private papers, on primary sources from European, Mexican and American archives, and on personal interviews. Her even-keeled portrayal of the man counters previous hagiographies and/or vilifications.Trade Review"Spenser provides a highly readable portrait of Lombardo Toledano, deftly navigating the complexities of Mexican domestic politics and global ideological crosscurrents. She is remarkably balanced, giving us insights into her subject’s worldview while not hesitating to present him in a critical light. [...] In Combat offers a clear and coherent view of a figure who stood at the heart of Mexico’s twentieth century." – Tony wood, Princeton University, in: HAHR (February, 2022), doi 10.1215/00182168-9497668 “… there is no doubt that Spenser has written a tome that will be cited for years to come. This work will prove useful not only to scholars interested in Lombardo Toledano himself but also to those who seek to learn more about postrevolutionary Mexico, Latin American labor movements, and even the transnational influence of the Soviet Union.” – Nathan Ellstrand, Loyola University Chicago, in: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (May, 2021) [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Changing Times and Ideas 1 Family  1 The Village  2 Children  3 Vicente Lombardo Toledano  4 The Wise Man  5 The Family 2 Knowledge and Power  1 Renewal  2 The Break  3 On the Campaign Trail  4 From the Government Palace  5 On the Road to the Chamber of Deputies  6 The Trip  7 The Polemical Dispute  8 Ideological Passion 3 Exodus  1 In the CROM  2 Collapse  3 The Labour Law  4 The Road to the Left Part 2 Crusades 4 A Journey into the World of the Future  1 The Preparations  2 The Trip  3 Different Perspectives  4 Back in Mexico  5 The President and the Leader  6 The Gide Case 5 The Foundations of the Nation  1 The Preparations  2 The First Pillar  3 Into Action  4 The Schism  5 Disunity  6 The President and the Leader 6 A Continental Feat  1 In Santiago de Chile  2 The Planning  3 In the United States  4 In Europe  5 The Founding Congress  6 To the Attack Part 3 War: Threshold of a Better World? 7 Fight Fascism!  1 The Defeat of the Spanish Republic  2 Exile  3 Face to Face with Leon Trotsky  4 The Pact and Its Violation  5 In Soviet Intelligence  6 The Undesirable Anti-fascists 8 The Illusory Unity  1 On the Campaign Trail  2 The Victory  3 The Farewell  4 The Re-election  5 The Elusive Unity 9 The Fragile Harmony  1 The Latin American Panorama  2 The Congress  3 The Celebrated Trip  4 The Catavi Massacre  5 Coups and Blows  6 From Montevideo to Caracas  7 From Philadelphia to Cali  8 The Elusive Harmony Part 4 Animosities and Confrontations 10 For the Renewal of the Nation  1 The Future  2 On the Campaign Trail  3 The Roundtable  4 Elections in the CTM  5 The Expulsion  6 The Crisis of the Nation 11 For the Spilled Blood  1 The Postwar Map  2 In London  3 In Paris  4 In the Other Europe  5 Confrontations  6 In People’s China 12 Emancipation  1 Removing Obstacles  2 On an Inspection Tour  3 In Lima  4 The Third Congress  5 The Oil Workers  6 Failed Emancipation Part 5 On the Fronts of the Cold Peace 13 Rearmament  1 The People’s Party  2 UGOCM  3 Back on the Campaign Trail  4 Aftermath of Defeat  5 The Succession  6 The Cold Peace 14 Mission Completed  1 Anti-communist Liberalism  2 Liberal Internationalism  3 In Decline  4 The CTAL Dies in Bucharest  5 The CTAL Completed Its Historic Mission 15 The Road to 1968  1 PPS  2 Against the Current  3 On the Final Campaign Trail  4 Schism in the Party  5 1968 Epilogue: Testament and Testimonies Bibliography and Works Cited Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn a world of constant change, the ongoing education and empowerment of women is a transformation of profound significance. In the UAE, and in Dubai in particular, the emergence of women into positions of leadership has accelerated over the past thirty years and continues to gather pace, reflecting a worldwide trend. Emirati women's entry into leadership positions in all fields has resulted in social and economic benefits across education, health, commerce and community services – all of which have strengthened the role of women at the grassroots level. As the world grows smaller, the global circle of opportunity for women grows wider. Throughout the UAE and all across the globe women are assuming their rightful place as leaders in education and in society. The authors conducted a ten-year collaborative narrative research project culminating in a book of jointly constructed stories of five exceptional female Emirati educational leaders. The five women from Dubai are Raja Al Gurg, Raya Rashid, Fatima Al Marri, Rafia Abbas, and Rashida Badri. Through stories of lived experience, this book recognizes the expertise and contributions of these women to the fields of education and leadership; provides exemplars for educators; demonstrates to younger generations what successes and challenges this generation of women faced in order to achieve recognition as successful women and members of the local, regional, and global community; and makes their leadership perspectives and experiences accessible and engaging for all types of audiences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction About the Authors 1 Narrative Inquiry as Critical Social Research  1 Considerations and Challenges in Narrative Inquiry 2 Contextual Background of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)  1 The Educational Context  2 The Family Context  3 Women’s Leadership in the UAE  4 Leadership in Business  5 Leadership in Politics  6 Conclusion 3 Perspectives on Leadership  1 Introduction  2 Situational Leadership  3 Transformational Leadership  4 Servant Leadership  5 Shared Leadership  6 Positive Leadership  7 Leading Learning and Teaching  8 Educational Leadership from an Islamic Perspective  9 Gender and Leadership  10 Conclusion 4 Raya Rashid (Um Dalmook)  1 Raya’s Story 5 Raja Al Gurg  1 Raja’s Story 6 Rafia Abbas  1 Rafijia’s Story 7 Rashida Badri  1 Rashida’s Story  2 Facing up to the Challenges  3 The Golden Days  4 Head of Department, Dubai Zone  5 Assistant Director for Private Education  6 Greenwood School, Dubai 8 Fatma Al Marri  1 Fatma’s Story 9 Family, Realizing Potential and Relationships  1 Family Relationships and Encouragement  2 Realizing Their Own Leadership Potential and That of Others  3 The Use of Relational Leadership Practices  4 Conclusion Glossary of Terms References

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Book Synopsis“What might the futures of practice be like?” is far from a straightforward question. Emphasising "the" before the word future, implies one future. But futures thinkers have identified a range of futures that people think about. In this book we reflect on possible, probable, and preferable futures in relation to practice and work. Readers are invited to consider how their own engagement in shaping possible futures will support ways of working that they deem preferable, even those they can hardly imagine. Challenging Future Practice Possibilities also examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change. Authors consider the major challenges that practice and practitioners face today such as wicked problems, fears for the future and complex demands and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. A number of examples of future-oriented work directions such as protean careers and artificial intelligence enhancing or even replacing human workforces, are considered along with concerns like the vulnerability of many work situations and workers. In some cases workers and employers alike are unprepared for these challenges, while others see adapting to these situations as yet another pathway of practice futures evolution.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part 1: Grappling with Practice Futures 1 Exploring Practice in Context  Joy Higgs 2 Thinking the Unthinkable: Challenges of Imagining and Engaging with Unimaginable Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall 3 Plausible Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Kristin Alford 4 The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures  Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite 5 The Changing Face of Work: Considering Business Models and the Employment Market  Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones Part 2: Practice and the Common Good 6 Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us  Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs 7 Our Place in Society and the Environment: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Professional Practice Futures  Steven Cork 8 Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency: Our Gaps, Our Leaps  Sandy O’Sullivan 9 Changing Work Realities: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces  Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes 10 Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts  Megan Conway and Joy Higgs Part 3: Pursuing Practice Futures 11 The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices  Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs 12 Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media: Exploring the Potential of LinkedIn  Ruth Bridgstock 13 Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways: Starting to Realise Tomorrow’s Practices Today  Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich 14 Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk: An Exploration in the Creative Industries  Noel Maloney 15 Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future  Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon 16 Facing Recruitment Challenges: Entering Workplace Practices  James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins 17 PhDs and Future Practice  Bernadine Van Gramberg 18 Educational Innovations: Preparing for Future Work  Asheley Jones 19 Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions)  Janice Orrell and Julie Ash 20 Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures  Thomas Carey, Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush Part 4: Reflections 21 Reflections about Work: What Might Be My Future Practice Roles?  Joy Higgs Notes on Contributors

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Book Synopsis“What might the futures of practice be like?” is far from a straightforward question. Emphasising "the" before the word future, implies one future. But futures thinkers have identified a range of futures that people think about. In this book we reflect on possible, probable, and preferable futures in relation to practice and work. Readers are invited to consider how their own engagement in shaping possible futures will support ways of working that they deem preferable, even those they can hardly imagine. Challenging Future Practice Possibilities also examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change. Authors consider the major challenges that practice and practitioners face today such as wicked problems, fears for the future and complex demands and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. A number of examples of future-oriented work directions such as protean careers and artificial intelligence enhancing or even replacing human workforces, are considered along with concerns like the vulnerability of many work situations and workers. In some cases workers and employers alike are unprepared for these challenges, while others see adapting to these situations as yet another pathway of practice futures evolution.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part 1: Grappling with Practice Futures 1 Exploring Practice in Context  Joy Higgs 2 Thinking the Unthinkable: Challenges of Imagining and Engaging with Unimaginable Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall 3 Plausible Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Kristin Alford 4 The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures  Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite 5 The Changing Face of Work: Considering Business Models and the Employment Market  Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones Part 2: Practice and the Common Good 6 Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us  Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs 7 Our Place in Society and the Environment: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Professional Practice Futures  Steven Cork 8 Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency: Our Gaps, Our Leaps  Sandy O’Sullivan 9 Changing Work Realities: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces  Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes 10 Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts  Megan Conway and Joy Higgs Part 3: Pursuing Practice Futures 11 The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices  Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs 12 Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media: Exploring the Potential of LinkedIn  Ruth Bridgstock 13 Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways: Starting to Realise Tomorrow’s Practices Today  Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich 14 Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk: An Exploration in the Creative Industries  Noel Maloney 15 Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future  Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon 16 Facing Recruitment Challenges: Entering Workplace Practices  James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins 17 PhDs and Future Practice  Bernadine Van Gramberg 18 Educational Innovations: Preparing for Future Work  Asheley Jones 19 Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions)  Janice Orrell and Julie Ash 20 Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures  Thomas Carey, Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush Part 4: Reflections 21 Reflections about Work: What Might Be My Future Practice Roles?  Joy Higgs Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of offshoring production occur in social, political and economic processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital, modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in which offshoring production infiltrates local communities. Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, sociology, anthropology, and East European studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction: the Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks  1 The Post-socialist Workforce in Global Production  2 Offshoring Studies  3 Social Reproduction and Offshoring  4 Ethnography of Foreign Investment  5 The Investor and the Region  6 The Structure of this Book 1 Romania’s Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform  1 Ad-hoc Transition (1989–1996)  2 The Period of Market Orientation (1996–2004)  3 The Period of European Integration (2004–2009)  4 Global Economic Crisis and Neoliberal Rule (2009–2014)  5 Conclusions 2 The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production  1 Nokia Village Plans  2 Factory Closure in Germany  3 The Opening 3 A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation  1 Joining a Capitalist Workplace  2 Cultural Specificity of the Workplace and Worker Socialisation  3 Workplace Adaptation  4 Cultural Specificity and the Offshored Workplace 4 Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process  1 Lubricating the Taylorist Workplace  2 Limiting Control and Political Intimacies at Work  3 Epistemic Holes, Humour and Storytelling  4 Conclusions 5 Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour  1 Prior to Investment  2 Mutual Dependencies  3 Emancipatory Forces  4 Intergenerational Exceptionalism  5 Mutual Dependency in a Broader Context 6 Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure  1 The Good Investor’s Bad Decisions  2 Social Mobilization  3 What the Plant Changed 7 Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour  1 The Secrecy of the Contract  2 Smartphone Controversy  3 Romania in the Global Economy  4 The New Investor  5 Discussion: National Reaction to the Issue of Relocation Conclusions: Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis translated volume is based on the Chinese publication Green Book of Population and Labor (No. 18). It focuses on the new era of economic growth fueled primarily by innovation and entrepreneurship, and corresponding developments in China’s employment landscape. Chapter one offers an overview of China’s new economy. Chapter two examines emerging trends in both the labor and the job markets. Changes to labor relations under the new economy are discussed in chapter three, followed by two chapters that look closely at the role China’s largest online ride-hailing service provider has played in shaping the workforce and in job creation. The final chapter reports on current policy support for innovative industries, and makes recommendations.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 The New Economy: Concepts, Characteristics, and Their Effects on China’s Growth and Employment  Zhang Juwei, Zhao Wen, and Wang Boya 2 Economic Transformation and New Employment  Xiang Jing 3 An Analysis of the Changes to Labor Relations under the New Economy  Xie Qianyun 4 Employment and Work on Online Ride-Hailing Platforms: a Study of Didi Platform Data  Wu Qingjun, Yang Weiguo, Wang Qi, and Chen Xiaofei 5 The Role of Platform-Based Companies in Creating Employment Opportunities for Laid-Off Workers from Overcapacity Industries: a Case Study of the Didi Chuxing Platform  Zhang Chenggang 6 Policy Support System for Innovative Industries  Cai Yifei and Wang Boya Index

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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers’ Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of Bolsonaro neofascism. The author maintains that the Party and ideological conflicts present in the Brazilian politics are linked to the class distributive conflicts present in the Brazilian society. Defeated for the fourth consecutive time in the presidential election, the political parties representing the international capital and segments of the bourgeoisie and of the middle class, abandoned the rules of the democratic game to end the Workers' Party government cycle. They paved the way for the rise of neofascism.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition List of Tables and Charts part 1 Reform and Social Classes in the pt Governments 1 State, Bourgeoisie, and Neoliberalism in the Lula Government  1 The Bloc in Power in the Neoliberal Period  2 The Political Ascension of the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Agribusiness under the Lula Government  3 Political Rise, but No Hegemony Established  4 The Political Regime and the Hegemony of Financial Capital  5 Final Considerations 2 The Lula Governments The New “National Bourgeoisie” in Power  1 fhc, Lula, and Disputes within the Bourgeoisie  2 The Political Relations of the Big Internal Bourgeoisie with the Lula Government  3 Contradictions within the Internal Bourgeoisie and the Neodevelopmentalist Front 3 The Political Bases of Neodevelopmentalism  1 The Neodevelopmentalist Political Front  2 The Neodevelopmentalist Program  3 The Classes and Class Fractions Integrating the Neodevelopmentalist Front  4 The Contradictions in the Core of the Front 4 Lulism, Populism, and Bonapartism  1 The Concepts  2 Varguism and Lulism  3 Bonapartism and Lulism 5 Neodevelopmentalism, Social Classes, and Foreign Policy in the pt Governments  1 The Bloc in Power and the Neodevelopmentalist Political Front  2 Foreign Policy and the Neodevelopmentalist Front  3 Conclusion 6 Neodevelopmentalism and the Recovery of the Brazilian Union Movement  1 Neodevelopmentalism and the Union Movement  2 The Union Movement’s Political Moderation  3 The Growth of the Strike Struggle  4 Final Considerations part 2 The Nature and Dynamics of the Crisis that Led to the Impeachment 7 The Political Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Instability of Democracy  1 The Political Crisis  2 The Neoliberal Bourgeois Offensive  3 The Participation of the Upper Middle Class  4 The Presence of the Working Classes  5 The Instability of Democracy  6 The Government’s Reaction and the Popular Movement 8 State, State Institutions, and Political Power in Brazil  1 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances  2 The Political Regime and the Contradictions within the State Bureaucracy  3 bndes, Petrobras, and the Big Internal Bourgeoisie  4 Judicial Institutions, the Associated Bourgeoisie, and the Upper Middle Class  5 Final Considerations 9 Operation Car Wash, the Middle Class, and State Bureaucracy  1 The State’s Social Function, Social Classes, and Bureaucracy  2 Operation Car Wash and the Middle Class  3 The Middle Class and Corruption 10 The Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Dilma Rousseff Government  1 A Couple of Things to Learn from the Crisis  2 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances  3 The Political Crisis 11 Why was the Resistance to the 2016 Coup D’état so Weak?  1 The Internal Bourgeoisie was Divided in the Face of the Coup  2 The Marginal Mass of Workers Remained Passive  3 The Unionized Workers were Neutralized  4 After the Coup   Afterword Bolsonaro and the Rise of Neofascism  1 When Can We Speak of Fascism?  2 Bolsonarism is One of the Species of the Fascism Genre  3 The Bolsonaro Government and the Originating Political Crisis  4 Fascism and Bourgeoisie: Unity, Conflicts, and Conciliation  5 Final Considerations Bibliography Index 220

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Book SynopsisIn Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Trade Review"Denise Kasparian’s Co-operative Struggles provides an in-depth study of two worker co-operatives in the Buenos Aires area today to reveal how co-operatives emerge, are governed, and disappear. She successfully confronts people’s implicit assumptions about co-operatives with observations from everyday realities of working in Argentinian worker co-operatives in the 2000s and 2010s. Her research thereby puts several dominant myths about the co-operative economy into perspective [...] Sociological research provides a litmus test that checks which myths have become invalid or are not applicable to a particular economic sector. Kasparian has admirably shown how such a test would work in the specific political and economic conjuncture of contemporary Argentina". Tim Christiaens, in Critical Sociology, 8 April 2022. Critical Sociology “El libro amplía los horizontes teóricos sobre el conflict laboral, proponiendo nuevas categorías para visibilizar y conceptualizar las contiendas en el nuevo cooperativismo de trabajo del siglo XXI”. In Centro de Estudios de Sociología del TrabajoUniversidad de Buenos Aires, 21/04/2022. "This book, made up of two unlikely types of cooperatives, one formed voluntarily and the other formed through state-sponsorship, contributes to the literature of self-management and co-operatives and provides a deeper understanding that aspects of the democratization of conflict in co-operatives are context-specific. Future research should deepen and expand the study of self-management and conflict in the broader ecosystem of worker-recuperated, state-sponsored and traditional worker co-operatives, and thus contribute further to generalizable ideas about self-management." Stefan Ivanovski, in ILR Review, ILR ReviewTable of ContentsForeword The Democratisation of Conflict Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Images Introduction  1 The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives  2 Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-productive Contexts  3 The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole That Acts as a Whole  4 The Structure of the Book 1 Co-operatives ‘Made in Argentina’ The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by Their Workers  1 The Socio-genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation  1.1 When Worker Resistance Becomes an Offensive Movement  1.2 The Widespread Crisis of 2001–2002, or Adding Fuel to the Fire  1.3 The Movement of the Flames  2 The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes  2.1 The Fuel of the Growing Economy Keeps the Flames of Production Moving  2.2 The Moral Economy of Work in the Continued Presence of Enterprise Recuperations  2.3 “Argentina Is One Big, Recuperated Factory”: Public Policies for Recuperated Enterprises  2.4 The Movement’s Fragmentation, Co-operative Convergence and Union Rapprochement 2 Incubated Co-operatives Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme  1 Social Schemes with Work Requirement: From Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme  2 The Mediation of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives  3 The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme’s Socio-genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics  4 Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations  4.1 The Evolution of the Argentina Works Programme  4.2 The Intensity and Dynamics of Contentious Action  4.3 The Demands and Forms of Contentious Action 3 Keeping and Having a Job A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts  1 ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’ … and Have!  2 From ‘Induction’ to the ‘Co-operative without Brokers’  3 A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts 4 The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production  1 Recuperators, Activists and the ‘Born and Bred’  2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour  3 The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises  4 The Political Dimension: Between Self-management and Delegation  5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations 5 The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production  1 The Labour and Socio-spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers  2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy  3 The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation  4 The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management  5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists 6 The Production of Co-operative Conflict  1 Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process  2 Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: From ‘Founder Members’ to ‘Founderer Members’  3 “We Fought over the River Module”: The Conflict over Autonomous Work  4 Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation  5 A Comparative Lens 7 Conclusions  1 The New Twenty-First-Century Co-Operativism and Its Struggles Around Work  2 What Patterns of Conflicts are There without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives  3 From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research Questions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe situation of young people in Europe has been significantly impacted by recent changes that have taken place in the job market. Young people’s life trajectories and transitions to adulthood are increasingly less linear, more segmented, and more reversible, with a rise in unemployment and the NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) phenomenon. This book aims to investigate the youth policies implemented in Europe and how they are integrated in the socio-economic contexts of the various member states and their welfare regimes, educational systems, and skills markets. A significant number of young adults neither study nor work, and live in a constant state of discouragement and inactivity, giving up on their search for job opportunities. The strategic choices implemented at the European level in response to this problem promote ALMPs (Active Labour Market Policies), including the creation of the Youth Guarantee Program, which is examined here both at the European level and, specifically, in the Italian context.Table of ContentsYouth Policies and Unemployment in Europe  Paola Giannoni Abstract Keywords Introduction 1 The Situation of Young Adults in Europe  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Changes in the Situation for Young Adults  1.3 Youth Studies: Different Analytical Perspectives  1.4 Regimes of Welfare Transition and Regimes of Youth Policies  1.5 The Youth Population in Europe: Family, Education, and Training Conditions  1.6 Conclusions 2 Youth Unemployment and Dynamics of the Labour Market  2.1 Introduction  2.2 The European Socio-economic Context  2.3 Youth Unemployment in Europe  2.4 Not in Education, Employment or Training: The NEET Phenomenon  2.5 NEETs in Europe  2.6 Conclusions 3 European Union Policies Designed to Combat Youth Unemployment  3.1 Introduction  3.2 The European Youth Strategy  3.3 EU Active Labour Market Policies  3.4 The Youth Guarantee Program in Europe  3.5 Education Policies and the Skills Market: The School-To-Work Transition  3.6 Conclusions 4 Young People and the Labour Market in Southern Europe: The Case of Italy  4.1 Introduction  4.2 The Reforms of the Labour Market in Italy  4.3 The Sub-protective Welfare State and the Youth Population  4.4 Youth Unemployment and the NEET Phenomenon at the Time of Covid-19  4.5 A Case of ALMP: The Youth Guarantee Program in Italy  4.6 Conclusions Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisIn Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the economic breakdown that has characterised the last two decades of capitalist development – from the Lehman collapse to the Covid-19 pandemic – with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality. The book provides a materialist account of the current global crisis of overproduction and looks at the link between capitalist crisis and systemic inequity, making the case through detailed quantification that the principal engine of these structural phenomena is in fact the general law of accumulation of the capitalist mode of production.Trade Review"The Authors have written a book that is pleasant o read and represents the fruit of years of scientific research already published in important journals, especially about the analysis of inequalities." Stefano Lucarelli, in Review of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy "Schettino and Clementi’s book shows in great detail that, in the capitalist system, the accumulation of capital goes hand in hand with the accumulation of poverty. This system, based on the indiscriminate exploitation of man and nature, today reveals all its contradictions, perhaps more than ever before." Domenico Suppa, in SINAPPSI Journal, March 2023 SINAPPSI JournalTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables 1 The Nature of the Crisis  1 Underconsumption, Prices and Profits  2 Excess Commodities, Excess Needs  3 Pressure to Purchase, Debt and Speculation  4 Financial Speculation and the Ratings Agencies  5 Currency Conflict 2 Dollar vs. Euro From the 2010 Attack to the final surrender of 2015  1 An Evening in Manhattan  2 The Spectre of Speculation  3 The Final Surrender: The Greek Clinamen  4 ttip, tpp and Global Conflict 3 A Flood of Liquidity From qe towards a New Despotic Management of Capitalism  1 ‘Hostile Brothers’ and Fictitious Capital  2 Quantitative Easing (qe)  3 The Effects of Quantitative Easing  4 Capitalism’s Addiction Problem  5 When It Rains, It Pours  6 Capital’s New Despotism 4 Income Distribution Concepts, Analytical Tools and Empirical Evidence  1 Income Distribution  1.1 Basic Concepts  1.2 Representing Income Distribution  2 Global Income Distribution  2.1 Income Distribution in Italy   3 Economic Inequality  3.1 Measuring Inequality  3.2 Relative vs. Absolute Inequality  3.3 Inequality in the World  4 Income Inequality in Italy  4.1 The Causes of Inequality  5 Poverty: Definition and Measurement  6 Defining Poverty  6.1 Standard of living  6.2 Uni- and Multidimensional Poverty  6.3 Relative and Absolute Poverty  7 Poverty Lines  7.1 Measuring Poverty  7.2 Poverty in the World  7.3 Poverty in Italy   8 Income Polarisation  8.1 Definition  8.2 Inequality and Income Polarisation  8.3 Measuring Income Polarisation  8.4 Income Polarisation in Practice 5 The Effects of the Crisis on Poverty and Inequality  1 More People in Poverty?  2 A Less Equal World? 6 Pandemic, Crisis, Inequality and Conflict  1 The Crisis Scenario Pre Covid 19  2 Epidemic, Misery, Inequality and Conflict 7 Afterword Socialism or Barbarism: Where Do We Go from Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty?   Haider A. Khan References Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed rich case studies from the world outside of North America, Europe, and Australasia. Each contribution converges on the enduring and expanding significance of informal and precarious work within the Global South—the most significant factor in preventing a worldwide decent work agenda.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness PART 1: South-West Asia 1 Between Precarity, Invisibility and Gendered Insecurity: The Prospects of Home-Based Garment Work in Turkey  Safak Tartanoglu Bennett 2 Migrant Labour, State and Mobility-Effort Bargaining in Saudi Capitalism  Ayman Adham and Anita Hammer PART 2: Africa 3 Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s  Bridget Kenny 4 Informal Work and Intersectionality: Understanding Worker’s Exclusion in Two Tanzanian Sectors  Ilona Steiler PART 3: South Asia 5 Conceptualising Informality in late 19th Century Colonial North India: The Case of Famine Labour  Amal Shahid 6 The Labour Process and Informal Wage Labour in Karnataka’s Automotive Sector  Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra Kishore Mishra 7 Precarious Self Employment in India: A Case of Non-agriculture Own Account Workers  Danisha Kazi 8 Reformation of Cinnamon Peelers’ Identity in Sri Lanka  Shanka P. Dharmapala PART 4: South-East Asia 9 Hidden Processes of Informalization. Losing Legal Rights in the Cambodian Garment Industry  Anna Salmivaara PART 5: Latin America 10 Digital Resistance to Algorithmic Exploitation: Twitter Activism of Argentine Delivery Platform Workers During the Covid 19 Pandemic  Rodolfo Elbert and Sofía Negri 11 Unevenly Protected. Institutional Protections for Domestic Workers in Argentina  Lorena Poblete 12 Precarious Labour, Migration and Collective Politics in the Garment Industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina  Dolores Señorans Epilogue  Anita Hammer and Immanuel Ness Index

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Book SynopsisEast, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world’s hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world’s fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production processes. In the 21st century, Asian peasants produce more than 60 percent of the regional food supply, but their survival is threatened by hunger, public depreasantization policies, climate change, land grabbing, urbanization and debt bondage.Trade Review"Where Shrimp Eat Better than People offers a powerful critique of the global-industrial food regime, through the lens of the fish trade’s exploitation of Asian fisherfolk and extractive dietary impacts on fishing communities. Ethnographic and socio-ecological analysis of a Philippine coastal region reveals processes of global nutritional bifurcation as local self-provisioning declines. This is a timely and remarkable exposé of the dialectic of impoverishment via enrichment along corporate food supply chains." Philip McMichael, Cornell University.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction  1 Scholarly Significance and Investigative Goals  2 Methods of Inquiry and Areas of Study  3 What Do We Promise Readers Conceptually?  4 Organization of the Book 1 The Asian Fishery Crisis, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Food Insecurity  1 Trends in Asian Fishery Production and Nutritional Shortfalls  2 Investigative Questions  3 Conflict between Food Security and Food/Fishery Exporting  4 Dependence on Imports as Threat to Food Security  5 Nonfoods and Asian Food Security  6 Will Aquaculture Solve Asian Protein and Iron Shortfalls?  7 Food Security and Pressures toward Depeasantization  8 Ecological Degradation of Asian Fisheries and Food Insecurity  9 Intra-national Inequalities in Food Access  10 Impacts of Wastage on Food Security  11 Looking to Future Chapters 2 Debt, Resource Exploitation and Integration into the World Agro-Food System  1 The Role of External Development Agencies  2 Philippine Elites and Economic Restructuring  3 Government Promotion of Agricultural Exports  4 Government Promotion of Capture Fishing for Export  5 Government Promotion of Acquaculture for Export  6 Ecological Impacts of the Philippine Agro-Industrial Export Strategy  7 Looking to the Future 3 Globalized Food and Asian Hunger The Philippine Case  1 Privileging Exports over Local Consumption  2 Import Dependence and Risks to Food Security  3 Transformation of Foods into Nonfoods  4 Class Polarization and Inequalities in Food Access  5 Looking to the Future 4 Commodity-Chained Peasants Construction of the Philippine Food Extractive Enclave 166  1 Transformation of Panguil Bay Agriculture  2 Transformation of Capture Fishing  3 Transformation and Expansion of Aquaculture  4 Integrating the Panguil Bay Fishery into National and Global Commodity Chains  5 Is Philippine Fish Marketing Culturally Unique?  6 Ecological Impacts of Global Integration  7 Food Insecurity in Panguil Bay Communities  8 Looking to the Future 5 The World Does Not Weep for Us Semiproletarianized Households, Nonwaged Labor and Depeasantization  1 Hidden Household Subsidies to Export Commodity Chains  2 Conceptualizing Capitalist Externalization of Costs to Households  3 Externalization of Costs to Peasant Fishing Communities  4 Pressures to Depeasantize Panguil Bay  5 Debt Bondage as Externalized Cost  6 Threats to Peasant Livelihoods  7 Alteration and Intensification of Women’s Work  8 “The Shrimp Live Better Than We Do”: Threats to Human Survival  9 Looking to the Future 6 Endlessly Toiling The Gendered Inequalities of Fisher Household Survival  1 Conceptualizing the Semiproletarian Portfolio of Diverse Labors  2 Inequitable Management of Scarce Labor Time  3 Arrangement of Household Credit  4 Restructuring Household Boundaries  5 Inequitable Pooling and Allocation of Household Resources  6 Conflict over Household Budget Management  7 Looking to the Future 7 Climate Change, Land Grabbing and the Future of Asian Food Security  1 Climate Change, Peasant Persistence and Asian Food Security  2 Land Grabbing and Asian Food Security  3 Conclusion 8 Propping Up the World Food System The Future of Hungry Asian Farmers and Fishers  1 Looking toward the Future of Asian Food Insecurity  2 Peasant Contributions to Asian Food Security  3 Will There Be an Historical Transition to Large Asian Farms?  4 Deruralization, Occupational Multiplicity and Asian Peasant Persistence  5 Asian Debt Bondage and the World Food System  6 Will Asian Peasants Persist in the 21st Century?  7 Conclusion: Seeing Hunger through the Fisherwoman’s Lens Bibliograhie Index

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Book SynopsisAcross a powerfully wide-ranging set of themes, theoretical registers and historical examples, John Roberts analyses the key problems that continue to confront art after conceptual art, in the light of art’s longstanding relationship to market and institution the commodity and mass culture: namely, artistic labour and technology, modernity and the ‘new’, art and negation, identity and subjectivity, agency and audience, form and value. In these terms, the book provides a rigorous and ambitious, examination of the limits and possibilities of art’s contribution to emancipatory discourse and practice.Trade Review“In this collection of brilliant, exciting, and often surprising essays on value, technique, and praxis, John Roberts proves that Marxist art criticism is alive and kicking in our contemporary moment. This writing is where I go when my spirits are down. For there is something uniquely invigorating and even joyful about its clarity, originality, and conceptual precision.” — Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago “A tour-de-force organised across challenging yet essential concepts for art history, philosophy, and emancipation as a trans-generational project: 'value', 'technique', 'praxis', 'image', 'history'. Nothing less was expected from one of Europe’s most incisive art theorists thinking through Marxism. From photography to unclassifiable artmaking to the alienation of capitalist modernity, the themes and threads of John Roberts’ essays help bring into focus an era of unreasonable hope: ours.” — Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh “Through an exhilarating series of theoretical concatenations, Art and Emancipation restores the material conditions and formal categories of post-object art. In striking contrast to other accounts, however, Roberts proceeds not through the dubious rehabilitation of aesthetic experience but by grounding art in forms of labor and generalized social practices. There is no better work on art’s precarious but privileged status after the readymade.” — Devin Fore, Professor of German, Princeton University "Is another 'end of art' possible? John Roberts’ book Art and Emancipation points brilliantly towards art’s only horizon of emancipation through self-abolition. In capitalist modernity abolition, although immanent to art's technique, cannot be accomplished by art itself. The emancipation of art is, rather, inexorably entangled with the de-alienation of labour." — Angela Harutyunyan, Associate Professor of Modern Contemporary Art and Theory, American University of Beirut

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Book SynopsisNuria Sánchez Madrid is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, co-coordinator of the Research Group GINEDIS and member of the INSTIFEM UCM.Pablo López Álvarez is Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

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Book SynopsisAS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023****A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ**Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking' (Cal Newport).We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we''re interrupted by others.In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including insights such as: Why multitasking hurts rather than helps productivity How social media and modern entertainment amplify our short attention spans What drains our mental resources and Trade Review‘Solutions to the mania of modern life’ The Times ‘In focusing on practical strategies rather than silver-bullet or short-term solutions like “digital detoxes”, Attention Span is a valuable guide to how to balance work and well-being in a world increasingly dependent on tech.’ New Scientist ‘In Attention Span, Mark makes the case for a new, evidence-based approach to attention, one that works with our tech-riddled modern world and tendencies towards distraction, instead of trying to squeeze the genie back in the bottle.’ Guardian ‘Gloria Mark is the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking in our increasingly digital world. Her book is a must-read for anyone concerned about our diminishing attention span’ Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work ‘This book covers decades of Gloria Mark’s fascinating research journey into how the rise of computing has affected our personal lives: how we are overstressed, we multitask too much, we are constantly interrupted even by ourselves, and our attention spans have declined to an astonishing 47 seconds. If you are interested in your well-being and how to gain agency in this digital age then you need to read this book.’ Susan David, bestselling author of Emotional Agility ‘Gloria Mark's book is a thorough review of the impact interruptions have on our lives and mental health. Some interruptions are welcomed, deliberately self-created. Most, however, are not. All interruptions impact the focus of attention, and attention is a critically limiting aspect of human cognition. Don't be distracted by my review – go read the book. It is an important and valuable contribution to living in this world of interruptions.’ Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things

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Book SynopsisHow do you cope with the loss of centuries of working tradition? These are the stories of the people who worked through this evolution, watched their town change around them and become a city – the people who saw the end of one era and the beginning of a bright new one.

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Book SynopsisSteffan Blayney works for a trade union in London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.Joey Hornsby completed her PhD in 2021. Her work was recently published in Nottingham French Studies.Savannah Whaley is a lecturer in theory and performance at King's College London, UK.Trade ReviewIf Marx taught us that capitalist labour ‘mortifies’ the body of the worker, this book is an urgent and critical analysis of that process of mortification. The book refocuses our attention to how the body is both produced and becomes productive under capital’s strident demands upon it. But the authors urge us to consider not the passive trope of bodily resilience when it comes to the global working class, but the constant running script of bodily resistance as workers hide from, defy, or in some moments, dismantle capitalist logic. * Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University, USA *This book is a bold intervention into ways of thinking about “the productive body” from Marx to twenty-first century digital capitalism. By encouraging us to reflect on bodies and the future of resistance, it is an essential text for anyone interested in contemporary regimes of power. * Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Taking François Guéry and Didier Deleule’s The Productive Body as a starting point, the chapters collected in this wide-ranging and critical volume show how the dynamics of capitalist social form have shaped (and continue to shape) the practical and discursive treatment of bodies. As the editors and contributors insist, bodies are not transhistorical givens, the ‘real’ or ‘natural’ counterparts to capital’s abstract forms. Rather, their varied uses and meanings appear in the course of those forms’ historical elaboration. * Seb Franklin, King’s College London, UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Capitalism, Work, and the Body Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby & Savannah Whaley 2. The Productive Body Revisited François Guéry 2. The Productive Body Revisited Dan Taylor 4. Corporeal and Abstract: Is There a 'Left Biopolitics' of Bodies? Marina Vishmidt 5. Empty Promises: The Financialization of Labour Phil Jones 6. The Dialectical Body: Bringing Science Back into Socialism Graham Jones 7. Neither Appropriated nor Expropriated: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology of the Productive Body Arianna Introna 8. The Quantified Self, the Ideology of Health, and Fat Dawn Woolley 9. The Artefact of Losing: The (Bio)poetics of Miscarriage Helen Charman & Christopher Law 10. Reproductive Data-Bodies: Privacy, Inequality and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism Grace Tillyard 11. Algorithmic Capitalism, the New Machinofacture and the Productive Body Stephen Shapiro & Philip Barnard

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