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The collapse of the monolithic Soviet state sounded the death knell for many myths about the Soviet Union. Yet one of the most persistent misappreh...

Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household syst...

Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household syst...

This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and...

“To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has bee...

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World....

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World....

Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreaking critique of conglomeration in the book industry, André Schiffrin turns...

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employ...

"Deeply researched, lucid and persuasive."–Joe Moran, Times Literary SupplementTracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout h...

An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalismAutomation and the declin...

The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first time Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important w...

We all need jobs to live, yet capitalist work is destroying the planet. What are the possibilities for convergence between workplace and community ...

In this comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. He provides a measured assessm...

The portrait of a young artist making both a living and a lifeAs a young artist trying to make a living in New York without sacrificing all her tim...

The portrait of a young artist making both a living and a lifeAs a young artist trying to make a living in New York without sacrificing all her tim...

A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENERGYDaniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as ...

A new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS...

What does it mean to be a politically committed writer?Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of rece...

Discussion of fiction, poetry and cultural history is given central place in Wald’s analysis. From this perspective he argues that the contemporary...

A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski’s coming of age in a time of great possibility, duri...

Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, explor...

From invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West!The “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Weste...