Not for sale; decommodifying public life.

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Not for sale; decommodifying public life.

Ed. by Gordon Laxer and Dennis Soron.

Broadview Press

2006

280 pages

$27.95

Paperback

HD3850

As Laxer (sociology, U. of Alberta, Canada) and Soron (sociology, Brock

U., Canada) describe in their introduction, the debut of trendy "oxygen bars" in major metropolitan areas of the developed world are emblematic of the commodification of the commons that is part and parcel of "neoliberal globalism." They present 12 papers that both explore the dynamics of commodification of labor, services, human body parts, and water and profile democratic struggles against commodification around the world.

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