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The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological ......
Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award, this volume examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South, focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains and offering a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx's own theory of exploitation.tion.
Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty in the New American West
The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keepwomen literally and figuratively imprisoned.
Containing essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy, this volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to fundamental philosophical questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law.
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors ......
