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The tribal knot : a memoir of family, community, and a century of change / by McClanahan, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)189954;
Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us - our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In the Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwestern farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them through poverty, war, political upheavals, illness and accident, filicide and suicide, economic depressions, personal crises, and global disasters. Like the practitioners of Victorian "hair art" who wove strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past. Back cover
Subjects: McClanahan, Rebecca;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Can democracy survive global capitalism? / by Kuttner, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)153485;
Includes bibliographical references and index."'Democracies govern nations, while global capitalism runs the world. Robert Kuttner provides a clear-eyed, intellectually riveting account of how the inevitable tensions between the two have fueled neofascist nationalism here and abroad, and why the response must be a new progressive populism rooted in democracy and social justice. Timely and compelling.'--Robert B. Reich. In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record profits. Downward mobility has produced political backlash. What is going on? [This book] argues that neither trade nor immigration nor technological change is responsible for the harm to workers' prospects. According to Robert Kuttner, global capitalism is to blame. By limiting workers' rights, liberating bankers, allowing corporations to evade taxation, and preventing nations from ensuring economic security, raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy. The resurgence of predatory capitalism was not inevitable. After the Great Depression, the U.S. government harnessed capitalism to democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, labor unions were legalized and capital regulated. Well into the 1950s and '60s, the Western world combined a thriving economy with a secure and growing middle class. Beginning in the 1970s, as deregulated capitalism regained the upper hand, elites began to dominate politics once again; policy reversals followed. The inequality and instability that ensued would eventually, in 2016, cause disillusioned voters to support far-right faux populism. Is today's poisonous alliance of reckless finance and ultra-nationalism inevitable? Or can we find the political will to make capitalism serve democracy, and not the other way around? Charting a plan for bold action based on political precedent, [this book] is essential reading for anyone eager to reverse the decline of democracy in the West."--Dust jacket.A song of angry men -- A vulnerable miracle -- The rise and fall of democratic globalism -- The liberation of finance -- The global assault on labor -- Europe's broken social contract -- The disgrace of the center left -- Trading away a decent economy -- Taxes and the corporate state -- Governing global capitalism -- Liberalism, populism, fascism -- The road from here.
Subjects: Economic policy.; Democracy.; Corporate state.; Taxation.; Globalization.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Ginseng roots : a memoir / by Thompson, Craig,1975-author,artist.(CARDINAL)668273;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-443)."From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a long-awaited return to the graphic memoir form. Ginseng Roots follows Craig Thompson and his siblings-who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour-and interweaves this lost youth with the three-hundred-year history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, to northeast China, Ginseng Roots charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world"--
Subjects: Autobiographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Thompson, Craig, 1975-; Cartoonists; Farm life; Ginseng; Working class; Medicine, Chinese;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 22
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Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / by Tomich, Dale W.,1946-author.(CARDINAL)853199; Funes Monzote, Reinaldo,1969-author.(CARDINAL)853197; Marquese, Rafael de Bivar,1972-author.(CARDINAL)853198; Venegas Fornias, Carlos,1946-author.(CARDINAL)853196;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : cotton, sugar, coffee, and the making of nineteenth-century slave plantations -- Part i. Making landscapes : new Atlantic commodity frontiers -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton frontier -- The Cuban sugar frontier -- The Brazilian coffee frontier -- Part II. Spatial economies and plantation landscapes -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton plantation -- The Cuban ingenio -- The Brazilian coffee fazenda -- Conclusion : geometries of exploitation."Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Plantations; Plantations; Plantations; Plantations; Plantations; Plantations; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A world transformed : slavery in the Americas and the origins of global power / by Walvin, James,author.(CARDINAL)127003;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-366) and index."A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be fully understood only by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the latest modern scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything from the capitalist economy, labor, and the environment, to social culture and ideas of family, beauty, and taste. This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labor of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force, catalyzing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous trading systems with profound global consequences. The labor and products of enslaved people changed the consumption habits of millions--in India and Asia, Europe and Africa, in colonized and Indigenous American societies. Across time, slavery shaped many of the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare and costly luxuries, some of which might seem, at first glance, utterly removed from the horrific reality of slavery. A World Transformed traces the global impacts of slavery over centuries, far beyond legal or historical endpoints, confirming that the world created by slave labor lives on today"--
Subjects: Slave trade; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery; Transatlantic slave trade.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South / by Merritt, Keri Leigh,1980-author.(CARDINAL)416027;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : The second degree of slavery -- The Southern origins of the Homestead Act -- The demoralization of labor -- Masterless (and militant) white workers -- Everyday life : material realities -- Literacy, education, and disfranchisement -- Vagrancy, alcohol, and crime -- Poverty and punishment -- Race, Republicans, and vigilante violence -- Class crisis and the Civil War -- Conclusion : A duel emancipation -- Appendix : Numbers, percentages, and the census."Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton--and thus, slaves--in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete--for jobs or living wages--with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war"--
Subjects: Labor; Land tenure; Poor white people; Poor white people; Slavery; Slavery; Social conflict;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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State devolution in America : implications for a diverse society / by Staeheli, Lynn A.(CARDINAL)220562; Kodras, Janet E.(CARDINAL)216412; Flint, Colin,1965-(CARDINAL)215921; Association of American Geographers.Meeting(1996 :Charlotte, N.C.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.Fair or foul? : Remaking agricultural policy for the 21st century / Brian Page -- Back to the future in labor relations : from the New Deal to Newt's deal / Andrew Herod -- Responsibility, regulation, and retrenchment : the end of welfare? / Meghan Cope -- Transnationalism, nationalism, and international migration : the changing role and relevance of the state / Richard Wright -- Education policy and the 104th congress / Fred M. Shelley -- Environmental policy and government restructuring / Marvin Waterstone -- Conclusion : Regional collective memories and the ideology of state restructuring / Colin Flint.State restructuring, political opportunism, and capital mobility / Robert W. Lake -- Economic globalization and income inequality in the United States / John O'Loughlin -- Globalization and social restructuring of the American population : geographies of exclusion and vulnerability / Janet E. Kodras -- Citizenship and the search for community / Lynn A. Staeheli -- Restructuring the state : devolution, privatization, and the geographic redistribution of power and capacity in governance / Janet E. Kodras -- How federal cutbacks affect the charitable sector / Julian Wolpert -- State restructuring and the importance of "Rights-Talk" / Don Mitchell.
Subjects: Decentralization in government; Local government; State-local relations; Federal government;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The subprimes : a novel / by Greenfeld, Karl Taro,1964-author.(CARDINAL)382351;
"In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes. Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they've walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Fugitives who must keep moving to avoid arrest, they wander the globally-warmed American wasteland searching for day labor and a place to park their battered SUVs for the night"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Dystopias.; Humorous fiction.; Poor; Credit scoring systems;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Peace on our terms : the global battle for women's rights after the First World War / by Siegel, Mona L.,author.(CARDINAL)830860;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African American civil-rights advocates worked in tandem to advance women's rights. Despite significant resistance, these pathbreaking women would leave their mark on emerging democratic constitutions and new institutions of global governance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women's activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women's rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come"--
Subjects: Women; Women social reformers; Women's rights; Human rights; Peace movements; Women.; Womyn.; Human rights.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Capital in the twenty-first century / by Piketty, Thomas,1971-author.(CARDINAL)636283; Goldhammer, Arthur,translator.(CARDINAL)636265;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Income and Capital. Income and output ; Growth: illusions and realities. -- The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century. -- The Structure of Inequality. Inequality and concentration: preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century. -- Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality, the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth, today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Labor economics.; Wealth.;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 37
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