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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem with Work; Chapter 1: Mapping the Work Ethic; Chapter 2: Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work; Chapter 3: Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income; Chapter 4: ''Hours for What We Will'': Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours; Chapter 5: The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope; Epilogue: A Life beyond Work; Notes; References; Index

Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley. Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers in the early 1790s. Another purpose of this diplomacy, urged by Indian leaders and embraced by Spanish officials, was the formation of a regional Indian confederation that would deter American expansion into Indian lands. Weeks shows how diplomatic relations were established and maintained in the Gulf South betwee

In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Karl Marx anticipated this type of financial collapse, arguing that it was derivative from the 'fetishism of commodities' inherent in the capitalist mode of production. This book substantiates the foregoing claim by a journey from Marx's analysis of commodities to the capitalist crisis of the twenty-first century.