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  • Contested Domains

    Debates in International Labour Studies

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory, new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience and struggles. The dual theme of the book is the control which the state ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Endgame in South Africa?

    The Changing Structures and Ideology of Apartheid

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The white monopoly of political power; the attempt to make race coincide with space; the regulation of the labour supply; the maintenance of social control. Originally published in 1986 and now reissued with a new preface by Robin Cohen, this book acknowledges that the above are the four pillars of apartheid and asks if white political power were dislodged whether the other three pillarswould ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Global Diasporas

    An Introduction

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the field. This expanded and fully-revised 25th anniversary edition adds two new chapters on incipient diasporas and diaspora engagement while carefully clarifying the changing meanings of the concept of diaspora and ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Frontiers of Identity

    The British and the Others

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, this book considers one of the enduring themes of social science. How is a national identity forged and sustained? How does it change over time? Who is included in the body politic and who is socially excluded? How do the established population, opinion-makers and politicians react to more marginal people, including long-spurned minorities and recent migrants?This ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • The New Helots

    Migrants in the International Division of Labour

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a substantial introduction by Robin Cohen, this wide-ranging work of comparative and historical sociology argues that a major engine of capital’s growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, mines and factories of an expanding international division of labour. These workers, like the helots of ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Migration and its Enemies

    Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Can politicians effectively control national borders even if they wish to do so? How do politically powerless migrants relate to more privileged migrants and to national citizens? Is it possible for capital to move to labour rather than vice versa? In this book Robin Cohen shows how the preferences, interests and actions of the three major social actors in international migration policy - global ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Labour and Politics in Nigeria

    by Robin Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1974 and with a new introduction for the 1981 edition, this book is a clear and vivid history of the role of organized labour in the politics of Nigeria. It covers the period from the first General Strike of 1945 to the civil war and reintegration of the country. As well as providing an analysis of the characteristics and attitudes of Nigeria’s wage earners, this study is ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Democracy And Socialism In Africa

    by Robin Cohen ...
    After independence many African countries abjured conventional patterns of political representation and democratic participation in the interest of creating a unified state and promoting economic development. Today, however, the dominant models of one-party democracy and African socialism are in terminal collapse as a result of internal pressures a ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Encountering Difference

    by Robin Cohen, Olivia Sheringham ...
    In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another. This fascinating book shows how people from various societies learn to live with social diversity and cultural difference, and considers how the concepts of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Refugia

    Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement

    by Robin Cohen, Nicholas Van Hear ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age – how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear filtered out, their vision of a new, networked, transnational archipelago ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Repression and Resistance

    Insider Accounts of Apartheid

    Edited by Robin Cohen, Yvonne G. Muthien, Abebe Zegeye ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1990, this book provides a unique view of South Africa and when it was published, it represented a coming of age of a new and vigorous strand of scholarship. The contributors are black social scientists, doctors or trade unionists, some working inside black universities which subsequently turned against the apartheid planners who created them. This book reflects the ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Popular Struggles in South Africa

    Edited by Robin Cohen, William Cobbett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    ‘Popular Struggles or One Struggle?’ Originally published in 1988 shortly after the miners’ strike in South Africa of 1987, this book begins with a strongly argued and seminal discussion of this question by William Cobbett and Robin Cohen. The book had an urgency and relevance at its time of original publication, but many of the themes it discusses remain as relevant today. Nearly all the ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD