Search Results: Class

A fresh look on the welfare system—with a view beyond the stateWith The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon—a...

A classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship—from within the mines of BoliviaLet Me Speak! is the story of a valiant fighter for indigenous and workers’ rights...

In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated...

What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigationThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading...

"Johanna Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left."--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is...

Bukharin completed this work in 1914; it represented an attempt to grapple with the Austrian School of political economy, as represented chiefly by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Bukharin interprets the school...

The first collection of James Boggs' essays, which became seminal texts for the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activism of the 1960sJames Boggs wrestles with the problems of the specific character...

An analysis of how the working class can mobilize as a force for change in the present dayOne of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth...

For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and...

"The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964."--Mike Davis "Compulsory reading."--Daniel SingerSocialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it affects...

A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in VietnamEven if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured...

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class...

A potent glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workplace control mechanisms which prevent workers from defending themselves from exploitationFor most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and...