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  • Cover image of book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781847927279 | ISBN 10: 1847927270

    Capitalism is dead. The #1 bestselling economist shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.  ‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Everyone should read it. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH  In his boldest and ... more

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    It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism - by Bernie Sanders

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241643280 | ISBN 10: 0241643287

    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian  'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones  It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Ber ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet... by Nancy Fraser
    Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet... - by Nancy Fraser

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761232 | ISBN 10: 1839761237

    A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world.  Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and ra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
    Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion - by Tansy E. Hoskins

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745346618 | ISBN 10: 0745346618

    *Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*  Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) by Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
    Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) - by Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786633149 | ISBN 10: 1786633140

    How did we come to live in a world dominated by big tech and finance?   Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?   We cannot change an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller
    The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism - by Adrienne Buller

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526162632 | ISBN 10: 1526162636

    Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing t ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer by Lori Fox
    This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer - by Lori Fox

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551528779 | ISBN 10: 1551528770

    A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical.   Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, and Andrea Vetter
    The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism - by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, and Andrea Vetter

    £18.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839765841 | ISBN 10: 1839765844

    We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.  Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? by Brett Christophers
    Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? - by Brett Christophers

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739757 | ISBN 10: 1788739752

    How did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?   In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, provides a forensic examination of twenty-first-century capitalism. Bret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by Ben Tarnoff
    Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future - by Ben Tarnoff

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839762024 | ISBN 10: 1839762020

    Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?   In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Goo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
    Automation and the Future of Work - by Aaron Benanav

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761324 | ISBN 10: 1839761326

    A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market.  In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
    Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - by James Davies

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786499875 | ISBN 10: 1786499878

    A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and Dope Sick.  In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Phil Jones
    Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - by Phil Jones

    £10.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839760433 | ISBN 10: 1839760435

    The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.   We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
    Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745340913 | ISBN 10: 0745340911

    'Work hard, get paid.'   It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.   For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
    The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World - by Kehinde Andrews

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241437445 | ISBN 10: 024143744x

    The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why - by Danny Caine

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781621067061 | ISBN 10: 1621067068

    Join the fight for economic justice.  When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - by Cory Doctorow

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781736205907 | ISBN 10: 1736205900

    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism was first published online in August, where it was an instant hit with readers, scholars, and critics alike.   For years now, we've been hearing about the ills of surveillance capitalism - the business o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
    Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance - by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241482612 | ISBN 10: 0241482615

    An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'.   Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Against Amazon and Other Essays by Jorge Carrion
    Against Amazon and Other Essays - by Jorge Carrion

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781771963039 | ISBN 10: 1771963034

    A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.   Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey
    The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - by David Harvey

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745342092 | ISBN 10: 0745342094

    Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey.   Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberali ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese
    The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy - by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

    £19.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745341484 | ISBN 10: 0745341489

    Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State by Bob Wylie
    Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State - by Bob Wylie

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780275963 | ISBN 10: 178027596x

    The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only GBP29 million in the bank and debts and other liabi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
    A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788737746 | ISBN 10: 1788737741

    Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us by David Whyte
    Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us - by David Whyte

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526146984 | ISBN 10: 1526146983

    We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable.   Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
    Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto - by Aaron Bastani

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632

    A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.  In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu
    Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism - by Wendy Liu

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912248704 | ISBN 10: 1912248700

    Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good.   Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. Wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
    Capital and Ideology - by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

    £31.95   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780674980822 | ISBN 10: 0674980824

    The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.  Thomas Piketty’s bestselli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin by Silvia Frederici
    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin - by Silvia Frederici

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637068 | ISBN 10: 1629637068

    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements — all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a v ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine

    £3.50      (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781621065265 | ISBN 10: 162106526x

    When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power - by Shoshana Zuboff

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781781256855 | ISBN 10: 1781256853

    The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us.  The heady optimism ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity by Slavoj Žižek
    Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity - by Slavoj Žižek

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141989198 | ISBN 10: 014198919x

    In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice crumbles? Slavoj Žižek shows how the answer is already stealing into sight, like a thief in broad daylight. What we mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
    Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation - by Grace Blakeley

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912248377 | ISBN 10: 1912248379

    For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.   In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
    How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century - by Erik Olin Wright

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788736053 | ISBN 10: 1788736052

    What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?  Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values — equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, commun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
    Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance - by Raquel Rolnik

    £19.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788731607 | ISBN 10: 1788731603

    How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis.   The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperat ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)
    After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response - by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339580 | ISBN 10: 0745339581

    On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by gov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee
    Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence - by Kristen Ghodsee

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529110579 | ISBN 10: 1529110572

    The argument of this book can be summed up succinctly: unregulated capitalism is bad for women, and if we adopt some ideas from socialism, women will have better lives.  If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labour co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705756 | ISBN 10: 1784705756

    Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world.  Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Battle For Paradise Puerto Rico: Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein
    The Battle For Paradise Puerto Rico: Takes on the Disaster Capitalists - by Naomi Klein

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608463572 | ISBN 10: 1608463575

    "We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations - by Radha D'Souza

    £19.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745335414 | ISBN 10: 0745335411

    Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the le ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
    The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - by George Monbiot

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786632890 | ISBN 10: 1786632896

    Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? by Peter Dauvergne
    Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? - by Peter Dauvergne

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509524013 | ISBN 10: 1509524010

    Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy - by Jonathan Taplin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509847709 | ISBN 10: 1509847707

    LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD   Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Much Stuff: Capitalism in Crisis by Kozo Yamamura
    Too Much Stuff: Capitalism in Crisis - by Kozo Yamamura

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447335696 | ISBN 10: 1447335694

    Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and increased money supply, produce only wider income disparity and inequality?   We now live in a n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rupturing The Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization by Harry Cleaver
    Rupturing The Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization - by Harry Cleaver

    £16.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352703 | ISBN 10: 1849352704

    Rupturing the Dialectic interprets capitalism's most recent crises and demonstrates how ordinary men and women can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them.  While Cleaver's work has been central to autonomist Mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
    How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System - by Wolfgang Streeck

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786632982 | ISBN 10: 1786632985

    The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper.  After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today by Jay Naidoo
    Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today - by Jay Naidoo

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781776091805 | ISBN 10: 1776091809

    Unless there is significant change, the world is heading for an explosion. The growing gap between rich and poor is dangerous and unsustainable. The plundering of resources is damaging our planet. Something has to be done.   In this book, Jay ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and its Critics by Anselm Jappe
    The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and its Critics - by Anselm Jappe

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785355813 | ISBN 10: 1785355813

    The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately brin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thomas Piketty
    Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction - by Stephan Kaufmann and Ingo Stützle, translated by Alexander Locascio

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784786144 | ISBN 10: 1784786144

    An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work.   US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major intern ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
    And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784704117 | ISBN 10: 1784704113

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER � The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe�s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, �the emerging rock st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein
    Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe - by Antony Loewenstein

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784781187 | ISBN 10: 1784781185

    How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe.   Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav­els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
    Platform Capitalism - by Nick Srnicek

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509504879 | ISBN 10: 1509504877

    What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
    One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization - by Peter Singer

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780300196054 | ISBN 10: 0300196059

    One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World.  Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
    Four Futures: Life After Capitalism - by Peter Frase

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781688137 | ISBN 10: 1781688133

    An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society.  Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
    The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being - by William Davies

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780951 | ISBN 10: 1784780952

    Why are we so interested in measuring happiness?   What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world’s leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a ‘chief happiness officer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women
    Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression - by Christine Delphy

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782504 | ISBN 10: 1784782505

    Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism.   Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative ... more

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  • Cover image of book Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost Us Millions. by Margaret Hodge
    Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost Us Millions. - by Margaret Hodge

    £18.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408708071 | ISBN 10: 1408708078

    A jaw-dropping - and intimate - account by the woman who spent five years as the nation's watchdog of how much of the money needed for public services is misspent, while too many corporate giants get away without paying their fair share.  As ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
    Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work - by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786229 | ISBN 10: 1784786225

    A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work.  Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
    The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay - by Guy Standing

    £17.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900440 | ISBN 10: 1785900447

    There is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but have constructed the most unfree market system ever. It is corrupt because income is channelled to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier
    The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money - by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786070470 | ISBN 10: 1786070472

    Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
    Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future - by Paul Mason

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141975290 | ISBN 10: 0141975296

    From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - eco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations by Brandon L. Garrett
    Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations - by Brandon L. Garrett

    £16.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780674659919 | ISBN 10: 0674659910

    American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
    The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - by John Perkins

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033841 | ISBN 10: 1785033840

    False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
    The Country and the City - by Raymond Williams

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784870829 | ISBN 10: 178487082x

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRISTRAM HUNT   Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies That Run Britain by Alan White
    Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies That Run Britain - by Alan White

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780745749 | ISBN 10: 1780745745

    Every year the British government spends 80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive and important roles of the state - running prisons and providing healthcare, transpor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey
    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism - by David Harvey

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781251614 | ISBN 10: 1781251614

    Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will lead inexorably to the demise of our system. You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
    Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782061 | ISBN 10: 1784782068

    How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
    Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism - by Sven Beckert

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141979984 | ISBN 10: 0141979984

    Winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize Finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature  For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Understanding Class by Erik Olin Wright
    Understanding Class - by Erik Olin Wright

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689455 | ISBN 10: 1781689458

    A leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism.   Few ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
    Capitalism: A Ghost Story - by Arundhati Roy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780944 | ISBN 10: 1784780944

    An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracya nation of 1.2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buddha on Wall Street: What
    The Buddha on Wall Street: What's Wrong with Capitalism and What to Do About it - by Vaddhaka Linn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909314443 | ISBN 10: 1909314447

    After his Enlightenment the Buddha set out to help liberate the individual, and create a society free from suffering. The economic resources now exist to offer a realistic possibility of providing everyone with decent food, shelter, work and leisure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Drop: The Politics of Water by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes
    The Last Drop: The Politics of Water - by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334912 | ISBN 10: 0745334911

    Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are tes ... more

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  • Cover image of book NoNonsense Globalization: Buying and Selling the World by Wayne Ellwood
    NoNonsense Globalization: Buying and Selling the World - by Wayne Ellwood

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262376 | ISBN 10: 178026237x

    Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples. But it has also been a powerful driver of inequality, over-consumption and corporate control. This fully updated edition unpacks the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power by Susan George
    Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power - by Susan George

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745697826 | ISBN 10: 0745697828

    Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished by Steve Tombs & David Whyte
    The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished - by Steve Tombs & David Whyte

    £25.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780415556378 | ISBN 10: 0415556376

    Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore
    Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital - by Jason W. Moore

    £19.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689028 | ISBN 10: 1781689024

    The relationship between capital and ecology in the longue dure. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of todays global ... more

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  • Cover image of book Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future by Derek Wall
    Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future - by Derek Wall

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335070 | ISBN 10: 0745335071

    There is no alternative has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley
    Drug War Capitalism - by Dawn Paley

    £13.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849351935 | ISBN 10: 1849351937

    The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control. In Drug War Capitalism, Dawn Paley lays bare the mechanisms through which state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies by Michael Parenti
    Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies - by Michael Parenti

    £15.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781612056623 | ISBN 10: 1612056628

    From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care, from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global environment these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary economic life that Profit Pathology takes on. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself by Peter Fleming
    The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself - by Peter Fleming

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334868 | ISBN 10: 0745334865

    There was once a time when work was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of l ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
    The New Prophets of Capital - by Nicole Aschoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688106 | ISBN 10: 1781688109

    A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah.   As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has becom ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
    This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241956182 | ISBN 10: 0241956188

    Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain
    Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists - by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262574 | ISBN 10: 1780262574

    Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusio ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell
    A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain - by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099578314 | ISBN 10: 009957831x

    Q. Whats worth 2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britains influence industry   The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory its happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism by Colin Cremin
    Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism - by Colin Cremin

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334370 | ISBN 10: 0745334377

    In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our societal relations, weaving deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how it is a system that totalises and which has upend ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj iek
    Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj iek

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241004968 | ISBN 10: 0241004969

    In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.   There is obviously trouble in the global capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism and Its Alternatives by Chris Rogers
    Capitalism and Its Alternatives - by Chris Rogers

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780327365 | ISBN 10: 1780327366

    The global economic crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organizing production, distribution and exchange. Political elites have argued that capitalism is not fundamentally pernicious or crisis-prone and can be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Intelligent Woman
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism - by George Bernard Shaw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847493330 | ISBN 10: 1847493335

    As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were "c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity by Deric Shannon (Editor)
    The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity - by Deric Shannon (Editor)

    £18.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849351867 | ISBN 10: 1849351864

    The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book SOS Alternatives to Capitalism by Richard Swift
    SOS Alternatives to Capitalism - by Richard Swift

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780261706 | ISBN 10: 1780261705

    Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an alternative but are co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism by Michael Albert
    Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism - by Michael Albert

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780325620 | ISBN 10: 1780325622

    Something is profoundly wrong with capitalist globalization, as neo-liberal policies continue to vastly increase the disparity between rich and poor. 'What is the alternative?' is a question challenging activists around the world.  Michael Alber ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy by John Bellamy Foster
    The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy - by John Bellamy Foster

    £17.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781583674413 | ISBN 10: 1583674411

    In 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital, a monumental work of economic theory and social criticism that sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of their time. Their theory, and its continuing elaboration by Sweezy, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Culture and Resistance in a Post-Crash World by Max Haiven
    Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Culture and Resistance in a Post-Crash World - by Max Haiven

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329529 | ISBN 10: 1780329520

    Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Capitalism Failed the Arab World by Richard Javad Heydarian
    How Capitalism Failed the Arab World - by Richard Javad Heydarian

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329574 | ISBN 10: 1780329571

    Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of yo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism by Ole Bjerg
    Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism - by Ole Bjerg

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781682654 | ISBN 10: 1781682658

    What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes it? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? "Explosive ... an absolutely indispensable guide through the labyrinth of economics."(Slavoj iek) I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
    Utopia or Bust - by Benjamin Kunkel

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683279 | ISBN 10: 1781683271

    "For anyone who cares about historical necessity, the crisis of capitalism, and our fate."(Rachel Kushner) After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Copyright Masquerade: How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms by Monica Horten
    A Copyright Masquerade: How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms - by Monica Horten

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780326405 | ISBN 10: 1780326408

    When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism
    Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity - by Walden Bello

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780320458 | ISBN 10: 1780320450

    In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All by Costas Lapavitsas
    Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All - by Costas Lapavitsas

    £20.00   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681411 | ISBN 10: 1781681414

    Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing defines financialization in terms of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism by Kieran Allen and Brian O
    Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism - by Kieran Allen and Brian O' Boyle

    £18.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745334011 | ISBN 10: 0745334016

    Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the countrys ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.   In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
    The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire - by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681367 | ISBN 10: 1781681368

    A groundbreaking account of America's role in global capitalism.   The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anticapitalism: A Beginner
    Anticapitalism: A Beginner's Guide - by Simon Tormey

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780742502 | ISBN 10: 1780742509

    The financial crisis, bank bailouts, and the dash to austerity have breathed new life into protest movements across the globe, and brought anti-capitalist ideas to the mainstream. But what does it mean to be anti-capitalist? And where is anti-capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Peace with the Earth by Vandana Shiva
    Making Peace with the Earth - by Vandana Shiva

    £17.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745333762 | ISBN 10: 0745333761

    In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact.   Shiva argues that consumeris ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska
    From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland - by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska

    £15.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781583672969 | ISBN 10: 1583672966

    In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to really-existing socialism that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themse ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vultures
    Vultures' Picnic - by Greg Palast

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780336510 | ISBN 10: 1780336519

    Vulture's Picnic is Greg Palast's hard hitting expose of the oil industry, the banking industry, and the government agencies that aren't regulating either.  The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book: From the WTO to the G20 by Gord Hill
    The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book: From the WTO to the G20 - by Gord Hill

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781551524443 | ISBN 10: 1551524449

    In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world's political and economic leaders. While police and the media are quick to paint partic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accidental Capitalist: A People
    The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China - by Behzad Yaghmaian

    £22.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332307 | ISBN 10: 0745332307

    In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.  Through months of sustained interpersonal conta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Structural Genocide by Garry Leech
    Capitalism: A Structural Genocide - by Garry Leech

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780321998 | ISBN 10: 1780321996

    In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Obama
    Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few - by Jack Rasmus

    £21.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332185 | ISBN 10: 0745332188

    Three years after his election, Barack Obama presides over a deep economic malaise. Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration has failed to deliver economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals whi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
    Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain - by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961049 | ISBN 10: 0241961041

    'Dial M for Murdoch uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence of Financial Capitalism by Christian Marazzi, translated by Kristina Lebedeva
    The Violence of Financial Capitalism - by Christian Marazzi, translated by Kristina Lebedeva

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781584351023 | ISBN 10: 1584351020

    This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzis most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to a new audience of readers. Marazzi, a leading figure in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman
    Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies - by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman

    £24.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331652 | ISBN 10: 0745331653

    The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
    Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay - by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi

    £15.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781552663844 | ISBN 10: 1552663841

    In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and planned wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book 23 Things They Don
    23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - by Ha-Joon Chang

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141047973 | ISBN 10: 0141047976

    In 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in.  There's no such thing as a 'free' market   Globalization isn't making the worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anti-Capitalism by Ezequiel Adamovsky, illustrated by United Illustrators
    Anti-Capitalism - by Ezequiel Adamovsky, illustrated by United Illustrators

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609800871 | ISBN 10: 1609800877

    Any young person who enters the world of progressive politics has had this experience. You meet an arch-conservative and you decide to convince him to join your side. You argue passionately against the powers that be, bringing up labor abuses, unnece ... more

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  • Cover image of book Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton
    Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society - by Will Hutton

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349121482 | ISBN 10: 0349121486

    The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. Thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism by Kieran Allen
    Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism - by Kieran Allen

    £19.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330020 | ISBN 10: 0745330029

    If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult by Sasha Lilley (Editor)
    Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult - by Sasha Lilley (Editor)

    £14.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780850366778 | ISBN 10: 0850366771

    Capitalism is stumbling, the empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing.  Many people want to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. This book gets to the heart of the matter: the nature of capi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ecological Rift: Capitalism
    The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth - by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York

    £14.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781583672181 | ISBN 10: 1583672184

    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
    The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism - by David Harvey

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846683091 | ISBN 10: 1846683092

    Radical sociologist David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world, why it resulted in the current financial crisis - and why it's time for a change.  For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
    Living in the End Times - by Slavoj Zizek

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677023 | ISBN 10: 1844677028

    Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the four riders of the apocalypse. There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming ... more

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  • Cover image of book The World: A Beginner
    The World: A Beginner's Guide - by Gran Therborn

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745643441 | ISBN 10: 0745643442

    What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Inc. - How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff
    Life Inc. - How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back - by Douglas Rushkoff

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099516699 | ISBN 10: 0099516691

    A timely, provocative and urgent look at how our world has become slowly but surely corporatised.  Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the respons ... more

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  • Cover image of book Global History: A View from the South by Samir Amin
    Global History: A View from the South - by Samir Amin

    £14.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906387969 | ISBN 10: 1906387966

    Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, this book looks at the ancient world system and how i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism? by Samir Amin
    Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism? - by Samir Amin

    £16.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906387808 | ISBN 10: 190638780x

    With his usual verve and sharpness Samir Amin examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation. He traces the origins of the crisis t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Social Work in a Globalizing World by Lena Dominelli
    Social Work in a Globalizing World - by Lena Dominelli

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745640891 | ISBN 10: 0745640893

    This inspiring and stimulating book confronts contemporary challenges facing social workers. Many of the forms of human, social and environmental degradation addressed arise from social problems that have persisted over time, such as social works ow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World by Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
    Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World - by Kolya Abramsky (Editor)

    £18.00   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849350051 | ISBN 10: 1849350051

    As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector - and for what purposes - is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book ZERO by Chris O
    ZERO - by Chris O'Connell

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781840028812 | ISBN 10: 1840028815

    'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?' Chaotic, fast, and furious, ZERO is the new play fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts by Barnbrook Design
    The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts - by Barnbrook Design

    £8.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906863067 | ISBN 10: 1906863067

    Combining startling graphic imagery with truly shocking facts gathered from the worlds most authoritative sources, The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts is a powerful visual manifesto by the worlds most respected graphic designer, Jonathan Barnb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women
    Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World - by Hester Eisenstein

    £31.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781594516603 | ISBN 10: 159451660x

    In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the worlds ruling elites utilize womens labor and the ideas of womens liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home ... more

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  • Cover image of book Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
    Envisioning Real Utopias - by Erik Olin Wright

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676170 | ISBN 10: 184467617x

    Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century by Tom Bower
    The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century - by Tom Bower

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007276554 | ISBN 10: 0007276559

    The Squeeze is an invaluable account of the modern oil industry and vital to understanding the awful truth about the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. With unprecedented access to their engineers and executives in London and Houston, Tom Bower ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crack Capitalism by John Holloway
    Crack Capitalism - by John Holloway

    £24.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745330082 | ISBN 10: 0745330088

    Crack Capitalism argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of 'cracks' in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction by Franois Houtart
    Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction - by Franois Houtart

    £27.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745330129 | ISBN 10: 0745330126

    Since they were heralded as a key weapon in the fight against climate change, agrofuels have been criticised heavily for doing more harm than good due to deforestation and stealing agricultural land essential to farmers in the developing world. This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World by Alex Callinicos
    Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World - by Alex Callinicos

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745648767 | ISBN 10: 0745648762

    Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to ... more

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  • Cover image of book False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
    False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism - by John Gray

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847081322 | ISBN 10: 1847081320

    In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation.   Written over ten years ago, False Dawn is a remarkably prescient book, sharply criticising the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Money and Soul: The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Captialism by Per Espen Stoknes
    Money and Soul: The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Captialism - by Per Espen Stoknes

    £12.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781900322461 | ISBN 10: 1900322463

    Many people feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche (or soul) are bitter enemies do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? This book traces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the feelings that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil and Piero
    Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide - by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil and Piero

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848310551 | ISBN 10: 1848310552

    Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships.   Tracing capitalism from its beginning to the pres ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives by David Craig and Matthew Elliott
    The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives - by David Craig and Matthew Elliott

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847945709 | ISBN 10: 1847945708

    As the June 2009 EU Elections approach, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name.  The EU costs us over GBP700 billion a year - an incredible GBP1500 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola by Mark Thomas
    Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola - by Mark Thomas

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091927042 | ISBN 10: 0091927048

    Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, and even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. F ... more

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  • Cover image of book Real England: The Battle Against the Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
    Real England: The Battle Against the Bland - by Paul Kingsnorth

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846270420 | ISBN 10: 1846270421

    We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the decline of small farms and the loss of our rural post-offices; the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising by Starhawk
    Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising - by Starhawk

    £10.75   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781897408131 | ISBN 10: 1897408137

    A dramatic account from the front lines of the global justice movement, Starhawk combines practicality with poetry and inspiration, outlining a vision of an alternative future while discussing the strategies to reach it. A bold and eloquent book. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The State of the World Atlas: The Bestselling Survey of Current Events and Global Trends by Dan Smith
    The State of the World Atlas: The Bestselling Survey of Current Events and Global Trends - by Dan Smith

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844075737 | ISBN 10: 1844075737

    Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.  * The world's car population has grown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy by Toby Shelley
    Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy - by Toby Shelley

    £20.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781842778524 | ISBN 10: 1842778528

    From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are used for forced labour. Low wages are u ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Runs Britain? by Robert Peston
    Who Runs Britain? - by Robert Peston

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780340839447 | ISBN 10: 0340839449

    On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England. It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine by Stan Cox
    Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine - by Stan Cox

    £19.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327402 | ISBN 10: 0745327400

    Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State by Colin Leys
    Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State - by Colin Leys

    £11.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780850365900 | ISBN 10: 0850365902

    The dream of contemporary capitalism is that everything should become a terrain of profitable enterprise, including most of what has been seen hitherto as the business of government.   Like total war, total capitalism demands the subordinatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
    Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - by Naomi Klein

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141024530 | ISBN 10: 0141024534

    In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of No Logo exposes the gripping story of how America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world - through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chao ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin Barber
    Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole - by Benjamin Barber

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780393330892 | ISBN 10: 0393330893

    A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society. A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great City Academy Fraud by Francis Beckett
    The Great City Academy Fraud - by Francis Beckett

    £30.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780826495136 | ISBN 10: 0826495133

    This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why It Matters by Andrew Simms
    Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why It Matters - by Andrew Simms

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845295110 | ISBN 10: 1845295110

    You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, direc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism by David Lester
    The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism - by David Lester

    £5.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781894037303 | ISBN 10: 1894037308

    The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism is a Harper's Index of the havoc to humanity and the environment caused by global economic inequality.  Percentage of the world's population who live without electricity: 40  Amount spent annually subsi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman
    The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower - by Charles Fishman

    £11.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141019796 | ISBN 10: 0141019794

    Wal-Mart is the biggest company on earth, ever. Around 7.2 billion people shop there in a year more than one visit for every person on the planet. Its expanding across the globe from Brazil to Eastern Europe. And it has the power to change our wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody
    The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money - by Dan Briody

    £20.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780471745945 | ISBN 10: 0471745944

    The author of the bestseller The Iron Triangle untangles a web of political back scratching in one of the world's most powerful companies Halliburton-a Texas oil-field company Dick Cheney ran before he became Vice President-has courted controversy f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ripped and Torn: Levi
    Ripped and Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Bue Jean Dream - by Amaranta Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091900847 | ISBN 10: 0091900840

    When Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America - her brief to befriend local teenagers and report back on their lives - she saw it as a means to explore a continent she loved. But as time passed and she witnessed first-hand ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations by David E. Lowes
    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations - by David E. Lowes

    £24.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842776834 | ISBN 10: 1842776835

    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher D. Cook
    Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us - by Christopher D. Cook

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580849 | ISBN 10: 1595580840

    If we are what we eat, then we are not in good shape - as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful investigation of the food industry. Diet for a Dead Planet takes us beyond fast food and GMOs to show how our entire food system is in crisis. Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen
    Conspicuous Consumption - by Thorstein Veblen

    £4.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023984 | ISBN 10: 0141023988

    With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent today as when it was written over a century ago. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
    The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power - by Joel Bakan

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781845291747 | ISBN 10: 1845291743

    Now revised & expanded!   What would the world be like if its rulers were insane? The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and unavoidably demented. The corporation lies, steals ... more

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  • Cover image of book Field Guide to the Global Economy by Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh
    Field Guide to the Global Economy - by Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh

    £15.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849563 | ISBN 10: 1565849566

    This fully-updated and expanded second edition of Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy. Illustrated throughout with charts, graphs, and cartoons, the book docume ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh
    Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power - by Alastair McIntosh

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781854109422 | ISBN 10: 1854109421

    In this rousing book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possibe for ordinary people to take on powerful individuals or mighty corporations and emerge victorious. As a founder of the residents of the Isle of Eigg T ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
    The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141011455 | ISBN 10: 0141011459

    Until 2001, Enron could do no wrong. Feared by rivals and worshipped by investors, its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer named Bethany McLean wrote an article entitled 'Is Enron overpriced?' - and the company fell apart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning by Donald G. Reid
    Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning - by Donald G. Reid

    £27.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780745319988 | ISBN 10: 074531998x

    Tourism is booming worldwide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
    Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World - by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

    £25.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781844070244 | ISBN 10: 1844070247

    The world's most fundamental and indispensable resource - fresh water - is becoming scarcer, fast. It is now big business and a preserve of the wealthy."In this book, we tell the story of the world's growing fresh water crisis, the corporate assault ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trust Us, We
    Trust Us, We'Re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future - by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber

    £12.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781585421398 | ISBN 10: 1585421391

    The book that unmasks the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data and manufactured facts. "A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology by Kristin Dawkins
    Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology - by Kristin Dawkins

    £4.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781583224205 | ISBN 10: 1583224203

    Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this fully updated second edition of Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechno ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ashwin Desai
    We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa - by Ashwin Desai

    £15.95   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781583670507 | ISBN 10: 1583670505

    When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
    Capitalism and Slavery - by Eric Williams

    £27.50   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780807844885 | ISBN 10: 0807844888

    Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capital ... more

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