Pluto Press: 574 books
Ground Down by Growth
Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables' and ‘tribals' fit into the global economy. *BR**BR*India’s Dalit and Adivasi...
@ is for Activism
Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?*BR**BR*Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have risen to the fore, @ is for Activism maps out...
Life Without Money
Building Fair and Sustainable Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises continue.*BR**BR*We urgently need to combat those who...
Tyranny of the Moment
Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. *BR**BR*Who would have expected that apparently timesaving...
Imaginary Futures
From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Internet is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.*BR**BR*At the height of the Cold War, the Americans invented the only working model of communism in human history: the...
Cultivating Development
An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?*BR**BR*By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development...
Totalled
Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our societal relations, weaving deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how it is a system that totalises and which has upended the modernity project by industrialised warfare,...
Open Borders
The Case Against Immigration Controls
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
'A very impressive achievement.' Ann Dummett, founder, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants'Teresa Hayter has written a formidably comprehensive book on the history, mechanisms, and debates surrounding immigration controls in Britain ... The crux of Hayter's argument is that immigration controls...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security.*BR**BR*This book argues that the main reason why...
Student Revolt
Voices of the Austerity Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017**BR**BR*Whatever happened to the student revolt? In 2010 young people across Britain took to the streets to defy a wave of government attacks on education, increasing tuition fees, and cuts to grants for college students. Months of occupations,...
Being Red
A Politics for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
In Being Red, Ken Livingstone serves up an account of the Labour Party and its future, at a pivotal moment in its history. Having worked most of his life within the party in various leading roles; as the head of the Greater London Council, as Member of Parliament and as Mayor of London, Livingstone...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O’Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than...
Media Amnesia
Rewriting the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
From Donald Trump, to Brexit and the rise of nationalist populism across Europe, what role has the media played in shaping our current political moment?*BR**BR*Following the news coverage of a decade-long crisis that includes the 2008 financial crash and the Great Recession, the UK deficit, the eurozone...
Hope Lies in the Proles
George Orwell and the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood.*BR**BR*Hope Lies in the Proles offers a sympathetic...