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A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car ... The explosion in the development of computer- and robot-based manufacturing is seeing the...

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggleAcross the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is ...

An anti-capitalist guide to breaking the power of Big TechBig Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In t...

Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmod...

On the fraught bonds between daughters and their fathers, women and the patriarchywomen patriarchy In this beguiling, incisive book, critically acc...

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the wom...

Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar NegtCollaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist...

A new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic work of Black history and politics, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée F...

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was “Russia’s greatest contribution to world civilization.” Since the mid-nineteen...

Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead’s artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in the...

A groundbreaking new analysis of the making of modernity, sexuality and raceIf race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does...

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of ‘literature’ has been something of a poor relation. This ...

"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa."–Prof...

With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of ...

From the Armenian communities of Venice Beach and Paris, to Turkey and Armenia, Deep Mountain is a nuanced and moving exploration of the living his...

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely a...

“Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo...

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY’S VELVET GLOVEThe history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democ...

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is widely regarded as one of the leading social thinkers of our time. In Democracy Realized Unger gives detailed content t...

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few?Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue th...

Worker representation is the first step toward democratizing the economyAlthough contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as “democratic,...