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Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka
The Politics of Unpaid Labour

The Politics of Unpaid Labour introduces the theory of the politics of unpaid labour to advance understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work.

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Hillary Taylor
Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England

Hillary Taylor investigates the relationship between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750. Drawing on a large array of sources, Taylor considers the limits that class po…

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The Social Acceptance of Inequality

The Social Acceptance of Inequality examines the primary logics people use in support of economic inequalities: market/economic, moral, cultural/institutional, and group/ethnic logics. With contributors f…

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Richard W. Miller
The Ethics of Social Democracy

Many people in modern democracies support capitalism and multi-party representative government, with civil and political liberties protected by their country's constitution. They also support political me…

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Vandana Mahalwar
Access to Knowledge in the Developing World

Worldwide, a copyright maximalist approach exacerbates socio-economic inequalities and the selective mobility of knowledge to only those who can afford to pay high prices. Structured in a distributive jus…

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Decarbonising and Decolonising Economics

This book examines the relationship between climate change and colonisation within the global economy, showing how imperialism has enabled the exploitation of resources for the benefit of the Global North…

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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities …

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Tabassum "Ruhi" Khan
Downton Abbey

This book examines Downton Abbey's dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privilege in narrative structuring and to understand audiences' uncritical acceptance of …

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Barbara Prainsack
States of Solidarity

States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society makes the urgent case that solidarity is not a relic of the past but a foundational pillar for building just, democratic, and sustainable futures. While contem…

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Saul Newman, Tihomir Topuzovski
Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices

Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violen…

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Simon Sneddon
Food, Environmental Degradation and Injustices

What if the global trade in key food commodities suddenly ceased?This book takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the environmental, ethical, and social justice issues embedded in our food s…

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Prakash Kumar
A History of India's Green Revolution

In the mid-1960s, India's 'green revolution' saw the embrace of more productive agricultural practices and high yielding variety seeds, bringing the country out of food scarcity. Although lauded as a succ…

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Maurice S. Lee
Herman Melville

Very Short Introductions

Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tr…

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Alexander Reisenbichler
Through the Roof

Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Through the Roof examines the crucial role of the state in shaping the…

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Ernest Lim
Social Enterprises in Asia

Social enterprises are regarded as a vital solution to the pressing problem of socio-economic inequality and play a crucial role in the delivery of public goods and services. Ernest Lim argues that social…

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Lane Kenworthy
Is Inequality the Problem?

A data-rich analysis that will reshape our understanding of how rising income inequality has actually affected societies in the industrialized world.Increasing economic inequality is now one of the most s…

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Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume One

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically based analysis helps to b…

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Walter Scheidel
The Great Leveler

The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, Princeton Classics

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge…

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Sandy Baum, Michael Mcpherson
Can College Level the Playing Field?

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one's background or up…

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David Dickinson
South Africa's Constitution and the Law of the Township

How are residents of South Africa's townships responding to socio-economic inequality and a pervasive sense that the country's democratic transition has not delivered on its constitutional promises of soc…

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