Capitalist Collective Action
Subtitle: Competition, Cooperation and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780521028820
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Sociology; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; USA; Industries - General; Sociology - General; Bituminous coal industry--United States--Hist; Bituminous coal industry--United States--History; Business & Economics / Industries; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Sociology - General
First sentence: In this chapter I argue that capitalist relations of production, besides producing conflicts of interest between workers and capitalists, also produce conflicts among capitalists; and that these latter conflicts, which take the form of economic competition, generate a distinct set of collective action problems for competing firms.