Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: California: The Quicksilver State -- 1. Imperialism and California's Quicksilver -- 2. Money and Powerin the California Mercury Landscape -- 3. A Geography of Mercury Mining in California -- 4. Race, Space, and Power at New Almaden -- 5....

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's...

For half a century Mother Jones took up the workingman's cause without question and fought his battles without compromise. Dale Fether­ling's biography for the first time gives her full story, with elo­quence and sympathetic understanding

Introduction: Forces of production and the climate crisis -- Development of the productive forces and critiques of Marx -- Marxism and forces of production : towards an ecological conception -- Marx and the critique of political economy and ecology -- Ecological Marxism(s) and the productive...