1,250円 Deep Sea Decisions introduces the Evergreen Group, the owners of the largest container ships ever built, and details their recent high-value losses jumping off every headline. Why? Who is really to blame for these incidents? And why are the officers and crew the first ones, often the only ones, b...

4,230円 Big Bobーsix-feet-four Robert McEllrath's waterfront handleーwas heralded for his powerful speaking style, charisma, unifying vision, and negotiating prowess. President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for twelve eventful years, McEllrath retired in 2018 after nearly fort...

9,616円 Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers’ experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work ag...

16,613円 This book explores the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author argues that in order to effectively understand a social movement, it is necessary to take an approach that ...

1,320円 You may think you know Texas, but which one? Texas is a land shrouded in myths, and so is its politics. The Real World of Texas Politics pulls back the veil on those myths and reveals the secrets the elites don’t want you to know. It lays bare the dual worlds of the Lone Star State: the one for t...

602円 “Si salvi chi può” è il grido del nostro tempo, e si ode soprattutto in alcuni mestieri che designavano uno status privilegiato nel mondo del lavoro, tra cui i tipografi e i librai. Barnes & Nobles, la più grande catena di librerie del mondo, ha annunciato che da qui al 2020 chiuderà 20 librerie ...

903円 Uscito nel 1968 e oggi introvabile, "La classe operaia italiana" di Giorgio Amendola, è, come scrive Giulio Sapelli, un punto di riferimento per chiunque voglia capire la storia del nostro paese e del movimento operaio. La tesi di Amendola partiva da una semplice constatazione: la maggioranza deg...

3,317円 Canada’s largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and international conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. The Strike’s centenary occasioned a re-examination of this critical moment in working-class hi...

1,500円 Si es evidente que el trabajo ya no es lo que fue, ¿cómo lo pensamos en pleno siglo XXI? ¿Podemos hacerlo sin caer en los lugares comunes de la tecnociencia, el teletrabajo o la inteligencia artificial? Este breve y poderoso libro demuestra que, para quebrar esas lógicas mercantilistas, es fundam...

15,703円 The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd beliefs swirling around th...

10,346円 Bajo el gobierno del MAS el movimiento indígena boliviano logró emanciparse políticamente, penetrando las estructuras del poder estatal, pero al mismo tiempo pasó por su crisis, desmovilizándose paulatinamente. El objetivo del libro es explorar la relación entre la institucionalización del movimi...

10,346円 This volume presents the outcomes of qualitative research on the meaning of religion in selected CEE regions. In several case studies, we reveal some features of social perception of religion present in verbalized and institutionalized social experiences and practices. We argue these societies de...