To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now. We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together.
Jan Lucassen presents a truly inclusive history of humanity's endless labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen examines the ways in which labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; and the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure.
The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police, able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order, but with its very fabrication, especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage labour. By situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the heart of the politics of security, the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime. The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider administrative powers of the state, and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of economic relations.