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1 online resource (743 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART 1. THE CRISIS. From The Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Lehman -- Interview With Noam Chomsky -- Predatory Lending and the Twenty-First Century Recession -- PART 2. EFFECTS. The End of Meaning, The Meaning of End -- A Failure of Imagination -- Mechanisms of Power -- No Mancession -- Interview With Miguel Ángel Fernández -- Institutionalizing Crisis -- The Puerto Rican Experiment -- PART 3. THE RESPONSE OF THE DISPOSSESSED. Infiltrating the Mythology of American Empire -- Undoing the Reasonable Middle -- Argentina's Movements Against Austerity and the politics of space -- Austerity and Unions -- No Exit -- Circumscribed by Conditions They Did Not Create -- Solidarity Networks as a Means of Building Resistance to Austerity -- PART 4. THE RULING CLASS RESPONSE. Militant Reformism and the Prospects for Reforming Capitalism -- States of Emergency -- Policing Dissent and Copping a Profit -- Dimensions of Crisis in Greece -- Insurgency Control -- Nationalism's Chilling Effect On Anti-Austerity Movements -- Marikana -- PART 5. EDUCATION AND THE STUDENT RESPONSE. Revolutionary Terrains and Higher Education in the US -- Interview With Québécois Student Organizer Jamie Burnett -- Necessary Steps in Tough Economic Times -- Interview With Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés -- Paths Written in Concrete -- The End of the World as We Know It? |
| Summary |
"The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving together a global network of stories and analyses, editor Deric Shannon creates an outline of what real and effective opposition to the forces that are destroying our lives and our planet might look like. From solidarity networks to revolutionary unionism, student strikes, and ever-new forms of state and corporate control, The End of the World as We Know It? is a guide to the future of anticapitalist struggle"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Capitalism.
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Capitalism. |
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Financial crises.
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Financial crises. |
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Recessions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. |
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Recessions. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. |
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Business & Economics. |
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Economic Theory. |
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Finanzkrise. |
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Kapitalismus. |
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Politischer Widerstand. |
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Welt. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shannon, Deric, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: End of the world as we know it? Edinburgh, Scotland : Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2014 9781849351867 (DLC) 2013952048 (OCoLC)881024684 |
| ISBN |
9781849351874 (electronic book) |
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1849351872 (electronic book) |
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9781849351867 (paper) |
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1849351864 (paper) |
| Music No. |
EB00651925 Recorded Books |
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