[lbo-talk] new Yates book

[Doug Henwood]

>From: "MICHAEL YATES" <mikedjyates at msn.com>
>Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 12:37:04 -0700
>
>My new book, "Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global 
>Economy" will be published at the end of this month by Monthly 
>Review Press.  The table of contents and an excerpt can be seen at 
>the Monthly Review website at 
><<http://www/monthlyreview.org>http://www/monthlyreview.org> The 
>price of the book is $16.95, and I believe that you can get a 20 
>percent discount if you order online.  I also have about 40 
>single-spaced pages of lecture notes available to accompany the 
>book.  The notes are available for a very reasonable fee.  If you 
>are interested, email me at <<mailto:mikey at pitt.edu>mikey at pitt.edu>. 
>You can request an examination or review copy from Monthly Review by 
>fax at (212) 727-3676.
>
>The book provides ample evidence of growing inequality and misery 
>around the world, with explicit reference to employment and 
>unemployment worldwide.  In addition, the book compares two 
>theoretical explanations for what is happeningöneoclassical and 
>Marxist.  The theoretical chapters are both exceptionally clear and 
>wide-ranging.  The final two chapters lay out capitalism's many 
>contradictions and a variety of social movements which have used 
>these contradictions to bring about progressive social change. 
>These social movements range from rank-and-file union struggles in 
>the United States to grassroots movements among the poor in Brazil 
>and South Africa to revolutionary movements in Colombia and Nepal.
>
>"Naming the System" is geared toward students, labor activists, and 
>those involved in various anti-globalization struggles.  It would 
>make a good supplementary text for introductory economics course or 
>a basic textbook for labor studies courses, study groups, and the 
>like. I have used the manuscript for the book in several classes (at 
>the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Cornell) with very 
>good results.
>
>I am currently living in Portland, Oregon.  I am available to speak 
>at venues in the Northwest, as well as in most other parts of the 
>country this summer and fall.  I normally only require 
>transportation costs and a place to stay.
>
>
>Michael Yates