Beyond Marx : confronting labour-history and the concept of labour with the global labour-relations of the twenty-first century

Publication Data

• Title Beyond Marx : confronting labour-history and the concept of labour with the global labour-relations of the twenty-first century
• Alternative Title Über Marx hinaus. English
• Contributors Marcel van der Linden, Karl Heinz Roth
• Publisher Brill
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Leiden
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth
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 Mayes
Notes on elder-care work and the limits of Marxism / Silvia Federici
Cornelius 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
Index.

Topics

• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Labor :: History
• Labor theory of value

Beyond Marx : confronting labour-history and the concept of labour with the global labour-relations of the twenty-first century. ISBN 9789004231344. Published by Brill in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.