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Banking Panics of the Gilded AgeThis is the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed for the first time estimates of bank closures and their incidence in each of the five separate banking disturbances. The author also reevaluates the role...
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Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry Volume 6Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control...
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Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's SweatshopsSewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union--all verified...
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The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of DevelopmentHow and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on...
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Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair EconomyYears after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example...
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Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural PoliciesFollowing independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa's "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike....
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Capitalism: The Future of an IllusionVirtually everyone--left, right, and center--believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and...
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The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican RepublicIn The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the adjacent...
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The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Author: Immanuel...
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social JusticeThe U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for...
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Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head HomeNoting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in...
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Uninsured in America, Updated: Life and Death in the Land of OpportunityUninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care....
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The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American DemocracyThe Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law...
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A Mediterranean Society, Volume I: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Economic Foundations VoThis six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded...
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Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to ChuquicamataThis tale of two cities--Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile--traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of...
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Of Rule and Revenue: Volume 13Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.Author: Margaret LeviPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 08/03/1989Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9780520067509About the AuthorMargaret Levi is Professor...
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Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and...
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The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth CenturyFrom the Preface by Bradford Burns: If this essay succeeds, it will open an interpretive window providing a different perspective of Latin America's recent past. At first glance, the view might seem to be of the conventional landscape of modernization, but I hope a...
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Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in IndonesiaAgricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. It principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant technological or...
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The Creative ShopkeeperDespite many predictions that the internet and e-commerce would kill brick-and-mortar, independent retail is far from dead. While big-chain retailers have suffered through lack of originality, new independent retailers are rapidly growing in number, rejuvenating neighborhoods across the world. Flexible, pop-up shops are becoming...
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