Inside Mining Capitalism. The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts, Paperback - ***

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continen...

Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Stuart KirschIllustration(s): 15 b-w illustrations and 3 mapNumber of pages: 328Publication dat...

Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, raci...

Capitalism has swallowed us whole. It's a love hate relationship.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Don MilliganNumber of pages: 192Publicat...

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by ...

Publisher: Interactive PublicationsAuthor(s): David AtwoodNumber of pages: 54Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 211 x 145 x 9Cover type: Paperback /...

How the logic of work has crept into everything we do, even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities

Examining the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addressing them from the perspective of performance.

DescriptionCreation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues ...

Reducere. First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine...

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Philip JonesNumber of pages: 144Publicatio...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 384Collection: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and EconomyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 ...

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling secondhand clothing and oth...

Reducere. From Grapevine, the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, powerful stories of hope and peace Getting and staying sober in prison can be to...

Reducere. What does it mean to follow the path of Christ today? ``Putting on the Mind of Christ`` is the first book to offer an integral understanding of the...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking wh...

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen's illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of...

Reducere. What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that g...

Exploring his unique and interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, this book emphasises...

Reducere. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examin...

Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understand...

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.Illustrations: 70 illustrations

Reducere. Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes t...

Geert Reuten offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system, showing that the capitalist economy and the capitalist state constitute a uni...

Politics perspectives have become a cornerstone in the field of international business. This book offers the first detailed introduction to the fou...

Reducere. March 11, 2011. The T hoku earthquake struck just before three on a Friday afternoon. Massive earthquake damage was followed by tsunami rising to h...

As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself, a...

Art Work. Seeing Inside the Creative Process - Ivan Vartanian

Contributor(s): Author: Gavin BascomKeeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text b...

Reducere. To be able to generate new ways of being human, we need many new paradigms. Humanity needs upgraded versions of anatomy, of psychology and pioneeri...

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well--known in the Marxist--fem...

Reducere. An approachable, hands-on guide to understanding how computers work, from low-level circuits to high-level code. How Computers Really Work is a han...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tim CrothersAuthor: Roy WilliamsNow in paperback, updated with an afterword and new photos. One of the most respected and s...

Publisher: Beacon BooksAuthor(s): Munyaradzi Felix MuroveNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. What happened to the Barack Obama that America voted for? Now available in paperback with exclusive new material, bestselling author and psycho-ana...

Work is more than labor, it's the intent to fulfill an assignment that God has graced for our lives. Procrastination: A Kingdom Perspective On The ...

"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary...

Reducere. During his career as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver was called ``baseball's resident genius.`` His distinctive style of managing...