Capitalist Humanitarianism

"Hulsether combines reportage, ethnographic research, personal narrative, and social theory to look at the ways in which the 21st-century global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it. . . . [A] stance of constant resistance to an unjust system, even in the seeming absence of alternatives, is what Hulsether-who is a union activist as well as a teacher and scholar-calls us to take on. . . . Hulsether's book models this approach beautifully, urging us to "write a history of the impossible" in which 'survival is not the end.'" - Jeannine Marie Pitas (Christian Century) "Shifting between ethnography and history, between global systems and their material impact, [Capitalist Humanitarianism] shows how easily leftist critiques are coopted to allow well-meaning elites to feel good about themselves even as they facilitate the economic exploitation that lies at the heart of our global order." - Tisa Wenger (Reviews in American History) "Capitalist Humanitarianism is a fundamental book to understand how capitalism weaponises leftist critiques, especially in its neoliberal phase. Critiques are mobilised as new business opportunities rather than breaking with the system. As expected, these new strategies do not result in ending oppression or exploitation, but simply in reshaping capitalist discourses around its practices." - Carolina Flores Gusmao (Bulletin of Latin American Research)