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Working Classes, Global Realities: Socialist Register 2001
Contributor(s): Panitch, Leo (Editor), Leys, Colin (Editor), Albo, Greg (Editor)
ISBN: 1583670319     ISBN-13: 9781583670316
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
OUR PRICE:   $74.25  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: "The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964."
"--Mike Davis"

"Compulsory reading."
"--Daniel Singer"

Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it affects workers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Theoretical contributions explore today's old and new working classes, workers "north" and "south," peasants and workers, gender and the working class, as well as migrant and knowledge workers. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.

Contributions include: Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Henry Bernstein, Peter Kwong, Eric Mann, Ursula Huws, Andree Levesque, Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Rosemary, Brigitte Young, Rohini Banaji, Gerard Greenfield, Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu, Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller, Greg Ruiter, Huw Beynon & Jose Ramalho, Justin Paulson, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, David Mandel, Michael Goldfield, and Steve Jeffreys.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 331.8
LCCN: 009500529
Series: Socialist Register
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.34" W x 9.32" (1.51 lbs) 300 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964.
--Mike Davis
Compulsory reading.
--Daniel Singer
Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it affects workers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Theoretical contributions explore today's old and new working classes, workers north and south, peasants and workers, gender and the working class, as well as migrant and knowledge workers. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.
Contributions include: Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Henry Bernstein, Peter Kwong, Eric Mann, Ursula Huws, Andree Levesque, Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Rosemary, Brigitte Young, Rohini Banaji, Gerard Greenfield, Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu, Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller, Greg Ruiter, Huw Beynon & Jose Ramalho, Justin Paulson, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, David Mandel, Michael Goldfield, and Steve Jeffreys.

Contributor Bio(s): Panitch, Leo: -

Leo Panitch is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto and a Fulbright Fellow.

Leys, Colin: -

Colin Leys is professor of political science at York University, Toronto, and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination..

Albo, Greg: -

Greg Albo is a professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.