{"product_id":"capitalism-on-edge-how-fighting-precarity-can-achieve-radical-change-without-crisis-or-utopia-9780231195379","title":"Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism's terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In \u003cem\u003eCapitalism on Edge\u003c\/em\u003e, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzmanova's new critique of capitalism focuses on the competitive pursuit of profit rather than on forms of ownership and patterns of wealth distribution. She contends that neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form--precarity capitalism--marked by the emergence of a precarious multitude. Widespread economic insecurity ails the 99 percent across differences in income, education, and professional occupation; it is the underlying cause of such diverse hardships as work-related stress and chronic unemployment. In response, Azmanova calls for forging a broad alliance of strange bedfellows whose discontent would challenge not only capitalism's unfair outcomes but also the drive for profit at its core. To achieve this synthesis, progressive forces need to go beyond the old ideological certitudes of, on the left, fighting inequality and, on the right, increasing competition. Azmanova details reforms that would enable a dramatic transformation of the current system without a revolutionary break. An iconoclastic critique of left orthodoxy, \u003cem\u003eCapitalism on Edge\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the intellectual and political impasses of our time to discern a new path of emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albena Azmanova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions in Critical Theory #69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231195379","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711283105929,"sku":"9780231195379","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_3dee70c5-4b02-4cff-91af-8dd5709ffd4a.jpg?v=1719566153","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/capitalism-on-edge-how-fighting-precarity-can-achieve-radical-change-without-crisis-or-utopia-9780231195379","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}