Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This elegant collector's edition presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau's classic philosophical work, The Social Contract, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.
The Social Contract is one of the most influential studies…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
This set re-issues 11 works of the well-known socialist thinker G D H Cole and one volume of collected pamphlets, originally published between 1913 and 1965. A substantial introduction by…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
L. P. Carpenter (City University of New York)
A sensitive analysis of the thought and intellectual development of G. D. H. Cole (1889-1959) the distinguished Labour historian. Cole’s career is traced from his earliest days in the Labour…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
This volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment and the role re-armament in…
Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential figures of the 18th century. His political philosophy has been pointed to as a major contributing factor in causing the…
Originally published in 1762, The Social Contract is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s treatise on how to best organize politics in the face of commercial society. Rousseau writes, Man is born free; and…
Curtis Evans
That British mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (customarily defined as the period between the First and Second World Wars) were not only aesthetically but ideologically conservative has…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
G D H Cole,Margaret Cole
The Social Contract & Discourses: Translated With Introduction By G. D. H. Cole, Edited By Ernest Rhys This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making…
G. D. H Cole
This three-volume set provides a general narrative of the history of the working class movement in Britain in all its main aspects - trade unions, socialism and co-operatives. The historical…
G D H Cole
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one…
G. D. H. Cole
Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversies of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the problems…
Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversities of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the problems…
This title is Cole’s most systematic account of his vision of industrial and political reorganization. It develops the theme of democratic citizenship in relation to industrial society, and provides a…
First published in 1939. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1930s, both in general and in each of the principal industries and…
This brilliant analysis, first published in 1923, predicted the development of shop floor bargaining and explains how attitudes, doubts and fears have remained relatively fixed yet open to various pressures…
First published in 1955, Studies in Class Structure contains six studies in problems of social structure, relating mainly to contemporary British society.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is Volume 3 of the three-volume set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937) . The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
This is Volume 1 of the three-volume set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937) . The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history…
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This is Volume 2 of the three-volume set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937) . The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history…
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence in the first world war…
First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author’s belief that there was a need for…
First published in 1924. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1920s. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history…
First published in 1951. The purpose of this study was to consider the prospects of the British Co-operative movement in all its main aspects and not as a consumers’ movement…
First published in 1925. In studying Robert Owen’s life, this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first phases of the Industrial Revolution crowded as it was with events, changes…
