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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781847927279 | ISBN 10: 1847927270

    Capitalism is dead. The #1 bestselling economist shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.  ‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Everyone should read it. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH  In his boldest and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
    Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745340913 | ISBN 10: 0745340911

    'Work hard, get paid.'   It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.   For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
    Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance - by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241482612 | ISBN 10: 0241482615

    An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'.   Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
    Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto - by Aaron Bastani

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632

    A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.  In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin by Silvia Frederici
    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin - by Silvia Frederici

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637068 | ISBN 10: 1629637068

    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements — all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a v ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine

    £3.50      (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781621065265 | ISBN 10: 162106526x

    When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705756 | ISBN 10: 1784705756

    Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world.  Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
    The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - by George Monbiot

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786632890 | ISBN 10: 1786632896

    Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? by Peter Dauvergne
    Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? - by Peter Dauvergne

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509524013 | ISBN 10: 1509524010

    Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy - by Jonathan Taplin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509847709 | ISBN 10: 1509847707

    LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD   Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
    And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784704117 | ISBN 10: 1784704113

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER � The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe�s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, �the emerging rock st ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
    The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay - by Guy Standing

    £17.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900440 | ISBN 10: 1785900447

    There is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but have constructed the most unfree market system ever. It is corrupt because income is channelled to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
    Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782061 | ISBN 10: 1784782068

    How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
    Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism - by Sven Beckert

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141979984 | ISBN 10: 0141979984

    Winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize Finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature  For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Understanding Class by Erik Olin Wright
    Understanding Class - by Erik Olin Wright

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689455 | ISBN 10: 1781689458

    A leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism.   Few ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
    Capitalism: A Ghost Story - by Arundhati Roy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780944 | ISBN 10: 1784780944

    An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracya nation of 1.2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buddha on Wall Street: What
    The Buddha on Wall Street: What's Wrong with Capitalism and What to Do About it - by Vaddhaka Linn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909314443 | ISBN 10: 1909314447

    After his Enlightenment the Buddha set out to help liberate the individual, and create a society free from suffering. The economic resources now exist to offer a realistic possibility of providing everyone with decent food, shelter, work and leisure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Drop: The Politics of Water by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes
    The Last Drop: The Politics of Water - by Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334912 | ISBN 10: 0745334911

    Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are tes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore
    Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital - by Jason W. Moore

    £19.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689028 | ISBN 10: 1781689024

    The relationship between capital and ecology in the longue dure. 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 todays global ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley
    Drug War Capitalism - by Dawn Paley

    £13.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849351935 | ISBN 10: 1849351937

    The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control. In Drug War Capitalism, Dawn Paley lays bare the mechanisms through which state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
    The New Prophets of Capital - by Nicole Aschoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688106 | ISBN 10: 1781688109

    A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah.   As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has becom ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell
    A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain - by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099578314 | ISBN 10: 009957831x

    Q. Whats worth 2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britains influence industry   The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory its happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism by Colin Cremin
    Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism - by Colin Cremin

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334370 | ISBN 10: 0745334377

    In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our societal relations, weaving deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how it is a system that totalises and which has upend ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj iek
    Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj iek

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241004968 | ISBN 10: 0241004969

    In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.   There is obviously trouble in the global capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody
    The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money - by Dan Briody

    £20.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780471745945 | ISBN 10: 0471745944

    The author of the bestseller The Iron Triangle untangles a web of political back scratching in one of the world's most powerful companies Halliburton-a Texas oil-field company Dick Cheney ran before he became Vice President-has courted controversy f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ripped and Torn: Levi
    Ripped and Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Bue Jean Dream - by Amaranta Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091900847 | ISBN 10: 0091900840

    When Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America - her brief to befriend local teenagers and report back on their lives - she saw it as a means to explore a continent she loved. But as time passed and she witnessed first-hand ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
    The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141011455 | ISBN 10: 0141011459

    Until 2001, Enron could do no wrong. Feared by rivals and worshipped by investors, its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer named Bethany McLean wrote an article entitled 'Is Enron overpriced?' - and the company fell apart. ... more

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