Customer Review: Kim Moody's "Workers in a Lean World" is a scholarly but highly readable critique of the contemporary labor movement and its struggle with capital. The author discusses numerous instances from around the world where employees have resisted management to support his contention that today's workers... more info
Customer Review: Charles Rutheiser has added an impressive new addition to the literature of urban anthropology. In this, his latest offering, he chronicles Atlanta's urban redevelopment for the 1996 Summer Olympics. Like a hacksaw, Rutheiser sheers away at the Olympic hype, leaving only the truth of a "imagineered"... more info
Customer Review: There is something peculiarly ahistorical about this history of Marxism in the USA. Buhle's brand of Marxism operates in a historical vacuum where external events are rarely if ever glimpsed. Thus, Marxism's record in America becomes little more than a series of rather inexlicable failures. Names,... more info
Customer Review: If ever there were a journalist who cannot be trusted (Matt Drudge aside perhaps), it is Cockburn.
Cockburn's criticism of Reagan are by and large on the mark. But Reagan has been analyzed and critiqued by far more able critics with far greater credibility. Cockburn, a supposed "radical" and a... more info
Customer Review: I read this book six years ago so I don't remember the details, but I couldn't believe it hadn't been reviewed yet. This is one of the best of a rare genre: historical / intellectual reportage. Part journalist, part professor, part papparazi, Wiener takes his formidable intellect out of the confines... more info
Customer Review: Sin-tillating! Chip Rhodes serves up his idle marxist speculations sensually, leaving the reader gasping for air and asking for more. When I got done reading this cultural studies texxxt, I was hot, bothered, sticky, and covered with hair clippings (because I had been rolling around naked on the... more info