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  • The Urbanization of People

    The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

    by Eli Friedman ...
    Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship.The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Urbanization of People

    The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

    by Eli Friedman ...
    Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship.The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Israeli Discourse and the West Bank

    Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement

    by Elie Friedman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri ...
    Series series Cultural Discourse Studies Series
    How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized? Specifically, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how can 50 years of Israeli control over the Occupied Territories become accepted within Israeli society as a normal, possibly even banal phenomenon? Conversely, how can such a situation be estranged from daily reality, denied any ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Insurgency Trap

    Labor Politics in Postsocialist China

    by Eli Friedman ...
    During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Involution

    A Worker Inquiry Amid China's Youth Unemployment Wave

    by Gonglao Collective ...
    Translated by Eli Friedman ...
    Series series Hundred Flowers
    A fascinating, intimate window onto China’s intensifying youth employment crisisChina’s hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The China Question

    Toward Left Perspectives

    Edited by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Ashley Smith ...
    Is there a “Left perspective” on the US-China rivalry?The US-China conflict is no straightforward Great Power rivalry. Understanding it requires wrestling with its multiple dimensions and consequences, from geopolitics to economic interdependence, anti-Asian racism in the US and organizing amongst immigrant diasporas, social movements in China and the character of Chinese capitalism. This ebook ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edited by Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Striking to Survive

    Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China

    by Ellen Friedman, Eli Friedman ...
    In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Polarization and Consensus-Building in Israel

    The Center Cannot Hold

    Edited by Elie Friedman, Michal Neubauer-Shani, Paul Scham ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    This edited volume examines the most pressing social and political issues confronting Israel from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the breakdown of social solidarity and the inability to formulate consensus.The contributors – encompassing political scientists, historians, communication researchers, sociologists, economists, and educators – focus on specific topics that serve as ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • China in Global Capitalism

    Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry

    by Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith, Kevin Lin ...
    As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever.From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US media tends to present contemporary China—when it’s discussed at all—in sensationalist terms. This portrayal has only intensified as ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century

    by Elie Wiesel, Thomas L. Friedman ...

    $19.99 CAD

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    by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Marion Wiesel ...
    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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