Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
Selling Apartheid
South Africa's Global Propaganda War
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
This book lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South African government in the attempt to bolster support for their apartheid regime. The world-wide campaign consisted of the government burnishing its image overseas, selling apartheid to the US and the UK in particular. *BR**BR*Costing...
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity
Coffee in Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Fair trade is widely regarded as a universal good. This fascinating anthropological study takes a closer look at a coffee-growing community and cooperatives in Costa Rica - and subjects the fair trade movement to critical scrutiny. *BR**BR*As with conventional coffee, Western demand for organic fair...
Dot.compradors
Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
'India Shining' has become the brand name for a new India presented in Bollywood films, adverts and books. A key part of this image is the software industry, held up as the symbol of prosperity and post-modernity.*BR**BR*Dot.compradors reveals the darker reality behind 'India Shining', providing a...
War Against the People
Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people today?
War Against the People is a disturbing insight into the new ways world powers such as the US, Israel, Britain and China forge war today. It is...
The Battle For China's Past
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
--Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens--*BR**BR*"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed."...
Generation Palestine
Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of international law, have made Palestine the moral cause of a generation. Yet many people continue to ask, 'what can we do?'*BR**BR*Generation Palestine helps...
Class Matters
Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent...
Durkheim
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and allowing the reader to see his ideas afresh.*BR**BR*This...
1916
Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
A few minutes after noon on the 24th April, 1916, Patrick Pearse stepped outside the newly occupied GPO on Sackville Street with a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Reading aloud, he declared a strike for Irish freedom against the world’s greatest imperial power. *BR**BR*The Easter...
Weber
Sociologist of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He is often referred to as a sophisticated 'value-free' sociologist. This new critical introduction argues that Weber's sociology cannot be divorced from his political standpoint. Weber saw himself as a 'class conscious bourgeois' and his sociology...
by Zülküf Aydin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy.
Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. Social unrest, political...
Ends in Sight
Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2008
Following the disappearance of the Soviet Union, scholars across the political spectrum tackled the world-historical significance of the end of communism. This book addresses the balance-sheets of modern political history offered by three writers -- Francis Fukuyama, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson...
by Alana Lentin
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
‘Remarkable ... a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day.’ Zygmunt Bauman *BR**BR*This is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both political discourse and social movement...
by Roman Rosdolsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Rosdolsky's Making of Marx's 'Capital'' is a major work of interpretation and criticism, written over fifteen years by one of the foremost representatives of the European marxist tradition.Rosdolsky investigates the relationship between various versions of Capital and explains the reasons for Marx's...