Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World

by R.T. Naylor

Book Overview

A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly." Taking the reader inside today's luxury trades, R.T. Naylor visits gold mines spewing arsenic and diamond fields spreading human misery, knocks on the doors of purveyors of luxury seafood as the oceans empty, samples wares...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773537716
• ISBN13: 9780773537712
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"