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Death of the breadwinner: how the male breadwinner/female homemaker model collapsed

The change in economic conditions that turned women from an intrafamilial reserve army of labour into a permanent active service between postwar settlement and neoliberalism.
Ganjapreneurs and the Caucasian Cannabis Cartel

Business is now booming in the marijuana industry, despite it still being controlled at the federal level as a Schedule 1 drug.
Pharmanomics: a Letter from the Editor

One of our October Verso Book Club selections.
Review of Chantal Jaquet, Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction
Tokens: a Letter from the Editor

One of our October Verso Book Club selections.
Marc Augé, anthropologist of contemporary ‘non-places’

French anthropologist Marc Augé died on 24 July, leaving behind an important legacy.
English Cricket is racist, sexist and elitist – to change it must learn from the grassroots game

As the recently published Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket report confirmed, cricket in Britain is a deeply elitist, racist and sexist sport, dominated by a white, male establishment linked by the old school tie. Here, Sam Berkson powerfully analyses the history of the sport and says that the only way to save it is to learn from the sports' grassroots.
Cover Stories: Crooked Plow

Brazilian illustrator and visual artist, Paola Saliby, talks us through the design process for Crooked Plow.
Choose your side. Choose your weapons

Published 20 years after the 1984-85 miners' strike that it portrays, David Peace's kaleidoscopic novel GB84 depicted the affective realities of the struggle as it was fought by pickets, policemen. Alexander Curtis asks what the literature can teach us about the past and present of class war.
The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Climate, Environment, and Ecology: Verso Student Reading

Featuring Andreas Malm, Ann Pettifor, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
Political Theory: Verso Student Reading

Featuring Walter Rodney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, and Benedict Anderson. Up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.