Forwarded from Michael Yates

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> 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 <mikey@xxxxxxxx>.  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 happening?neoclassical 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

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