The labour debate
Subtitle: an investigation into the theory and reality of capitalist work
By: edited by Ana C. Dinerstein, Michael Neary.
Contributors: Dinerstein, Ana C.; Neary, Mike, 1956-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Labor theory of value.; Marxian economics.; Labor economics.; Capitalism.
Description: "In a world dominated by capitalist work (labour), working for a wage is the central unavoidable reality of modern social life, and yet, the category of labour remains underdeveloped in social sciences. While waged labour in all its forms, including unemployment and mass poverty, has now invaded all aspects of social life, labour appears to have disappeared as a practice that constitutes modern society. This book revitalises labour as the fundamental constitutive principle of the social world, through a radical reinterpretation of Marx's social theory. The editors give an account of what they consider to be the main critical and practical problems and possibilities confronting the concept and reality of labour in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 What Labour Debate?; title: 1.1 Class and Classification: Against, In and Beyond Labour; title: John Holloway; title: 1.2 Class Struggle and the Working Class: The Problem of Commodity; title: Fetishism; title: Simon Clarke; title: 1.3 The Narrowing of Marxism: A Comment on Simon Clarke's Comments; title: John Holloway; title: 2 Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation: On Class and Constitution; title: Werner Bonefeld; title: 3 Labour and Subjectivity: Rethinking the Limits of Working Class Consciousness; title: Graham Taylor; title: 4 Hayek, Bentham and the Global Work Machine: The Emergence of the Fractal-Panopticon; title: Massimo De Angelis; title: 5 Work is Still the Central Issue! New Words for New Worlds; title: Harry Cleaver; title: 6 Labour Moves: A Critique of the Concept of Social Movement Unionism; title: Michael Neary; title: 7 Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power!; title: Glenn Rikowski; title: 8 Regaining Materiality: Unemployment and the Invisible Subjectivity of Labour; title: Ana C. Dinerstein; title: 9 Anti-Value-in-Motion: Labour, Real Subsumption and the Struggles against Capitalism; title: Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary.