… London was home to the gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the social ills of the day, including criminal activity, to gin drinking. It is seen that the passage of the Gin Acts were …

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Author: Elise Skinner

Tags: consumerism, crime, drugs, economy, law, London, police, politics, United Kingdom, women

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… St. Vincent (based on fieldwork conducted in November 2006). St. Vincent and the Windward Islands are small island economies that have been dependent on bananas as their main export crop since the middle of the 20th century when they started producing bananas for export to Britain under a preferential import system for colonies. This system of preferential access continued into the 1990s …

Comment by Jack Reynolds: … King Edwards VI school in Morpeth, …

… the political life of our time” (Anderson, 3). The existence of that nation, according to those who belong to it, is unquestionable. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. But what is a nation exactly? This paper will to touch on some theoretical aspects of the …

… security to pension-contributors who find themselves incapable of work due to chronic health conditions. Rising CPPD caseloads during the 1980s and early 1990s coupled with growing debt aversion in Canada led to predictions that the pension well would soon run dry. Such fears lent credence to substantial pension reforms in 1998 - and cuts to CPPD benefits. The eligibility criteria are …

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… changing to the great extent that we all read about? Alternatively, is it fair to say that industry monopolies and forms of cooption are persisting as they always have? These seem to be the two poles in an ongoing debate. My presentation, drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, will suggest that the transformations currently taking place in the recording industry …

Tags: capital, capitalism, copyright, Deleuze, Internet, music, piracy, record labels, technology

… “terrorism” has displaced the focus on the “gang epidemic” that prevailed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed “the world’s most dangerous gang” by the FBI. Thus far, the few existing investigations of MS-13, mostly in …

… over the Bourgeoisie Moment of Expropriation: Who is the Neo-Expropriater?
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point within the social sciences. …

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… out. The video, which goes through a brief history of monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial system at large. Moving from a monetary system based on barter to one based on debt, the documentary highlights the increasing risk and perhaps inevitability of a major economic crisis. Of course, we’ve …

Comment by Sean Fisher: … but do you think that small …

Tags: banking, capitalism, credit, documentary, economy, finance, law, risk, trade

… the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of capital accumulation?
This paper will concern itself with the discourse surrounding the ‘construction of consent’ of the neoliberal project. Who were the major actors involved? What methods did they have at their disposal to promote neoliberalism? What methods were used, how were …

Author: David Cavett-Goodwin

… from the depths of the worldwide economic storm, a wave of worker protests against factory closures is grabbing both public imagination and media attention.
Their story begins with a sign hanging from a factory gate: OUT OF BUSINESS. LOOK FOR WORK ELSEWHERE. Or else it begins with a letter in the mailbox: WILL NOT PAY FINAL MONTH’S SALARY OR PROCESS REQUESTS FOR SEVERANCE PACKAGES.
Or …

Tags: Argentina, capital, community, democracy, liberalization, privatization, protest, resistance

… unclean water. “Power, poverty and inequality” are root causes to lack of clean water. ( UNDP’s Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis ) Although 70% of the earth is made up of water, only 2.5% is fresh water. Less than 1% of the earth’s water is renewable and ready for human consumption. ( Water Facts ) The world’s clean water supply is also decreasing …

… the global financial markets have revived interest in the political economic analysis of Karl Marx.  Sales of Marx’s opus Capital - which English media insists on calling by its untranslated German title, Das Kapital - have reportedly skyrocketed.  The UK Times published a lengthy commentary asking, “ did he get it right? “  This turn to Marx makes sense, as he is the original …

Tags: autonomy, banking, capital, capitalism, crisis, finance, history, industry, marx, materialism, production

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Tags: art, consumption, environment, painting, Spain