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Creditocracy / Andrew Ross

Public ISBD Title : Creditocracy : And the Case for Debt Refusal Material Type: printed text Authors: Andrew Ross, Author Publisher: OR Books Publication Date: 2013 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-939293-39-8 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Alternative Economies Economics Abstract: It seems like pretty much everybody – homeowners, students, those who are ill and without health insurance, and, of course, credit card holders – is up to their neck in debt that can never be repaid. 77% of US households are seriously indebted and one in seven Americans has been pursued by debt collectors. The major banks are bigger and more profitable than before the 2008 crash, and legislators are all but powerless to bring them to heel. In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy – where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and history shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage for the bulk of the population. Creditocracy : And the Case for Debt Refusal [printed text] / Andrew Ross, Author . - [S.l.] : OR Books, 2013. ISBN : 978-1-939293-39-8 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Alternative Economies Economics Abstract: It seems like pretty much everybody – homeowners, students, those who are ill and without health insurance, and, of course, credit card holders – is up to their neck in debt that can never be repaid. 77% of US households are seriously indebted and one in seven Americans has been pursued by debt collectors. The major banks are bigger and more profitable than before the 2008 crash, and legislators are all but powerless to bring them to heel. In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy – where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and history shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage for the bulk of the population.

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ECO ROS 2014	ECO ROS 2014	Livre/Book	Sustainable Concordia	Economics (SC)	Available

No Sweat / Andrew Ross

Public ISBD Title : No Sweat : Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers Material Type: printed text Authors: Andrew Ross, Author Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 1997 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-85984-172-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Economics Labour, Poverty and Class No Sweat : Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers [printed text] / Andrew Ross, Author . - [S.l.] : Verso, 1997. ISBN : 978-1-85984-172-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Economics Labour, Poverty and Class

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WOR ROS 1997 MISSING	WOR ROS 1997 MISSING	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Work, Poverty & Class	Available

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel / Andrew Ross

Public ISBD Title : Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel Material Type: printed text Authors: Andrew Ross, Author Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2019 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7887-3026-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Keywords: resource  mining  labour  apartheid  palestine  occupation Abstract: This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some of the best-quality limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except one of their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabricating, and dressing is the Occupied Territories’ largest private employer and generator of revenue, and supplies the construction industry in Israel, along with other countries in the region and overseas. Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of historic Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build the state of Israel—in the process, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For more than a century, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in a new light, this book, largely based on field interviews in the region, asks how this record of labor and achievement can and should be recognized. Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel [printed text] / Andrew Ross, Author . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2019. ISBN : 978-1-7887-3026-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Keywords: resource  mining  labour  apartheid  palestine  occupation Abstract: This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some of the best-quality limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except one of their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabricating, and dressing is the Occupied Territories’ largest private employer and generator of revenue, and supplies the construction industry in Israel, along with other countries in the region and overseas. Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of historic Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build the state of Israel—in the process, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For more than a century, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in a new light, this book, largely based on field interviews in the region, asks how this record of labor and achievement can and should be recognized.

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300 ROS 2019	300 ROS 2019	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Colonialism, Imperialism, and World Politics (QM)	Available