Book cover of Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation by Amanda Ciafone
Business & Money

Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world’s most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations—liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal—of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […Learn More]

Book cover of Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism
Politics & Government

Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism

Many of today’s insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partitioning of workplaces and residential communities, and the expropriation and underdevelopment of Black populations at home and abroad. Scholars and activists increasingly regard these practices as essential technologies of capital accumulation, evidence that capitalist societies past and present enshrine racial inequality as a matter of course. […Learn More]