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1) Hijacked: how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people. What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Rarely in the history of American democracy has there been such uncertainty about its viability. The same applies to American capitalism. It too is under scrutiny as it has not been since at least the Great Depression, almost a hundred years ago. There is of course a connection between the two. Failures of capitalism create uncertainties in democracies. And deficiencies in democracies raise concerns over capitalism. In the United States democracy...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk, to the Danish students who helped...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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 respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China ended two decades of Cold War isolation, China’s trade relations veered in a very different direction. Elizabeth Ingleson shows how the interests of US business and the Chinese state aligned to reframe the China market: the old dream of plentiful customers gave way to a new vision of low-cost workers...
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