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  • Global Enterprise in Australia

    International Business Down Under since Federation

    by Simon Ville, Pierre van der Eng, André Sammartino, David Merrett, Monica Keneley ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    For two centuries, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have arrived in waves on Australia’s shores. Highly visible and influential household names among them – Ford, IBM, Kodak, Electrolux, ANZ – but also many smaller, lesser-known enterprises. Foreign MNEs in Australia today account for almost half of our top 2,000 firms and control over A$1.4 trillion of assets. There is much we do not understand ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Paint Your Town Red

    How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

    by Rhian Jones, Matthew Brown ...
    Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Over Here and Undertaxed: Multinationals, Tax Avoidance and You

    by Richard Murphy ...
    Tax has rocketed to the top of the news agenda. When Amazon, Google and Starbucks were pulled up in front of the Public Accounts Committee, many were stunned at how little corporation tax they paid (if at all) in a time of austerity and government cuts. How can a tax gap of �12 billion be justified, when a CEO can take home $101 million a year? There is a growing realization that maybe we aren't ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Power and the People

    A History of British Energy

    by Arthur Downing ...
    The argument for a revolution in the ownership of our national energy system, from a leading industry insider.The energy crisis of the early 2020s exposed the true nature of Britain’s energy system: fragile, fragmented, comically complicated, and hopelessly dependent on imported fossil fuels. How did it come to this? Power and the People uncovers the hidden history of British energy from the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Act now

    A vision for a better future and a new social contract

    by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling ...
    An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Can We Be Rich Again?

    The Surprising Potential of Britain's Economy

    by Jeremy Hunt ...
    Britain's economy is stuck.In recent years, a succession of economic shocks has led to low growth, stagnant living standards and divided politics. As debt and taxes have risen to record levels, many worry that the UK economy is stuck in a low-growth trap with ruinous implications for future generations.Jeremy Hunt was Chancellor during one of those shocks and successfully navigated the economy out ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

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  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    by Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack ...
    Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Home Truths

    The UK's chronic housing shortage – how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it

    by Liam Halligan ...
    The UK's chronic housing shortage is lowering the quality of life for millions, turning the British dream of home ownership into a cruel nightmare – not least for 'generation rent'. Countless vulnerable families are meanwhile being deprived of access to decent social housing, causing homelessness to spiral.In this searing polemic, Liam Halligan offers radical solutions to the most urgent political ... Read more

    $8.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Labour

    wage theft in the age of inequality

    by Ben Schneiders ...
    A startling investigation of how some of Australia’s best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Whether it’s at McDonald’s, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billions of dollars have been unlawfully taken from workers at countless businesses, large and small.Hard ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Tax Haven Ireland

    by Brian OBoyle, Kieran Allen ...
    This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world’s major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream politicians, those taking advantage of Ireland’s pro-business tax laws and shadow banking system have amassed untold riches at enormous social cost to ordinary people at home and abroad.Tax Haven Ireland ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Place of Fear II

    A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means “change but no change” and that a Yes voter endorses Alex Salmond and the SNP. There is a far more radical road, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Privatising humanity

    How our essential human needs became financial assets

    by Kate Bayliss ...
    A powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets.We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now targeted by someone seeking to make a profit.In Privatising humanity, Kate Bayliss shows how wealthy investors, ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD