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  • The Global Prehistory of Human Migration

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory.Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, genetics, biology, ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Migration as Economic Imperialism

    How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances that migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national development for poor and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of World Cities

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    First Published in 2017. This encyclopedia, in A-Z format, has as its subject those cities that are the most important to the world in terms of their cultural, historic, economic, demographic or political significance: some 150 world cities are included. City profiles focus on areas such as economy, demographics, labour, culture, crime, education, health, housing, land and environment etc., as ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Southern Insurgency

    The Coming of the Global Working Class

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    The site of industrial struggle is shifting. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. This is the first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed

    Labor Conflicts During the 1990's

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
    This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's. Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in the political mobilization of the jobless to expand unemployment insurance and lessen the threat of lower wages, reduced union density, and weaker bargaining positions for unions. Despite these advantages, trade unions ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Organizing Insurgency

    Workers' Movements in the Global South

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism.Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ours to Master and to Own

    Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present

    Edited by Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness ...
    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 creatinginstitutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Withspecific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, thispathbreaking volume ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism

    Edited by Zak Cope, Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage in foreign intervention and "just war" because they feel a responsibility toward the international community? Or are these actions rationalizations for the pursuit of commercial, industrial, financial, and military ... Read more

    $206.39 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of American Social Movements

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice. ... Read more

    $790.16 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States

    by Immanuel Ness ...
    A comprehensive general reference on major American interest groups. This encyclopedia provides information on the lobbies and interest groups that dominate modern American politics. It provides descriptions of 13 categories of groups, followed by A-Z entries on the groups within that category. ... Read more

    $357.28 CAD

  • New Forms of Worker Organization

    The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

    Edited by Immanuel Ness ...
    Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers’ interests.As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism:

    Organizing for Justice in Our Communities

    by Immanuel Ness, Stuart Eimer ...
    Central Labor Councils are the local arm of the labor movement responsible for coordinating collective activities among different unions in a region. Once quite powerful organizations with important political roles at local and regional levels, CLCs waned significantly during the 1940s and 50s. This work examines the recent re-emergence of Central Labor Councils and how they are being utilized as ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD