Economie

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

This book explores the relationship between the state and war within the context of seismic technological change. As we experience a fourth industrial revolution, technology already exerts a huge imp …

The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personif …

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize around …

Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 – A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Wired Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

The home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience.  It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battlegr …

The future looks bleak for Generation Z unless they can wrest the narrative from a derelict political class. Politicians of left and right, obsessed with their own careers and blinded by outdated ide …

An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalism The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popu …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a Rorschach test for society: everyone sees something different in it, and the range of political and economic responses to the crisis can leave us feeling overwhelmed. This …