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Answers to the Labour Question
Disruption
The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War Michael De Groot
Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880-1945 Gary Mucciaroni
In Disruption, Michael De Groot arguesrgues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. “Through multi-archival and multilingual analysis, Disruption delivers a cogent and forceful argument on the transformative implications of globalization for the end of the Cold War.” – Daniel J. Sargent, University of California, Berkeley CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on newspaper accounts, parliamentary debates, and personal memoirs, among other sources, Answers to the Labour Question aims to understand the variety of state responses to industrial unrest and institutional change beyond the domain of industrial relations. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Series: Political Development: Comparative Perspectives February 2024 1 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables 322pp 9781487551513 £33.00 Paperback now £23.10
March 2024 10 graphs 324pp 9781501774119 £48.00 Hardback now £33.60
Selling the Future
Unexpected Revolutionaries
Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance Ryan Moran
How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy Manuela Moschella
Explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eye-opening and insightful, Unexpected Revolutionaries is necessary reading for discussions on the future of the neoliberal macroeconomic regime, the democratic oversight of monetary policymaking, and the role that central banks canor cannotplay in our domestic economies. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cornell Studies in Money May 2024 11 graphs 204pp 9781501774850 £38.00 Hardback now £26.60
January 2024 14 b&w halftones, 1 map 276pp 9781501773297 £52.00 Hardback now £36.40
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