Verso: 737 books
Beauty and the Inferno
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah
Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 exposé of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was...
Work
The Last 1,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history
Say the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries,...
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation
The US Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the “Regulation School” of heterodox economics, it was received as the boldest book in its field...
The Production of Money
How to Break the Power of Bankers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must,...
Age Shock
How Finance is Failing Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated...
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Political Economy Of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly...
by Danny Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.
But...
Fictitious Capital
How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How finance is a mechanism of social and political domination
The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque...
The Passion of Bradley Manning
The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous “Collateral Murder” gunsight video. He was an intelligence analyst in the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division,...
Cities of Power
The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Why are cities centers of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics
In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, showing how they have been shaped by...
The Balfour Declaration
Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine
On 2 November 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared it was in favour of “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish...
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
Last Futures
Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?
In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future,...
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions...