This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core of resistance against capitalism today.
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.
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.
Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community.
Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community.
Una distinción fundamental entre el autoritarismo y la democracia reside en que el primero dispone sus normas e instituciones para inhibir y evitar el conflicto o reprimirlo e invisibilizarlo si lo primero no es posible.
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common.
After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy.
With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relations over the last two to three decades.
Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history.
Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies.
This volume contains both theoretical and applied on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of effort.
The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy.
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities.
Everyone talks innovation and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance.
In recent years, there has been an unprecedented shift in the attitudes of young individuals towards the key economic issues they encounter as they embark on their adult lives.
This is the first book that uses the Harris - Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular focus on China.
This is the first book that uses the Harris - Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular focus on China.
During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as secular decline.
The alternative financing space has grown exponentially in the last few decades, namely as a consequence of the financial crisis, technological advancement, niche customer segments, and more recently the pandemic.
