Book by:
Jamie Gough,
London: Continuum, 2003

Review by:
Michal Kohout
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
California State University, San Bernardino

In 2005 I was in Mexico City at the International Critical Geography Group conference listening to David Harvey and Don Mitchell calling on geographers to produce solid empirical research, which would demonstrate the evermore evident contradictions of capitalism. This call is more pressing today in light of the current meltdown of the US economy, rapidly rising energy prices, commodity policies leading to global food shortages, and the intense pressure placed on middle and working classes squeezed by work insecurity, decreasing purchasing power, and eroding social security. This dire economic reality, which faces many of us, demands exploration, explanation, and action. According to Jamie Gough, the workplace is a good place to begin understanding the oppressive nature of capitalism, and organizing to resist it.