Capital & Class articles

Recent articles from Capital & Class

The Alienated Heart: Hochschild's 'emotional labour' thesis and the anticapitalist politics of alienation.(Arlie Russell Hochschild)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2009... Introduction: A very political theory It is difficult to overestimate the enduring influence of the emotional labour thesis found in Arlie Russell Hochschild's seminal work, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (2003 [1983]). Debates on emotional labour continue to turn...

Working in the tracks of state socialism.
June 22, 2009... One of the most insistent laments of my teacher, anthropologist Jaap van Velsen, was aimed at Marxists who damned capitalism with utopian socialism. This, he averred, was a false comparison, comparing the reality of one society with an idealisation of another. He demanded the comparison of...

Why do institutions matter? Global competitiveness and the politics of policies in Latin America.
June 22, 2009... Over the past decade, a broad consensus has emerged that 'institutions matter'. (Fukuyama, 2007: XV) There is an emergent consensus in development studies and policy analysis--a 'new institutionalism'. (1) Its adherents and proponents reject the market fundamentalism of the 1980s and...

Trade unions, civil society organisations and health reforms.
June 22, 2009... Public healthcare systems have become increasingly commodified in the past fifteen years, with the drivers for this commodification coming from several directions. National governments in high-income countries with aging populations are concerned about the increasing demand for healthcare...

'O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark': The many deaths of Antonio Gramsci.(Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Richard Day Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements Pluto Press, 2005, 254 pp. ISBN 189-707103-5 pbk 17 [pounds sterling] The two purposes of Richard Day's Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements are declared in its title:...