Award-Winning Titles

AWARD-WINNING TITLES One Up

Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games Joost van Dreunen Choice Outstanding Academic Title

One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it has evolved from a fringe activity to become a mainstream form of entertainment. Joost van Dreunen demonstrates that video game companies flourish when they bring the same level of creativity to business strategy that they bring to game design.

$29.95/ £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19752-6 2020 296 pages 39 illus.

COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING

Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Albena Azmanova

BEST BOOK PRIZE, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY SECTION, ISA

MICHAEL HARRINGTON BOOK AWARD, NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE CAUCUS, APSA Albena Azmanova demonstrates that capitalism is not on its deathbed, revolution is not in the cards, and utopianism cannot steer us toward a brighter future—but radical change can manifest from within capitalism itself.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19537-9 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19536-2 2020 272 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

Buying Gay

How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement David K. Johnson

WINNER, JOHN BOSWELL PRIZE, THE COMMITTEE ON LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER HISTORY

WINNER, PROFESSIONAL PRIZE, NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM AWARDS FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN POSTAL HISTORY Buying Gay reconceives the history of the gay rights movement and shows how consumer culture helped create community and a site for resistance.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18911-8 $34.00 / $28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18910-1 2019 328 pages 55 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

City of Workers, City of Struggle

How Labor Movements Changed New York Edited by Joshua B. Freeman

WINNER, BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, INTERNATIONAL LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION

City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19193-7 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19192-0 2019 248 pages 225 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

Working for Respect

Community and Conflict at Walmart Adam Reich and Peter Bearman

WINNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD

Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.

$24.00 / £18.99.- paper 978-0-231-18843-2 $32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-188425 2018 352 pages 11 illus.

Banking on Freedom

Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal Shennette Garrett-Scott

WINNER, DARLENE CLARK HINE AWARD, ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS

WINNER, LETITIA WOODS BROWN BOOK PRIZE, ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS WINNER, BENNETT H. WALL AWARD, SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia, the first and only bank run by black women.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18391-8 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18390-1 2019 288 pages 17 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

In Defence of Philanthropy

Beth Breeze

WINNER, AFP SKYSTONE PARTNERS PRIZE FOR RESEARCH ON FUNDRAISING AND PHILANTHROPY, ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS In an impassioned defense of the role of philanthropy in society, Beth Breeze tackles the main critiques leveled at philanthropy and questions the rationale for undermining, disparaging, and trivializing philanthropic acts.

$30.00 paper 978-1-788212618

$90.00 cloth 978-1-78821-260-1 2021 240 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

In China’s Wake

How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South Nicholas Jepson

Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with finegrained analysis of how the boom played out across fifteen different resource-rich countries.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18797-8 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18796-1 2020 376 pages 40 illus.