Lexington Books
Pages: 206
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-8775-3 • Hardback • December 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-4985-2563-3 • Paperback • November 2015 • $62.99 • (£48.00)
978-0-7391-8776-0 • eBook • December 2013 • $59.50 • (£46.00)
Shae Garwood is honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia.
Sky Croeser is honorary research associate at Curtin University.
Christalla Yakinthou works with the University of Birmingham's Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security.
Foreword by Mark Barenberg
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Agents and methods of social change in the global economy
Shae Garwood and Sky Croeser
Chapter 2: The Right to organize, living wage, and real change for garment workers
Sarah Adler-Milstein, Jessica Champagne and Theresa Haas
Chapter 3: Waste for Life: poverty-reducing technologies for repurposing waste at the margins
Baillie and Eric Feinblatt
Chapter 4: From toxic to green: turning mountains of e-waste into green jobs
Bharati Chaturvedi
Chapter 5: Social justice and fairness in global food systems
Michael Heasman and Ralph Early
Chapter 6: Challenging work: working conditions in the electronics industry
Marisol Sandoval and Kristina Areskog Bjurling
Chapter 7: Global supply chains – struggle within or against them?
Sanjiv Pandita and Fahmi Panimbang
Chapter 8: Increased visibility for marginalized voices in the production and consumption of First Nations media
Claire Litton-Cohn and Sky Croeser
Chapter 9: Reflections on lessons for social change
Sky Croeser and Shae Garwood
In recent decades it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine even modest changes in the mode of production. The voices in this inspiring volume, of academics and activists engaged in a rich variety of struggles against the primacy of the market, point to the possibility of a world that is not entirely for sale. With stirring examples of determination to contest neoliberal forces that have brought about significant improvements in people’s lives, this collection is a must-read book for those who continue to hope for social change in the global economy.
— Verity Burgmann, Monash University