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How can we achieve lasting social and political equality for women? Dr. Leda Pérez tackles this thorny question in Searching for Democracy:...
“The general thrust of capitalist policy in this period aims at the intensified imposition of work in response to ongoing struggle against i...
Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices...
It is quite easy to find corruption within nonprofits. This is particularly the case in the subsector of not-for-profits that are incorporat...
In our recent conversation about Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia, the editors Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfried Swenden...
Why have Finland’s biggest multinationals teamed up to create a globally unique analysis hub just to decode the future of China? Meet the an...
Can philanthropy be an anti-racist, feminist, relational, and joyful expression of solidarity? This book argues that it not only can be for...
There is a widespread sense throughout the developed world that progress towards a better society has stalled. Many countries, including the...
In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors...
A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America's franchise economy means for its workers. Walk into a McD...
Chinese investment in the United States has become an increasingly contentious issue that is much more complicated than headlines suggest. I...
Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI? It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, ground...
A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future. Our ec...
What is the future for cities? In Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future (Manchester University Press, 2026) Oli Mould, a Prof...
Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society is the latest book from Dr Andres Saenz De Sicil...
In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma: Co...
What’s going on in the Chinese economy? China reported GDP growth of just 4.3% last quarter. Consumption is sluggish, exports are booming, e...
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978...
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lana Swartz, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-Career at the University of...
Just how much damage is sport doing to the planet? In Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) Toby Miller, Profesor Di...