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Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. Definitions of social work often include goals of social change, social justice, empowerment, and the liberation of people, but social work texts make little mention of extralegal actions. Mainstream conceptions of social work usually consider it...
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The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases revealed in court proceedings.
In the US, bankers and financial officials whose unethical and illegal behavior contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic scandals rarely faced prosecution for their activities. Instead either...
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En tiempos en que la protesta social contra la histórica desigualdad en Chile ocupa las primeras planas de los medios periodísticos internacionales, este libro es un excelente recurso para entender las inequidades en dicha sociedad y sistema educativo, pero también posibles avenidas para contribuir a una sociedad más justa y equitativa. Todos aquellos interesados en conocer más a fondo la realidad social y educativa de Chile, y que estrategias...
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Las elites han estado en el centro de muchos de los debates de las últimas décadas y a ellas se alude constantemente; sin embargo, la discusión ha estado tradicionalmente constreñida a interpretaciones categóricas que han tendido a criticar la traición de la burguesía a la revolución en pro de su aristocratización. En un momento fundamental de desmantelamiento del Antiguo Régimen y construcción del Estado-nación liberal, este grupo situado...
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The feminist movement in Japan has impacted every aspect of contemporary life there. Now more than ever, the myth of a homogenous population living within traditional gender roles is being challenged. LGBT people are coming out of the closet; ethnic minorities are mobilizing for change; single mothers are an expanding population; women are becoming political leaders and professional wrestlers as men are becoming house husbands. Transforming Japan...
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Social factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and economic conditions, resulting in deep-rooted health disparities that carry over from generation to generation. In Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, authors call for collective action across sectors to reverse the debilitating and often lethal consequences of health inequity.
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Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle class, and the owning class-and every place in between-the contributors describe their class journeys in narrative form, recounting one or two key stories...
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El texto que presentamos a ustedes, queridos lectores, no solo recoge el producto de algo más de un año de intenso trabajo de la Escuela lntercultural, estas páginas también intentan mostrar los sentimientos, emociones, propuestas, luchas, limitaciones, errores y energías que ese periodo de tiempo ha traído como enseñanza. Nuestra apuesta académica, laboral y política tiene su punto cero en la confianza en la interculturalidad. La interculturalidad...
9) $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution
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$pread, an Utne Award-winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply traumatic to totally hilarious, analysis of media and culture, and fantastic illustrations and photos produced just for the magazine. The book also features the previously untold story of $pread and how it has built a wider...
10) Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination
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Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize academic criminology while formulating critical criminology. They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers...
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a witty and satirical reflection on culture and appearances. Throughout the friendship between a gifted 12-year old and a concierge who is more than what she lets on, Muriel Barbery denounces the pretentions of the French bourgeoisie and their tendency to rely only on appearances.
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Even mainstream media like the New York Times and The Economist have recently posed the question: "Why don't the poor rise up?" Uneasily amazed that capitalism hasn't met with greater resistance. In the context of unparalleled global wealth disparity, ecological catastrophe, and myriad forms of structural oppression, this vibrant collection offers a reassessment of contemporary obstacles to mass mobilization, as well as examples from around the world...
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Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty-or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answer with a resounding yes.
Published in conjunction with one of the country's leading anti-poverty centers, Ending Poverty in America brings together respected social...
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This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of Critical International Political Economy to interrogate how we might begin to envisage a political economy of postcapitalism.
The authors foreground the agency of workers and other capitalist subjects,...
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Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the year the world changed, perhaps it was simply the moment the...
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Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain.
Scenes from the Revolution is a celebration of fifty years of political theatre in Britain. Including 'lost' scripts from companies including Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre, The Women's Theatre Group and The General Will, with...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of White Trash tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Nancy Isenberg's book. This short summary and analysis of White Trash includes: Historical context, chapter-by-chapter overviews, profiles of the main characters, detailed timeline of events, important quotes, fascinating trivia, glossary of terms, and supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About...
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This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity,...
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From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this path breaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated...
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Bicycling has the radical potential of equalizing our transportation system, creating more equitable opportunities from the personal to the societal, and being a vehicle for protest and social justice. But that isn't how it always works. The contributors to this volume of Taking the Lane zine tackle of the potentials and realities and unintended consequences of trying to create a better world using human-powered transportation.
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