Jeremy Seabrook0.0 Labour in bangladesh flows like its rivers in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in china and 52 cents in india can be had for a song in bangladesh 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country?s foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments through primark, walmart, benetton, gap. In elegiac prose, jeremy seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how bengal and lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of lancashire forced into labour settlements. In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the british textile industry coincided with bangladesh becoming one of the world?s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn?t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.
Mel Evans0.0 As major oil companies face continual public backlash, many have found it helpful to engage in “art washing”—donating large sums to cultural institutions to shore up their good name. But what effect does this influx of oil money have on these institutions? Artwash explores the relationship between funding and the production of the arts, with particular focus on the role of big oil companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell.
Reflecting on the role and function of art galleries, Artwash considers how the association with oil money might impede these institutions in their cultural endeavors. Outside the gallery space, Mel Evans examines how corporate sponsorship of the arts can obscure the strategies of corporate executives to maintain brand identity and promote their public image through cultural philanthropy. Ultimately, Evans sounds a note of hope, presenting ways artists themselves have challenged the ethics of contemporary art galleries and examining how cultural institutions might change.
Дэйв Смит, Phil Chamberlain0.0 Blacklisted tells the explosive story of the illegal strategies used by transnational construction companies to deny union activists work.
Rhian E. Jones0.0 The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat. The story is remembered in vivid and compelling images: attacks on tollgates and other symbols of perceived injustice by farmers and workers, outlandishly dressed in bonnets and petticoats and led by the iconic anonymous figure of Rebecca herself. The events form a core part of historical study and remembrance in Wales, and frequently appear in broader work on British radicalism and Victorian protest movements. This book draws on cultural history, gender studies and symbolic anthropology to present fresh and alternative arguments on the meaning of Rebeccaite costume and ritual; the significance of the feminine in protest; the links between protest and popular culture; the use of Rebecca’s image in Victorian press and political discourse; and the ways in which the events and the image of Rebecca herself were integrated into politics, culture and popular memory in Wales and beyond. All these aspects repay greater consideration than they have yet been accorded, and highlight the relevance of Rebeccaism to British and European popular protest – up to and including the present day.
Кейт Эванс4.4 “Utterly brilliant” – Steve Bell, Guardian
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life—her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art.
Always opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed.
In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
Катрин Марсал3.6 Экономисты изучают скрытые законы, по которым работает рынок, пытаются вывести мир из кризиса, но не знают ответа на простой вопрос: откуда у нас на столе берется ужин? Основоположник современной экономической теории Адам Смит говорил о разделении труда, невидимой руке рынка, спросе и предложении, но забывал о собственной маме, которая заботилась о его еде каждый вечер. До сих пор в экономике доминирует мужской взгляд и не учитывается женский домашний труд, который хоть и не оплачивается, но играет огромную роль. Именно поэтому большинство экономических моделей содержат существенную погрешность. В своей книге Катрин Марсал рассказывает о главных ошибках мужчин-экономистов, о явном и скрытом влиянии женщин на экономику. Эта книга заставляет вас по новому взглянуть на известные экономические кейсы, принимая во внимание не только личную выгоду, жадность и страх, но и такие факторы, как справедливость, доверие и равноправие.
