Publications
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A People's History of Modern Europe
(2016)
From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the Twenty-first Century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history ...
Working the Phones
(2016-11-20)
*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017*
Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial ...
Sans Papiers
(2014)
Undocumented migration is a huge global phenomenon, yet little is known about the reality of life for those involved. Sans Papiers combines a contemporary account of the theoretical and policy debates with an in-depth ...
Hope Lies in the Proles
(2018-03-20)
George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own ...
As If Already Free
(2023)
A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. This collection of new writing brings together ...
The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State
(2011)
In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neoliberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjorn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across ...
Beyond Money
(2022)
What would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social inequality today, ...
The Limits to Citizen Power
(2016)
Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, ...
Right Across the World
(2021)
In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world’s population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today’s autocrats are, at first ...
Gramsci on Tahrir
(2016-01-20)
Coming in the wake of intense political and academic debate on the nature and development of the Arab Uprisings, Gramsci on Tahrir zeroes in on the complex dynamic of Egypt's revolution and counter-revolution. It shows how ...