Pluto Press: 574 books
by Stephen Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides...
The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism
The Post-Soviet Economy in the World System
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of contemporary Russian capitalism are often all too often read as a juncture with the past. In reality, Russia's current capitalist system originated in the degenerated Soviet bureaucracy, alongside the pressures of global capital. *BR**BR*From Roman...
by Minqi Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash. But will this be the case the next time the system goes into shock? By looking at the big questions of class struggle, global economic imbalances, peak oil, climate change and political power play, Minqi Li argues that...
by Douglas Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Inequality, per se, has been with us for millennia. With the creation, growth and deepening of Capitalism across the globe, inequalities take on new dimensions, unknown in previous eras. As Capitalism has spread its wings across the globe over the last 200 or so years, so inequalities have deepened...
Beyond Occupation
Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Is Israel following international law? This collection looks at three contentious terms that arise in contemporary arguments about Israel's practices towards Palestinians – occupation, colonialism and apartheid, and how they are manipulated by the Israeli state.*BR**BR*These essays present conclusive...
People, Peace and Power
Conflict Transformation in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2002
Millions of people around the world live in countries torn apart by war, where violence and suffering are part of everyday life. Yet in all those countries there are groups of people working for peace in the midst of war, standing up for human rights and decency. What difference can they make? What...
by Shir Hever
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Between 1994-2014, Israel’s security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created ‘Occupation Inc.’: the institution of a private military-security-industrial...
Ulrich Beck
A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Ulrich Beck has emerged as one of the leading thinkers of the age. His principal claim to fame is as author of the widely acclaimed 'Risk Society', first published in 1986. Since this time, Beck's work has had a profound effect on the trajectory of social theory, leading to him being hailed as a zietgeist...
Working the Phones
Control and Resistance in Call Centres
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017**BR**BR**Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize**BR**BR*Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and...
The Unchosen
The Lives of Israel's New Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Drawing on a decade of courageous and pioneering reporting, Mya Guarnieri Jaradat brings us an unprecedented and compelling look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel, who hail mainly from Africa and Asia.From illegal kindergartens to anti-immigrant rallies, from detention centres...
Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The failure of attempts to tackle global poverty have bred cynicism and 'compassion fatigue'. Eradicating Extreme Poverty provides an urgently needed fresh approach which will re-energise action on this issue.*BR**BR*Rejecting traditional 'top-down' approaches, Xavier Godinot and his colleagues start...
Escape Routes
Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes...
Epic Recession
Prelude to Global Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble. With unemployment levels approaching 25 million and banks sustained by trillions of government dollars, are governments and economists understanding the crisis correctly? *BR**BR*Examining US economic history, Jack Rasmus reveals how the 2008...
Capitalism's New Clothes
Enterprise, Ethics and Enjoyment in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.*BR**BR*Using materialist, psychoanalytic and...