Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production (Beech Dave)(Paperback)

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of 'fully automated luxury communism' have seen art topple from its privileged place within the left's

Is Capitalism Working?: A Primer for the 21st Century (Field Jacob)(Paperback)

Is Capitalism Working? is a deeply relevant question today, especially to a generation coming of age in a world still experiencing aftershocks from the near-meltdown of the world economy in 2008. Economic theory can be complex, but Jacob Field's well-structured and thought-provoking text lays out

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India (Breman Jan)(Pevná vazba)

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the

Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families (Bonnick Helen)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Appelbaum Robert)(Paperback)

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and

Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries (McKinlay Alan)(Paperback)

Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media. In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each

Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Sunderason Sanjukta)(Paperback)

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India's long

Principles of Global Child Health: Education and Research (Laraque-Arena Danielle)(Paperback)

This indispensable resource provides a cohesive, sustainable, and ethical approach to medical education and research that addresses the health needs of children locally and globally. Areas covered include global health education and research efforts and substantive and sustainable approaches aimed

Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Nanay Bence)(Paperback)

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance, but also everyday experiences such as autumn leaves in the park, or even just the light of the

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Srnicek Nick)(Paperback)

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life

Working Lives - Essays in Canadian Working-Class History (Heron Craig)(Pevná vazba)

Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely

Art, Engagement, Economy: The Working Practice of Caroline Woolard (Phillips Patricia C.)(Paperback)

Pedagogical and participatory art from the coauthor of Making and BeingIn Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard, this acclaimed New York-based artist and educator (born 1984) proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and

Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide (Taliaferro Charles)(Paperback)

Explaining what art is and what's not art. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through

Art Therapy with Transgender and Gender-Expansive Children and Teenagers (Darke Kelly)(Paperback)

An educational and inspirational book that offers practical guidance for art therapists working with transgender and gender-expansive youth and their families. It provides art therapy goals, recommended treatments and coping skills to use with this client group. Each chapter looks at how art

London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew Henry)(Paperback)

An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Praznik Katja)(Pevná vazba)

Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation (Brettell Richard R.)(Paperback)

Richard R. Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as well as lesser-known figures--in relation to expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. Beginning with The

Labour and Industrial Laws (Padhi P.K.)(Paperback / softback)

Expains labour and industrial laws such as the Industrial Disputes Act, the Factories Act, and the Contract Labour Act. While giving a broad perspective of the subject, the text brings out the objectives behind the enactment of every legislation, discusses the relevant case laws and shows how the

Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature (Haque Danielle)(Paperback)

Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of religion and secularism in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values,

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (Adams Zoe)(Paperback)

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law which explains the role of different legal and extra-legal sources in its evolution, including collective bargaining,

Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Hoelscher Jason A.)(Paperback)

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its