Books published by Haymarket Books

An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

A brilliant and compelling application of the analytic tools of Critical Theory to NASCAR and Motor Cycle rallies.

This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

A fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental reason.

The past, present and future of Puritanism as a defining feature of the American social character

An invaluable guide for scholars and researchers looking to develop and practically apply critical social theory

In their stirring analysis Perez-Bustillo and Hernandez Mares explore the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights.

This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory.

With invaluable insight and poignant analysis, Blunden traces the hidden origins of three paradigms of decision-making: Counsel, Majority, and Consensus.

Tom Brass takes the lessons drawn by Development Studies and deftly applies them to metropolitan capitalist nations.

Powerful, provocative narratives of people surviving the devastating affects of life in long term incarceration.

An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world's most important socialist journals

From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity.

In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-called "migrant workers" or "peasant workers" from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class.

An illuminating examination of the role that the metaphors 'war of position' and 'war of maneuver' play in Gramsci's theory.

Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of Africa rising did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.

A theoretically rigorous examination of the claims of dependency theory in a world increasingly dominated by regional superpowers.

A thought-provoking survey of the lessons criminologists should learn from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

A persuasive and thorough response to those fashionable social theorists who challenge both the explanatory and emancipatory power of 'class.'

An engaging examination of the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American thinkers of the 20th-century

A compelling case study of the impacts of Neoliberalism on Argentina's auto industry.

Internationally renowned Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents an innovative new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism.

Examining how Marxism has been received and developed beyond Europe, this work asserts the continuing global relevance of tradition.

An extraordinary collection of pieces from the three plus decade career of one of Britain's most important Marxist art-historians.

A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

An ambitious intervention, asserting the importance of a Marxist interpretation of literary style and moving towards a new Marxist poetics.

An innovative new interpretation of Gramsci's thought and his place in the Marxist tradition.

This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci's legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.