218 books (11 pages) in this category
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck
<p><strong>The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.</strong></p> <p>Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, <em>“We Are All Fast-Food ...
ISBN: 9780807081785
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eBookA Century of Wealth in America
by Edward N. Wolff
<p>Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward Wolff’s account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of U.S. wealth since 1900 ...
ISBN: 9780674981379
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eBookby James Connolly & Mike Davis
<p>James Connolly served in the British Army for seven years but would go on to lead the 1916 Irish Rising against British rule in Dublin. Following service he joined the socialist movement in Scotland. He founded the Irish Socialist Republican ...
ISBN: 9781608466665
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eBookAmerican Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
by Lawrence B. Glickman
<p>The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening
ISBN: 9781501702211
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eBookby Wayne Au
<p>This book will appeal to the growing movement for educational justice in the Trump era; Build connections to anti-standardized testing groups; Rethinking Schools has built a profile among activist educators; Wayne Au has an established ...
ISBN: 9781608469062
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eBookA People's History of Civilization
by John Zerzan
<p>The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what free society should ...
ISBN: 9781627310710
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eBookAbsolute Value and the Concept of Human Rights
by Dong Zhiyong
The fourth milestone in the history of the development of economic thoughts, following An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo, and Capital ...
ISBN: 9781456628895
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eBookThe Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People
by Kim Hill & A.Magdalena Hurtado
<p>The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses ...
ISBN: 9781351329224
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eBookAdivasis, Migrants and the State in India
by Jagannath Ambagudia
<p>This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the nature and dynamics of competition and resource conflicts between the Adivasis and the migrants. ...
ISBN: 9780429649301
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eBookThe Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
by Katherine S. Newman & Ariane De Lannoy
<p><strong>Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.</strong><br /> <br /> The death of Nelson Mandela in ...
ISBN: 9780807007471
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eBookEconomic Democracy for the 21st Century
by Tom Malleson
<p>These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the ...
ISBN: 9780199330126
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eBookWhy Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
by Timothy P Carney
<p><strong>Now a Washington Post bestseller.</strong></p> <p>Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with <em>Hillbilly Elegy</em> and the classic <em>Bowling Alone</em> in this ...
ISBN: 9780062797148
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eBookNew and Selected Poems
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
<p>Dougherty was awarded a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans from the U.S. State Department</p> <p>Awarded two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowships in poetry</p> <p>Well-known in the early days of the performance-poetry scene, ...
ISBN: 9781938160318
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eBookby Narayan Das
<p>The cancerous tumour of caste system of our society would be cured, and the society would become one. Dr. Ambedkar said that the caste system was a very disgusting aspect of our society. By denying opportunities to rise, the Hindu social ...
ISBN: 9789388034531
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eBookAmbedkar And Grievances Of Scheduled Castes
by Narayan Das
<p>In the ancient under the class division (hierarchy) time, all the right and work of all the class was decided. Initially this was according to the work done by the people but later it me as per the family to which a person is born, the result
ISBN: 9789388034548
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eBookAmbedkar And Making Of Indian Constitution
by Narayan Das
<p>The contribution of Dr. Ambedkar in Indian Democracy is not to be forgotten. As a chairman of the Constitutional Committee he gave a shape to our country of a complete Sovereign, Democratic and Republic based on adult franchise. Baba Saheb ...
ISBN: 9789388034555
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eBookby Narayan Das
<p>A lawyer and a politician, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar left a deep impression on Indian society for at least three main reasons: he had a major influence on drawing up the Constitution of India; he introduced persons regarded as ’’untouchables’’ ...
ISBN: 9789388034562
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eBookby Narayan Das
<p>Greatness of a great person can be measured by the relation between what one professes and what is the truth, what one professes and how much of it one applies to oneself, and what effect one’s words and deeds have on the society at large. In
ISBN: 9789388034579
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eBookAmbedkar, Dalit Politics And Inclusion
by Narayan Das
<p>An autonomous Dalit leadership in India has always been perceived as synonymous to the leadership of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Though, it is a well-known fact that Dr. Ambedkar was the first Dalit leader who had an all India following, the ...
ISBN: 9789388034586
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eBookSocial Mobility and the Foundations of an Eglitarian Society, 1880 1940
by Erik Olssen & Clyde Griffen
<p><em>An Accidental Utopia?</em> investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social structure, focusing on three major ...
ISBN: 9781927322567
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