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It utilises a Marxist approach, not only to challenge the claims made by apologists for 'actually existing globalisation', but to explain, contextualise and problematise the rise of anti-globalisation politics. Central to the work is a critique of globalisation theory, neo-liberalism and the third way; an examination of the role of the state as an agent of globalisation, particularly the hegemonic US state; a theorisation of the nature of uneven development in the global order; and an examination of the political implications of these issues for progressive alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation.\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRay Kiely, Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology, University of Warwick, is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He has published widely in the fields of globalisation and development, including Sociology and Development (UCL Press, 1995) and The Ends of Globalisation: US Hegemony and the Globalist Project (forthcoming, 2005).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689662820445,"sku":"9781608460229","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781608460229-f_medium-5c58a01e7169fca562d179f905adaec8.jpg?v=1669135173"},{"product_id":"reform-revolution-and-direct-action-amongst-british-miners-the-struggle-for-the-charter-in-1919","title":"Reform, Revolution and Direct Action Amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfields, waged against mine-owners, the government, and trade union leaders. Led by revolutionaries, this mass movement also offered a glimpse of an alternative road to socialism.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This is a very long overdue book. It reveals a period of the most extraordinary militancy by the largest group of organised workers in Britain, a phenomenon which has largely been ignored. In 1919, as a revolutionary wave swept Europe, mass strikes gripped British coalfields waged against the coal owners, the government and the miners’ own national and regional union officials.” \u003cem\u003eSocialist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartyn Ives\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D (Econ) in the Department of Government, Manchester University (1994). 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He is author of books such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Political Economy of Communication\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Sage, 2009).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristian Fuchs\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor at the University of Westminster and editor of the open access online journal \u003cem\u003etripleC: Communication, Capitalism \u0026amp; Critique\u003c\/em\u003e. He is author of works such as \u003cem\u003eCulture and Economy in the Age of Social Media or Digital Labour and Karl Marx\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2015).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689664393309,"sku":"9781608467082","price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781608467082-f_medium-1134d919aaea7072dfb37bbff3aa3673.jpg?v=1669135126"},{"product_id":"the-thatcherite-offensive-a-neo-poulantzasian-analysis","title":"The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-poulantzasian Analysis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing upon Greek state-theorist Nicos Poulantzas, Gallas challenges both mainstream and critical accounts of British politics in the 1980s and 90s. He shows that Thatcherism’s success and novelty, indeed its unity as a political project, lay in the fact that the Thatcher governments profoundly shifted class relations in Britain in favor of capital and restructured the institutions underpinning class domination.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"[T]he conceptual framework Gallas develops for the analysis of articulated levels and fields of governance and political strategy in relation to different phases of class struggle under capitalism is extraordinarily powerful....[This] is no less than a cognitive map of the key political processes under conditions of capitalist democracy. As such, Gallas has, in my view, made a hugely important contribution to (neo)Poulantzasian theory…Overall, The Thatcherite Offensive is a highly impressive book. I certainly have no hesitation in recommending it to all scholars interested in the politics and political economy of Thatcherism, the development of neoliberalism in Britain more widely and indeed to all those interested in the field of (neo)Poulantzasian theory.\" Ed Rooksby \u003cem\u003eCapital and Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Thatcherite Offensive\u003c\/em\u003e speaks directly to current expressions of authoritarian statism, and their contradictory role in advancing the neoliberal project. 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Exemplary in its clarity, this approach will also inspire other work in conjunctural analysis and struggles over class hegemony and domination.\" Bob Jessop, \u003cem\u003eLancaster University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A must read for everyone who believes that there is such a thing as society.\" Andreas Bieler, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Alexander Gallas's book is a highly innovative account of Thatcherism as a class political regime, which reveals, with great clarity, the value added of a political analysis based on Nicos Poulantzas's state theory.\" John Kannankulam, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Marburg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Alexander Gallas’ study of Margaret Thatcher’s eleven years of government – readable, engaged and provocative – has the parallel aim of boosting Poulantzas’ conceptual tools and their value for understanding states, classes and populist authoritarianism.” \u003cem\u003eLogos \u003c\/em\u003ejournal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Gallas’ intervention [is] both a relevant and crucial contribution to understanding the contemporary political economy.” \u003cem\u003eProgress in Political Economy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Thatcherite Offensive\u003c\/em\u003e by Alexander Gallas is an important new contribution from an old perspective, the work of Nicos Poulantzas, towards an analysis of an era most of us would prefer to forget, Thatcherism.” Mark Perryman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Corbyn Effect\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Gallas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, PhD (2010), Lancaster University, is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Kassel. 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