Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
Economics After Capitalism
A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. However, there is an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just one alternative, but many.*BR**BR*Challenging the arguments for markets,...
Anthropology and Development
Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century.
Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten new edition of the...
Neoliberalism
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology shaping our world today. It dictates the policies of governments, and shapes the actions of key institutions such as the WTO, IMF, World Bank and European Central Bank. Its political and economic implications can hardly be overstated.*BR**BR*Yet there are obvious...
Poverty and Neoliberalism
Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
"This thoroughly researched book unveils the conceptual uses and abuses of 'poverty'. ... Ray Bush breaks new ground in the way we think about class and other social struggles in Africa."
Patrick Bond, Director, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa
"Bush...
by Sylvia Kritzinger, Raj S. Chari
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
EU policy shapes all areas of our lives - from our money, to our food, to our welfare. Yet we know little about how EU decisions are made, and who benefits from them. This book is a critical guide to the policies of the EU.*BR**BR*Raj Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger argue that there is an agenda that...
A Flawed Freedom
Rethinking Southern African Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S. Saul examines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels...
Negotiating Local Knowledge
Power and Identity in Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2003
This is an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, they look at the variety of ways in which development policies are received and constructed, to reveal the ways in which local knowledge are appropriated...
Power, Profit and Prestige
A History of American Imperial Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Power, Profit and Prestige applies incisive historical and sociological analysis to make sense of the United States’ post-Cold War imperial behaviour.
Philip Golub studies imperial identity formation and shows how an embedded culture of force and expansion has shaped American foreign policy....
Catching History on the Wing
Race, Culture and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing...
Reclaiming the Nation
The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This book compares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism, a time marked by serial economic crises, escalating social conflicts, the re-militarisation of North-South relations and the radicalisation of social and nationalist forces. Sam Moyo and...
Global Politics of Regionalism
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2005
This book explores the phenomenon of regionalism. In a seeming contradiction to globalization, there is a growing tendency for countries to enter into regional arrangements as a response to the pressures of operating in a global marketplace. But regionalism is also emerging as a phenomenon in its...
Global Cities At Work
New Migrant Divisions of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the...
Just Work?
Migrant Workers' Struggles Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century. From workers' organisations in South African migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this...
Contesting Transformation
Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.*BR**BR*Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements, this collection takes stock of the contradiction...