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An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace
democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What
happens to a society-and a planet-when capitalism outgrows
democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are
longstanding, and they have been laid bare by the social effects of
COVID-19. The narrative of "essential workers" has provided thin
cover for the fact that society's lowest paid and least empowered
continue to work risky jobs that keep our capitalism humming.
Democracy has been subjugated by the demands of capitalism. For
many, work has become unfair. In Democratize Work, essays from a
dozen social scientists-all women-articulate the perils and
frustrations of our collective moment, but they also see the
current crisis as an opportunity for renewal and transformation.
Amid mounting inequalities tied to race, gender, and class-and with
huge implications for the ecological fate of the planet-the authors
detail how adjustments in how we organize work can lead to sweeping
reconciliation. By treating workers as citizens, treating work as
something other than an asset, and treating the planet as something
to be cared for, a better way is attainable. Building on
cross-disciplinary research, Democratize Work is both a rallying
cry and an architecture for a sustainable economy that fits the
democratic project of our societies.
Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust
Research The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy
understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy
with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered
countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann
Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it
themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were
steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it
was either kill or die. Chapoutot, one of France's leading
historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images
that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and
that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no
official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear
narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals,
apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot
explores. The story went like this: In the ancient world, the
Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But
since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values-Jewish
values in particular-had alienated Germany from itself and from all
that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to
the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and
procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and
wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and
insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook
that would cost millions their lives.
The right to divorce is a symbol of individual liberty and gender
equality under the law, but in practice it is anything but
equitable. Family Law in Action reveals the persistent class and
gender inequalities embedded in the process of separation and its
aftermath in Quebec and France. Drawing on empirical research
conducted on their respective court and welfare systems, Emilie
Biland analyzes how men and women in both places encounter the law
and its representatives in ways that affect their personal and
professional lives. This rigorous but compassionate study
encourages governments to make good on the emancipatory promise
enshrined in divorce law.
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The Kites (Paperback)
Romain Gary; Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
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A New York Times Notable Book 2018 'A rebel French writer ... a
brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most
original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from
beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity
of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender
and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the
art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the
Hedgehog A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old
and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate
kites. One day, sitting in a strawberry field, Ludo meets the
beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's
lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to
return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of
World War 2. After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are
separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways
of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to
France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her
unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day,
passing on messages for the French Resistance - thinking always of
Lila.
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