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Leading scholars of media and communication studies examine what Marx and his political economy have to offer their disciplines.

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This pathbreaking book offers a radical analysis of how people play, produce, and profit from video games, and the major role the industry plays in contemporary capitalism.

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This pathbreaking book offers a radical analysis of how people play, produce, and profit from video games, and the major role the industry plays in contemporary capitalism.

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Leading scholars of digital media and internet studies examine what Marx and his political economy have to offer their disciplines.

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Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare".

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Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured--organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order to remain healthy, even in times of crises.ises.

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The contributors to Taking Up Space focus on representations of womens labour in cultural production (literature, cinema and television, journalism, bande dessine). The chapters draw on a wide range of work experiences, from salaried work in academic, artistic, corporate and working-class worlds to unpaid (reproductive, domestic) labour, illegal activities and activism.

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A thoughtful analysis of the developing interplay between post-socialist European communities and Western neoliberal actors.

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Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and types of people come from Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, this book develops a theory about the emergence of organizational, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks.

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Sotelo offers an insightful analysis of the paradigmatic transformation of labor relations under neoliberalism.

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This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

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An insightful analysis of gender relations role in the Japanese economys transition from unstoppable growth to inescapable stagnation.

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Analysis on the insidious way in which employers cheat their workers with a blueprint for changing US policy.

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Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk and suggests some positive directions in social policy designed to anticipate and help people address risk. This book does not identify 'risk' as a negative; instead it argues that converting risk into opportunity requires a co-ordinated policy response.

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From nurses and teachers to rideshare drivers and funeral directorsan intimate, honest, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what its like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time.

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Explores the impact of technological change on women's work and on women's wages, and analyzes the connections between gender relations and the new technologies.

This work is the first encyclopedia on the labor practices that constitute modern-day slavery-and the individuals and organizations working today to eradicate them.

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With the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955, the American labor movement entered a new era.

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Drawing from the stories of survival within the cities of the Global South like Accra, Ghana, this book sheds light on the extraordinary resolve of street and working children and redefines the street as a resource on which they build their lives.