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1st Edition

Public Libraries and Marxism

By Joe Pateman, John Pateman Copyright 2021
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provide a critical examination of the history, theory and practice of libraries in the Soviet Union and North Korea.... Read more
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Marxist Interpretation of the Public Library; Chapter 3: V. I. Lenin and Soviet Socialist Public Library System; Chapter 4: Kim Il-Sung and Socialist Public Libraries in North Korea; Chapter 5: The Vanguard Library; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Index.

Biography

Joe Pateman is a doctoral candidate in politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. Joe’s research interests include Marxism-Leninism, democratic theory and the political economy of race. Joe is the co-author of Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries: Marx, Maslow, and Management (2019, Routledge).

John Pateman is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Librarian of Thunder Bay Public Library in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was previously Head of Libraries in Hackney, Merton and Lincolnshire in the UK. He is the joint author of Public Libraries and Social Justice (2010, Routledge), Developing Community Led Public Libraries (2013, Routledge) and Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries: Marx, Maslow, and Management (2019, Routledge).

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