{"product_id":"plunder-of-the-commons-a-manifesto-for-sharing-public-wealth-9780141990620","title":"Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of our common rights, recognized as far back as the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our public wealth. Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common - a brilliant new synthesis that crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1% in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our justice system, schools, newspapers and even the air we breathe. \u003ci\u003ePlunder of the Commons \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of remembering, guarding and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash inequality and soothe our current political instability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Standing\u003c\/b\u003e has held professorships at the University of Bath and at SOAS, was program director at the International Labour Organisation and has advised the UN, World Bank and governments around the world on labor and social policy. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Precariat: The New Dangerous Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBasic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pelican Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51805516366098,"sku":"9780141990620","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab9b8abb-149c-4fb5-8a70-75ebb2a900da.jpg?v=1765973297","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/plunder-of-the-commons-a-manifesto-for-sharing-public-wealth-9780141990620","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}