Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage? Level: debutante Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer Global Labour University Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own. Since then, alternative views and schools of economics increasingly became minorities in the discipline and were considered 'heterodox'. 2016 Level: adelantado Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics Jerry Courvisanos, Jamie Doughney, Alex Millmow Routledge The economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. 2013 Level: adelantado The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited hether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. Work Won't Love You Back examines how we all bought into this 'labour of love' myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. 2021 Level: debutante Work Won't Love You Back Sarah Jaffe C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. 2010 Level: adelantado Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution Kolya Abramsky AK Press This edited volume presents a collection of articles that engage with various concepts from Marx’s Capital and Marxian theory in general, from a ‘Southern’ perspective. The book engages with four specific themes: “Reception of Capital in the East; Value, Commodity, Surplus Value and Capitalism; Population and Rent in Capital; and Issues Beyond Capital”. 2019 Level: debutante ‘Capital’ in the East Achin Chakraborty, Anjan Chakrabarti, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Samita Sen Springer Nature Source image GC Videography Fellows Youtube channel David Harvey davidharvey org City University of New York Level: adelantado Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History David Harvey City University of New York In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. 2019 Level: adelantado Making the Modern Slum Sheetal Chhabria University of Washington Press How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets--such as land, intellectual property, natural resources, or digital platforms--is all-important and dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals: rentiers. 2020 Level: debutante Rentier Capitalism Brett Christophers Verso Books Work defines who we are It determines our status and dictates how where and with whom we spend most of our time It mediates our self worth and molds our values But are we hard wired to work as hard as we do Did our Stone Age ancestors also live … 2020 Level: debutante Work James Suzman Bloomsbury Circus Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected?In "Capitalism in the Web of Life", Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. 2015 Level: adelantado Capitalism in the Web of Life Jason W. Moore Verso Has neoliberalism destroyed gender equality Advocate author and broadcaster Beatrix Campbell examines the emergence of a new model of patriarchy and proposes solutions Beatrix Campbell iai Level: debutante End of Equality Beatrix Campbell iai A Theory From bestselling writer David Graeber a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate Slate a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless unfulfilling jobs and their consequences Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world In the spring of 2013 David Graeber asked this question … 2019 Level: debutante Bullshit Jobs David Graeber Simon and Schuster What are the challenges and opportunities for achieving decent work in global supply chains How do transnational corporations and their global supply chains operate How can they be more effectively governed Mark Anner Esther Busser Michael Fichter Tandiwe Gross Frank Hoffer Jenny Holdcroft Praveen Jha Maité Llanos Adam Lee Victor … Level: debutante Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Esther Busser, Michael Fichter, Tandiwe Gross, Frank Hoffer, Jenny Holdcroft, Praveen Jha, Maité Llanos, Adam Lee, Victor Hugo Ricco, Christoph Scherrer Iversity How and by whom are International Labour Standards set? How are they supervised, and how can workers’ organisations use the ILO supervisory mechanisms? What are the key principles of Freedom of Association, the right to strike and Collective Bargaining? Level: debutante International Labour Standards: How to Use Them Beatriz Vacotto, Jeffrey Vogt, Paul Whitehead, Stefanie Lorenzen, Tandiwe Gross, and Maité Llanos Iversity