Geoff Eley and Keith Nield, The Future of Class in History: What’s Left of the Social? (University of Michigan, 2007), £15.95 Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (University of Michigan, 2006), £14.50 For… Continue Reading
Toby Shelley, Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy (Zed, 2007), £14.99 Exploited should be a basic reference for all those concerned with economic, social and political aspects of migration today. This short book contains a mass of information… Continue Reading
Matt Perry, Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921–45 (Ashgate, 2007), £55 The inter-war period was turbulent for the working class movement. In the aftermath of the First World War revolution was in the… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestoes Volume 1: Democratizing Democracy—Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon (Verso, 2007), £24.99 Volume 2: Another Production is Possible (Verso, 2007), £24.99 Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a radical social theorist active… Continue Reading
Adam David Morton, Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Economy (Pluto, 2007), £18.99 Antonio Gramsci used the concept of “passive revolution” to explain the process leading to the unification of Italy in 1861. The relative backwardness of the country… Continue Reading
Joseph A Massad, Desiring Arabs (University of Chicago, 2007), £18 Sexual freedom has become an issue in international politics, with allegations of Muslim homophobia used to justify the superiority of the West and the “war on terror”. Joseph A Massad… Continue Reading
Matthew Paterson, Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (Cambridge University, 2007), £15.99 Matthew Paterson’s important new book provides a Marxist analysis of the car’s dominance, including sections on its economic, cultural and ecological aspects. In 2006 nine of the… Continue Reading
Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University, 2007), £14.95 In 2004 the French government banned “conspicuous signs” of religious affiliation in schools. Although the ban seemed to apply to all religions equally, it was clearly targeted at… Continue Reading
Ken Jones et al, Schooling in Western Europe: The New Order and Its Adversaries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), £45 “There is something dodgy”, remarked Charles Clarke, while secretary of state for education in 2003, “about the idea of learning for its… Continue Reading
Marcel van der Linden, Western Marxism and the Soviet Union (Brill, 2007), £56 One central issue confronted all revolutionary socialists in the six decades from the late 1920s to the early 1990s. A state covering a third of the Earth’s… Continue Reading