How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day

by Paul Cockshott

Book Overview

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor

Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583677771
• ISBN13: 9781583677773
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"