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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 First Impressions and Second Thoughts -- Plan of the Book -- 2 The Social Reproduction of Poverty -- Conventional and Critical Problematics -- Variable Environments -- The Culture of Poverty and Variable Environments -- 3 Potter Addition -- Grand Prairie -- The Ecological Setting of Community -- Surplus Populations -- The Material Infrastructure of Community -- The Material Culture of Potter Addition -- The Junkyards -- Betty's Market -- The Question of Class -- 4 The World of Work -- Disorderly Careers in Potter Addition -- The Jack-of-All-Trades -- Lower-Class Work Values -- 5 Labor, Leisure, and Ideology -- Leisure Time Farming -- The Car Cult -- The Subjective Reproduction of Male Morale -- 6 Saving and Spending -- Variable Environments and the Economic Conservatism of the Poor -- Variable Environments and "Nigger-Rich" Life-Styles -- Mining the Interstices -- Alternative Economies -- 7 The Uxoricentric Family -- The Parsonsian Model -- The Jurai Default of the Husband -- The Husband as Affine -- Protracted Intimacies: Mothers and Daughters -- 8 The Antinomies of Family Life -- Generational Compression -- The Dialectics of Uxoricentric Family Life -- 9 The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship -- The Structure of the Personal Kindred -- Kinship as Ideology -- Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship Systems -- Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship in Clay County -- Open and Closed Households in Potter Addition -- The Merging of Households -- The Iron Cage of Reciprocity -- 10 The Moral Foundation of Lower-Class Kinship -- The Axiom of Kinship Amity -- Merged and Amalgamated Identities -- Affinal Struggles -- 11 The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups -- Potter Addition's Descent Groups

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? These are questions taken up in this text.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalisation came from and how it proliferated on the world stage.

Section I The Right to the City. 1. The Right to the City -- 2. The Urban Roots of Capitalist Crises -- 3. The Creation of the Urban Commons -- 4. The Art of Rent ---- Section II Rebel Cities. 5. Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle -- 6. London 2011: Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets -- 7.#OWS: The Party of Wall Street Meets Its Nemesis.

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey lays out their key arguments. In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the architecture of capital according to Marx, placing his observations in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. He considers the degree to which technological, economic and industrial change during the last 150 years means Marx's analysis and its application may need to be modified

Introduction -- The analytical framework -- The transition to the digital paradigm : analogies and functional equivalence -- Aspects of internet governance -- The property problem -- Recorded law : the twilight of precedent in the digital age -- Digital information : the nature of the document and e-discovery -- Evidence, trials, courts and technology -- Social media -- Information persistence, privacy and the right to be forgotten -- Reputational harms -- Conclusion