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Answers to the Labour Question
Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880-1945
Gary Mucciaroni
Drawing on newspaper accounts, parliamentary debates, and personal memoirs, among other sources, Answers to the Labour Question aims to understand the variety of state responses to industrial unrest and institutional change beyond the domain of industrial relations.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Series: Political Development: Comparative Perspectives
February 2024 1 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables 322pp
9781487551513 £33.00 Paperback now £23.10
Selling the Future
Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
Ryan Moran
Explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2024 14 b&w halftones, 1 map 276pp
9781501773297 £52.00 Hardback now £36.40
Disruption
The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War
Michael De Groot
In Disruption, Michael De Groot arguesrgues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War.
“Through multi-archival and multilingual analysis, Disruption delivers a cogent and forceful argument on the transformative implications of globalization for the end of the Cold War.” – Daniel J. Sargent, University of California, Berkeley
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2024 10 graphs 324pp
9781501774119 £48.00 Hardback now £33.60
Unexpected Revolutionaries
How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy
Manuela Moschella
Eye-opening and insightful, Unexpected Revolutionaries is necessary reading for discussions on the future of the neoliberal macroeconomic regime, the democratic oversight of monetary policymaking, and the role that central banks canor cannotplay in our domestic economies.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Cornell Studies in Money
May 2024 11 graphs 204pp
9781501774850 £38.00 Hardback now £26.60
"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender"
Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression
Linda Upham-Bornstein
During the Great Depression,the proliferation of local taxpayers’ associations was dramatic and unprecedented. The justly concerned members of these organizations examined the operations of state, city, and county governments, then pressed local officials for operational and fiscal reforms. These associationsaimed to reduce the cost of state and local governments to make operationsmore efficient and less expensive.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2023 220pp
9781439923740 £27.99 Paperback now £19.59
Betting on Macau
Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution
Tim Simpson
Betting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia, returned to the People’s Republic of China in 1999 after nearly half a millennium of Portuguese rule. Tim Simpson follows Macau’s emergence from historical obscurity to become the most profitable casino gaming locale in the world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Series: Globalization and Community
April 2023 39 black and white illustrations 384pp
9781517900311 £25.99 Paperback now £18.19
Beyond Economic Migration
Social, Historical, and Political Factors in US Immigration
Edited by Min Zhou and Hasan MahmudMost understandings of migration to the US focus on two primary factors. Either there was trouble in the home country that pushed people out, or there was a general yearning for what is often conceptualized as the American Dream.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2023
39 b/w illustrations 408pp
9781479818549 £27.99 Paperback now £19.59
Building a Social Contract
Modern Workers' Houses in EarlyTwentieth Century Detroit
Michael McCulloch
Michael McCulloch chronicles the efforts of employers, government agencies, and the building industry who, along with workers themselves, produced an unprecedented boom in housing construction that peaked in the mid-1920s.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
September 2023 240pp
9781439923924 £29.99 Paperback now £20.99
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism
Edited by Andrew Parnaby and Lachlan MacKinnonIn capturing the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both individually and collectively.
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
April 2024 500pp
9781771994040 £44.00 Paperback now £30.80
Dividing the Public
School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity
Matthew Gardner Kelly
Dividing the Public Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States and traces, in intricate detail, how a host of policies connected to school funding have divided California by race and class over time.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Histories of American Education
January 2024 7 maps, 1 chart, 1 graph 270pp
9781501773266 £22.99 Paperback now £16.09
Free Culture and the City
Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997–2017
Alberto Corsín Jiménez and Adolfo Estalella
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic and historical work, Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model for emulation.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
February 2023 17 b&w halftones 288pp
9781501767180 £34.00 Paperback now £23.80
Laboring for Justice
The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City
Rebecca Berke Galemba
Applying a public anthropology approach that integrates the experiences of community partners, students, policy makers, and activists in the production of research, this book uses the pressing issue of wage theft to offer a methodologically rigorous, community-engaged, and pedagogically innovative approach to the study of immigration, labor, inequality, and social justice.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2023 328pp
9781503635203 £27.99 Paperback now £19.59
Land of Extraction
Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism
Rebecca R. Scott
Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction explores fracking’s dual impact on settler colonial culture and sustainability
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2024 240pp
9781479821266 £25.99 Paperback now £18.19
Porcelain for the Emperor
Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China
Kai Jun Chen
Readers of Porcelain for the Emperor will learn how the imperial state’s intervention in industry left a lingering imprint on modern China through its modes of laborintensive production, the division of domestic and foreign markets, and, above all, a technocratic culture of centralization.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
March 2023 24 b&w illus., 23 color plates 248pp 9780295750828 £58.00 Hardback now £40.60
Tenement Nation
Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh
Christa Ballard Tooley
Tooley's study of the working-class Canongate community in Edinburgh's Old Town as they negotiate gentrification plans offers a complex view of class and nation. Tenement Nation looks at these negotiations between socioeconomic classes and even nationalities to show what Tooley calls a "working-class cosmopolitanism" in pursuit of social, economic, and political inclusion.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Framing the Global
August 2023 16 b&w illus. 276pp
9780253066008 £27.99 Paperback now £19.59
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair
The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics
David R. Bellhouse
Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair’s life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
August 2023 47 colour illustrations 356pp
9781487545031 £45.00 Hardback now £31.50
The Residential Is Racial
A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership
Adrienne Brown
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Post*45
March 2024 406pp
9781503638648 £25.99 Paperback now £18.19
The Root and the Branch
Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Sean Griffin
Bridging the gap between the histories of abolitionism, capitalism and slavery, and the origins of the Civil War, The Root and the Branch recovers a long-overlooked story of cooperation and coalition-building between labor reformers and abolitionists and unearths new evidence about the contributions of artisan reformers, transatlantic radicals, free Black activists, and ordinary working men and women to the development of antislavery politics.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Series: America in the Nineteenth Century
May 2024 296pp
9781512825923 £45.00 Hardback now £31.50
The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico
Cori Hayden
Explores how consumer access to generic drugs has transformed public health care and the politics of pharmaceuticals in the global South. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
January 2023 10: 9 HT, 1 line 256pp
9781478019046 £21.99 Paperback now £15.39
Traders and Tinkers
Bazaars in the Global Economy
Maitrayee Deka
This book offers a deep ethnography of three Delhi informal marketplaces, or bazaars, and a cast of tinkers, traders, magicians, street performers, and hackers who work there. It is an exploration, and recognition, of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy, driving globalization from below.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Culture and Economic Life
August 2023 248pp
9781503636002 £25.99 Paperback now £18.19
Twilight of the Self
The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism
Michael Thompson
In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2022 348pp
9781503632455 £23.99 Paperback now £16.79
Workers of All Colors Unite
Race and the Origins of American Socialism
Lorenzo Costaguta
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others rejected the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Series: Working Class in American History
March 2023 7 black & white photographs 256pp
9780252087073 £23.99 Paperback now £16.79