In Working Lives, Linda McDowell draws together over one hundred oral histories that she has collected in the course of various research projects since 1990s, to tell a sweeping story about women who have migrated to Britain from 1945-2007 to work in paid employment.

Temporary Work sheds intense beams of analytical light on the role of agencies, and of temporary work, both in the production of precarious employment and in the continuing, deepening and uneven connections between that precariousness and unfree labour relations. Temporary Work adopts a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach, combining insights from the fields of law, labour studies, feminist political economy and economic geography.

This is not a book that simply rides the wave of popularity that studies of finance have been enjoying due to the recent global financial crisis. Of course the book does carry the nasty taste of the past five years’ crisis. This, however, has inspired the author to produce a convincing and well-researched discussion of the process of financialization that integrates, but also transcends, many of the ongoing debates among students of finance.

Katherine Gibson, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy speak to Jane M. Jacobs about their forthcoming book, "Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide For Transforming Our Communities"

Marieke de Goede has written an interesting and informative book about the practices and politics of the pursuit of monies with alleged terrorist connections, particularly insofar as this pursuit has been conducted in the years since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 2001. She shows that since 2001, the “money trails” of suspected terrorist activity have become a key Western security issue; to thwart terrorism, it has increasingly been seen as essential to stem the flows of money that fund it.