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How does our economic system impact the way we live Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

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Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well This book offers an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living.

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Explores the phenomenon of the 'great resignation' and the change in work culture underpinning the new refusal of work.

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New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

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World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface

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Aims to tackle the most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life' This book presents an account of finding and following people who have uprooted their lives and fought with these questions in radical ways. It features the stories of individual dilemma and drama.

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Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

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The most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the effect of conflict on young people in the Middle East and North Africa today.

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Takes a close look at the working lives and attitudes of domestic workers in modern Australia. The book examines a great diversity of experiences in the domestic services industry, mainly through interviews with many participants, both employers and employed.

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Presents a collection of candid and intimate conversations with 42 men and women who describe in detail how physical risk is a familiar companion in their working lives, and how they deal with it. This title reveals who these daring people are, what they will endure for a paycheck, and how they feel about their jobs.

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How is it that labour has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society The book provides a systematic analysis of the role of labour in the processes of capitalist production and the establishment of capitalist legal and social institutions.

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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.