Extremely detailed, well-researched book which goes into capitalism in an in-depth manner with some interesting examples.

I picked this book because I wanted to learn a bit more about capitalism & its impact. I have very high-level knowledge & confess I am a bit ignorant of its true effect on society. I’m not sure how much more enlightened I feel as this book went into even more detail than I was expecting & in some places I got a little lost.

There are a lot of real-world examples used to explain points which is good & helps make it relatable. A lot of these examples I’d not heard of and are extremely detailed, especially around the financial crises. This book is definitely good but I feel like it is aimed at people with more knowledge of the topic than I have. I’d also advise taking your time with it, it’s not something you’d read in one or even a few sittings to properly digest the contents.

Thank you to the author, publishers & NetGalley for access to this arc in return for an honest review.

This is a great resource for those wanting to understand why trade unions are so important especially with how the past year has gone with workers from Harper Collins and the film writers' in America going on strike. It distills down the points for why workers having more power in the workplace is critical for all of us as a society very well. What keeping me from giving it the full five stars is I wish the solution part/future steps would have been elaborated on more in depth. When I pick up books like these I'm always looking for ways that I and the people around me can take and implement in our lives as we move forward. And that was lacking. Overall it's an excellent read and I highly recommend it even if you're just slightly curious.

The author takes the view that large companies and governments conspire to do bad things. Boeing makes planes that fall out of the sky, banks run up huge losses and get bailed out . Union Carbide poisoned Bhopal, and so on. . Trade unions and workers coops are her answer to the woes of the world.
Doubters of her Utopian ideas are deemed to be as imaginative as medievalists who could not see beyond the divine right of kings.
Followers of Jeremy Corbyn will love this tome but others might feel like the recipient of a rant by a born again evangelical. The writing is awful. Rambling sentences are followed by agitporoppy stuff like: “And if you’re not already in one - join a union” Some of it sounds as if she dictated it wandering round her park “ Answering one question relating to the Third World we get “ One of the first answers to this question comes from (you guessed it ) Karl Marx,
The central question of how citizens can be protected by big business in cahoots with big government is worth examination but this book adds little. Lots of cut and paste from other works but no worked out solutions It lists many grievances but no realistic solutions.

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