Common notions jun 2026 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel about family, scarcity, and what it means to sell out as the world ends.The world hasn't quite ended, but it's getting there. The West has dried up, the Delaware-Catskill watershed on the east coast has been contaminated, and water scarcity has driven most of the population to the shores of the Great Lakes. Here, real estate interests run rampant and the possibility of snagging a house close enough to fresh water has realigned global financial interests. And, as always, the working class is being pushed aside to make way for white and wealthy newcomers.Amidst the chaos, three brothers try to navigate this swiftly changing landscape. As one seeks influence in politics, the younger two are drawn into the dangerous, shadowy world of private security and militias. In the precarious new world that these three brothers traverse, J. M. Holmes offers a grim yet familiar future in which scarcity fuels resentment, resentment sparks extremism, and extremism ignites around the racial tensions of our present and uncertain moment.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Astech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewedpolitical and technological assault on labor. But it still takes workersto make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on therise. The rank and file are coming from the precarious new "gig jobs"and drawing strength from a new class of worker who does the jobs thatcomputers still cannot. Previously thought to be "unorganizable," theseworkers are part of a North American collective movement that isreaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action with new forms oforganizing, new ways of association, and new ways of thinking andrecombining labor organizing and research.Tocapture this growing class consciousness as it happens, the CapacitorCollective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platformworkers who are also organizers committed to connecting old motivationsand new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition toimagine new ways to produce knowledge with and for workers.…