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Book SynopsisHow can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? Connecting with and going beyond classical socialist themes, each essay in this volume combines analysis of how we are living now with plans and visions for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented directions for alternative ways of living.
Table of ContentsGreg Albo: Postcapitalism: Alternatives or detours? Nancy Fraser: Social reproduction in the 21st century; Ursula Huws: The household in and beyond capitalism; Nancy Holmstrom: Not for Sale, Public Spaces and Public Ownership; Barbara Harris White: Human Ecology, contradictions of restoration, possibilities of restitution; Jeremy Brecher: Insurgency, solidarity, survival, Climate and the Left; Arun Gupta: Accounting for taste, after American global cuisine; Karl Beitel: The urban space: Housing and anti-capitalist resistance; Roger Keil: Communism in the suburbs; Geronimo Montero Bressan: Beyond neoliberal fashion, transforming how we clothe ourselves; Owen Hatherley: The bleakness of everyday life vs. landscapes of communism; Alyssa Battistoni: Living, not just surviving; Michelle Chen: Living in and after the Rust Belt; Yu Chunsen: The making of China's new dangerous class; Katharyne Mitchell & Key McFarlane: Education for democracy - remaking workers; Amy Bartholomew & Hilary Wainwright: Refugees and democracy - the challenge from City Plaza; Sylvia Walby: Towards zero violence; Mao Mollona: Utopian visions: Art after capitalism.
