"The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964." "--Mike Davis"
"Compulsory reading." "--Daniel Singer"
Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it affects workers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Theoretical contributions explore today's old and new working classes, workers "north" and "south," peasants and workers, gender and the working class, as well as migrant and knowledge workers. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe...
"The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964." "--Mike Davis"
"The intellectual lodestar for the international Left since 1964." -Mike Davis.
For almost forty years the "Socialist Register" has brought together the leading socialist writers from around the world to consider themes of vital importance. As new global conflicts are being shaped around questions of race, religion, and nationality, the forthcoming "Register" focuses on this theme.
Contributors include: Aijaz Ahmad, "Fundamentalisms: Religious, National and Imperial," John S. Saul, "The Marxism of Race, Nationalism and Religion" Manning Marable, "The Black Reparations...
"The intellectual lodestar for the international Left since 1964." -Mike Davis.
For almost forty years the "Socialist Register" has brought t...
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole.
Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from...
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world...
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole.
Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from...
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world...
Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 examines how contemporary social and political debate is structured, how ideas and ideologies come to inform policy making, research, education, and our conceptions of truth more generally.
It also discusses the role of the state in intellectual life and the media, and the role of think-tanks, foundations, political parties and global institutions such as the World Bank in the dissemination of knowledge...
Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Telling the...
This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in believing that the only alternative to traditional social democracy was an acceptance of neo-liberalism. The impasse reached in constitutional reform, the retreat from the promise of open government, and the erosion of Labour's support amongst the electorate, flow directly from this fateful choice. In this new edition, the authors, in collaboration with Daivd Coates, review the debate in light of the Blair government's first three years in...
This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken...
This text is a multi-level study which moves between an analysis of those global forces, through national politics, to the changes occuring in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone - television and health care.
This text is a multi-level study which moves between an analysis of those global forces, through national politics, to the changes occuring in two fie...
