In search of international political economy a review essay

John Edelman Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977).

Stephen D. Krasner, Defending the National Interest. Raw Materials, Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978).

Charles‐Albert Michalet, Le capitalisme mondial (Paris: Presses universi‐taires de France, 1976).     

Governing at the frontier of the European commission: The case of seconded national officials

Political Integration and Disintegration in the British Isles. By A. H. Birch. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. Pp. 184. £6.50 hardback, £2.95 paperback.

Divided Loyalties. British Regional Assertion and European Integration Edited by M. Kolinsky. Manchester University Press, 1978. Pp. 224. £9.50

The Break up of Britain: Crises and Neo‐Nationalism. By Tom Nairn. London, New Left Books, 1977. Pp. 318. £750.

The British Right: Conservative and Right Wing Politics in Britain. Edited by Neill Nugent and Roger King, Westmead : Saxon House, 1977, Pp. vi + 230 £7.50     

Reviews and notes

Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers’ Movement since 1945, by Joanne Barkan. New York: Praeger, 1984.

Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline. Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan. (N.Y.: Methuen, 1982. Pp. viii + 258.)

Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment. Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 219.)

The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closing. Staughton Lynd. (San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1982. Pp. xx + 244.)

Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy. Frank Fischer and Carmen Sirianni, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

The Politics of Terrorism. Michael Stohl, ed. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1983. 473 pp.

The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression. Michael Stohl and George Lopez, eds. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. 202 pp.     

On protectionism

Whose Congress?

John C. Berg, UNEQUAL STRUGGLE: CLASS, GENDER, RACE AND POWER IN THE U.S. CONGRESS (Boulder, CO: Westview Press (Harper Collins), 1994).

Karl Mannheim's Liberalism

David Kettler and Volker Meja, KARL MANNHEIM AND THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISM: THE SECRET OF THESE NEW TIMES (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995).

Red Not Dead

Constance Coiner, BETTER RED: THE WRITING AND RESISTANCE OF TILLIE OLSEN AND MERIDEL LE SUEUR, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

For further reading

Mendel LeSueur. Corn Village. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Stanton and Lee, 1970.

The Girl. Cambridge, Mass.: West End Press, 1978.

Tillie Olsen. Tell Me a Riddle. New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989.

Silences. New York: Dell, 1978.

My Mother The Teacher

Ruth Jacknow Markowitz, MY DAUGHTER, THE TEACHER: JEWISH TEACHERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993).

A Personal Response     

Reviews & notes

Pierre Rosanvallon L'âge de l'autogestion (Paris, 1976, Editions du Seuil).

Daniel Zwerdling, Democracy at Work: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation and Self‐Management Experiments in the United States and Europe (Washington, D.C.: Daniel Zwerdling, 1978). Distributed by Association for Self‐Management, c/o 1414 Spring Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 ($5.50 for individuals/$10.50 for institutions).

Benjamin I. Page, Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections: Rational Man and Electoral Democracy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 336 pp. $17.50).

Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974)

Giovanni Arrighi, “International Corporations, Labor Aristocracies and Economic Development in Tropical Africa,” in Arrighi and Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (New York: Monthly Review, 1973).

Henry Landsberger, “The Labor Elite: Is it Revolutionary?,” in Lipset and Solari (eds.), Elites in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Jürgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 239. $5.95 paper).

Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 252. $4.95 paper).

Leszek Kolakowski's long‐awaited survey of Marxism [Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, 3 volumes, translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla, Oxford University Press, 1978].     

Literary methodology

Texts reviewed:

P. N. Medvedev/M. M. Bakhtin (1978) The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship; translated by A. J. Wehrle. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Pierre Macherey (1978) A Theory of Literary Production; translated by Geoffrey Wall. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.     

Reviews and notes

Zillah R. Eisenstein (ed.), Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1970. 394 pp. $5.95 paper).

The Lavender and Red Book: A Gay Liberation/Socialist Anthology (Lavender and Red Union, Los Angeles; 1976).

Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She‐Male. (New York: Beacon Press, 1979. 220 pp. $12.95 cloth).

Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1977) first published in 1976.

Bertell Oilman, Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich. (Boston: South End Press, 1979. 228 pp. $5.50 paper, $15.00 cloth).     

Reviews

THE ROOTS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD LA TIN AMERICA

G. Pope Atkins, Latin America in the International Political System, second edition. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. 421.)

Lars Schoultz: National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 377.)

Kevin J. Middlebrook and Carlos Rico, eds.: The United States and Latin America in the 1980s (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. Pp. 648. Second printing 1988.)

GENEROSITY AND SELF‐INTEREST

Teresa Odendahl: Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self‐interest among the Philanthropic Elite. (New York: Basic Books, 1990. Pp. 298.)

HOBBES AMONG THE PATRIARCHS

Arnold A. Rogow: Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reaction. (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1986. Pp. 287.)

STRACHEY AND MACLEAN: BRITISH ALTERNA TIVES

Michael Newman: John Strachey. (Manchester: Manchester Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)

B. J. Ripley and J. McHugh: John Maclean. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)     

Schismatics and Sceptics

Santiago Carrillo: ’Eurocommunisme’ et Etat. Flammarion, Paris, 1977. 252 pp. n.p. [English translation published by Lawrence and Wishart, 1977. n.p.].

Fernando Claudin: L'eurocommunisme. Francois Maspero, Paris, 1977. 151 pp. n.p.

Annie Kriegel: Un autre communisme? Hachette, Paris. 1977. 183 pp. n.p.

G. R. Urban, ed. Euro‐communism. Its roots and future in Italy and elsewhere. Maurice Temple Smith, London. 1978. 287 pp. £7.00.

Hermann Vogt. Eurokommunismus. Ein Reader. Berlin Verlag, Berlin. 1978. 224 pp. n.p.     

The political economy of class conflict

Texts reviewed:

C. Crouch (1977) Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis, Heinemann Educational Books.

F. Hirsch and J. H. Goldthorpe (eds) (1978) The Political Economy of Inflation, Martin Robertson.     

Book reviews

Deane Curtin, Chinnagounders’ Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Jim Yong Kim, et ah, ed., Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.

Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, et al., eds., State of the World 1998. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Margit Mayer and John Ely, eds., The German Greens. Paradox Between Movement and Party. Translated by Michael Schatzschneider. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.     

LA's the place: The Urban character and significance of Los Angeles 1

Michael Dear, H. Eric Shockman, and Greg Hise, eds., Rethinking Los Angeles. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.

William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books, 1997)

Roger Keil, Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Struggles. Chichester, UK: 1998.

Allen J. Scott and Edward J. Soja, eds., The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.     

Resources: Left Listservs and Websites

Gerald Meyer, VITO MARCANTONIO: RADICAL POLITICIAN 1902–1954 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)

Charney, George, A Long Journey (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968).

Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).

Lader, Lawrence. Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1946 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979).

Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

Riesman, David. Faces in the Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Rolle, Andrew. The Italian Americans: Troubled Roots. (New York: The Free Press, 1980).

Sasuly, Richard. “Vito Marcantonio: The People's Politician,” in American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, ed. Harvey Goldberg (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957), pp. 115–59.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966).

Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

Keep Them in the Dark: Australian Government Strategy to Weaken Activism against Australia's new Nuclear Reactor

Martin O'Connor, editor: Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. New York: Guilford Publications, 1994.

Kate Soper: What is Nature? Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Jim Schwab: Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue‐Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Michael E. Zimmerman: Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Michael Hough: Cities and Natural Process. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum: GET A LIFE! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it. Get A Life Publishing, Toronto, 1995.

Sara Berry: No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.     

Book notes

Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar: Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood . Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi: Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing . Toronto: Garamond Press, 1993.

Joan Nordquist: Multinational Corporations and the Environment: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1994, 68p.     

Book reviews

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Michael Goldman, ed., Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.     

Resistance,compliance, adulation: Life in the third Reich and afterwards

Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer (eds.), Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933–1990. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii+357pp. Notes. Ind. £12.75 (pbk.).

Martin Kitchen, Nazi Germany at War. London: Longman, 1994. 329pp. Bibl. Ind. £13.99 (pbk).

Tim Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, ed. Jane Caplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x+361 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.95 (pbk).     

ibn Kenyatta,poems for an imperiled world

Scott Lash and John Urry, THE END OF ORGANIZED CAPITALISM (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987)

Michael E. Porter, THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS (New York: The Free Press, 1990)

Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy‐Leboyer and Helga Nussbaum, eds., MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)     

Book reviews

Michael Parenti. Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 208 pp. Endnotes; index.

Vicente Navarro. Dangerous to Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. Pp. 127. $10.00 paper.

Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City, (1993), edited by Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling, Urban Affairs Annual Review, v. 41, Newbury Park, Ca.: SAGE.

Howard L. Reiter. Parties and Elections in Corporate America. New York: Longman, 1993. 315p. $26.95 paper.

Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left, edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.