Tag: Capitalist

Free Download Chun-Yi Lee, "Chinese Labour in the Global Economy: Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367220474, 1138726605 | EPUB | pages: 162 | 0.8 mb
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back.

Free Download Jeffrey Surovell, "Capitalist Russia and the West"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138738980, 1138738948 | EPUB | pages: 322 | 0.7 mb
This title was first published in 2000: highly innovative work which challenges mainstream approaches to the study of Russian policy with its groundbreaking application of Marxism and dependency theories. Using class analysis, it examines, in a meticulously documented study, what is perhaps the most important issue in world politics today: Russia and the West. Unconventional yet powerful, it nevertheless comes up with highly persuasive conclusions. Whether one agrees with its challenging conclusions or not, they cannot be ignored.

Free Download Jeff Seward, "The Politics of Capitalist Transformation: Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367000296, 1138638188 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.8 mb
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.

Free Download Long Waves of Capitalist Development: A Marxist Interpretation by Ernest Mandel
English | June 17, 1995 | ISBN: 185984037X | True EPUB | 184 pages | 1.2 MB
In this revised and expanded edition of Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Ernest Mandel seeks to explain the underlying determinants of the booms and slumps of the trade cycle. Mandel first establishes that there have indeed been twenty- to twenty-five-year-long waves of capitalist expansion and contraction-and that these have persisted in the period since World War II. He then assembles evidence to show that while broad tendencies in the rate of profit have been decisive in triggering downturns, the ingredients necessary for a new upswing are, by contrast, generally political and extra-economic in character. He thereby demonstrates the falsity of neo-liberal doctrines, according to which the free market will itself generate a new formula for balanced and sustainable expansion.

Free Download Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal"
English | ISBN: 1478030712 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. For Bhattacharya, British colonization marked a transition from the older, multifaith folk world of traditional ghosts to newer and more frightening specters. These "modern" Bengali ghosts, borne out of a new rationality, were homogeneous specters amenable to "scientific" speculation and invoked at séance sessions in elite drawing rooms. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century. She argues that these shifts cemented the authority of a rising upper-caste colonial elite who expelled the older ghosts in order to recast Hinduism as the conscience of the Indian nation. In so doing, Bhattacharya reveals how capitalism necessarily reshaped Bengal as part of the global colonial project.

Free Download Juan Perez Sainz, "From The Finca To The Maquila: Labor And Capitalist Development In Central America"
English | 2000 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 0813338913 | PDF | 22,5 mb
The oligarchic crises in Central America has provoked a variety of responses at different levels during the last decades. The development of new agroexports in the 1950s, the import substitution industrialization of the 1960s, and the current opening up of trade along with the development of new tradables sectors under the influence of globalization, represent attempts to modernize the region’s economies. The same has occurred at the political level with the current democratization processes that have meant competitive elections taking place in all the countries. It is at the social level that responses have been most weak and levels of poverty remain extremely high. This book presents an analysis of contemporary Central American history from a social perspective and, more specifically, from that of one of its main components: the world of labor. Despite undeniable changes, this world is still made up of three basic logics. Labor markets reflect an inability to generate sufficient employment. Labor relations remain precarious. And labor subjects and actors solid enough for their voice to be heard have not managed to establish themselves. The result is that the world of labor in Central America is still marked by vulnerability.

Free Download The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age by Ralph Watson McElvenny, Marc Wortman
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1541768523 | 592 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
"A compelling new biography… [The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived] spins the Watsons into near-Shakespearean figures, as if ‘Succession’ were set in the era of ‘Mad Men’."​ ―The New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice

Free Download Capitalist Enterprise and Social Progress By Maurice Dobb
2012 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0415526353 | PDF | 7 MB
Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters stress the relevance of these considerations to the problems facing politicians and administrators.

Free Download New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment by Risa Dickens, Amy Torok
English | September 12, 2023 | ISBN: 1623177901 | 376 pages | PDF | 5.78 Mb
Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch-one for each New Moon of the year

Free Download Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (South Asia in Motion) by Ravinder Kaur
English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 1503612597 | 360 pages | MOBI | 4.96 Mb
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year