World without Capitalism?

Christian W. Chun is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday (2015) and The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense (2017).

• List of figuresAcknowledgmentsChapter One: A world without capitalism?Chapter Two: The spectral realities of capitalismChapter Three: What’s in a name: working or ‘middle’ class?Chapter Four: The crucial role of race in American capitalismChapter Five: "Working for the clampdown"Chapter Six: Workplaces, the city, and the worldChapter Seven: The socio-spatialities of capital: urban landscapes and alternative imaginariesChapter Eight: What is to be done?ReferencesIndex

With the vast and often terrible panorama of US capitalism as a backdrop, in this book Christian Chun demonstrates yet again not only his great erudition and insight, but also why he is every good-thinking person’s public revolutionary. Chun deftly unpicks the contradictions of capitalist life and in the everyday experiences of people’s labour under capitalism uncovers a shared vision and humanity that is both counter-hegemonic as well as potentially radically transforming. A work for our times.John P. O’Regan, University College London, UK