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Capitalism has proven much more resilient than Marx anticipated, and the working class has, until now, hardly lived up to his hopes. The Marxian concept of class rests on exclusion. Only the ‘pure’ doubly-free wage-workers are able to create value; from a strategic perspective, all other parts of the world’s working populations are secondary. But global labour history suggests, that slaves and other unfree workers are an essential component of the capitalist economy. What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? In this volume twenty-two authors offer their thoughts on this question, both from a historical and theoretical perspective. Contributors include: Riccardo Bellofiore, Sergio Bologna, C. George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Niklas Frykman, Ferruccio Gambino, Detlef Hartmann, Max Henninger, Thomas Kuczynski, Marcel van der Linden, Peter Linebaugh, Ahlrich Meyer, Maria Mies, Jean-Louis Prat, Marcus Rediker, Karl Heinz Roth, Devi Sacchetto, Subir Sinha, Massimiliano Tomba, Carlo Vercellone, Peter Way, Steve Wright.

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Author:   Marcel van der Linden ,  Karl Heinz Roth
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   56
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.962kg
ISBN:  

9789004231344

ISBN 10:   900423134
Pages:   534
Publication Date:   25 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction, Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth PART I The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Seamen on Late Eighteenth-Century European Warships, Niklas Frykman Class-Warfare: Primitive Accumulation, Military Revolution and the British War-Worker, Peter Way The Shifting Maelstrom: From Plantations to Assembly-Lines, Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto Workerism: An Inside View. From the Mass-Worker to Self-Employed Labour, Sergio Bologna Workers and Working Classes in Contemporary India: A Note on Analytic Frames and Political Formations, Subir Sinha Revolutionary Subjectivity, the Limit to Capital, Detlef Hartmann Housewifisation – Globalisation – Subsistence-Perspective, Maria Mies Notes on Elder-Care Work and the Limits of Marxism, Silvia Federici PART II Castoriadis’s Break With Marxism, Jean-Louis Prat A Theory of Defeat. Marx and the Evidence of the Nineteenth Century, Ahlrich Meyer Poverty, Labour, Development: Towards a Critique of Marx’s Conceptualisations, Max Henninger What is Sold on the Labour-Market?, Thomas Kuczynski In And For Itself: Freedom. On the Historical Tendency of a Renewed Critique of the Political Economy of Labour, Sebastian Gerhardt The ‘Fragment on Machines’ and the Grundrisse: The Workerist Reading in Question, Massimiliano Tomba and Ricardo Bellofiore Revolution from Above? Money and Class-Composition in Italian Operaismo, Steve Wright Marxism after the Death of Gold, C. George Caffentzis From the Mass-Worker to Cognitive Labour: Historical and Theoretical Considerations, Carlo Vercellone Results and Prospects, Karl Heinz Roth and Marcel van der Linden Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History, Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the editorial board of the Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). Karl Heinz Roth (1942) is an historian and medical doctor. He has been a co-founder of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. His numerous publications deal with labour, business, economic, social, and science history.

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