Capital & Class articles from June 2002

Capital & Class archives from June 2002

The labor theory of value and the strategic role of alienation.
June 22, 2002... In order to avoid reifying Marx's social theory, it is important to focus on the social relations that Marx's analytical categories denote. By focusing on value formation as the process of reproducing social control, the imposition of...

Are things really getting better? The labour market experience of black and female youth (1) at the start of the century.
June 22, 2002... Introduction The education and job chances of young people have been issues of crucial concern to successive British governments because, in the final decades of the last century, youth unemployment rates persisted at levels of over double...

Managers and managerialism in the post-privatised utilities: 'Throwing the baby out with the bath-water'.
June 22, 2002... Introduction The concern of labour process theorists has been with the changing nature of managerial control and the ways in which the dynamics of the contradiction underpinning the waged labour relationship is played out between labour...

Neo-liberalism and labour within the context of an 'emerging market' economy -- Turkey.
June 22, 2002... Introduction: the promises of neo-liberalism In recent decades, free marketeers have conducted a worldwide campaign against state interventions in economic affairs. In this process, commentators such as Beckler (1982) and Piatier (1984),...

European integration: the market, the political and class (1).
June 22, 2002... Introduction Western-European integration is without doubt one of the most important developments that emerged from the killing-fields of world war II. European integration is, on the whole, embraced as a resolution to Europe's troubled...

Fascism's Return, Scandal, Revision, and Ideology since 1980s. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Andrew McCulloch Richard J. Golsan (ed.) University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1998, pp. 330 ISBN 0-832-70720-2 (pbk) $25.00 The book's title in parts misleading. Most of contributions in this edited collection...

The Legacy of Ernest Mandel. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Gilbert Achcar (ed.) Verso, 2000 ISBN 1-85984-703-X o30.00 This is a timely collection, of articles examining a wide range of Mandel's prolific output. There are three main areas covered by the contributors, each of which I will...

The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring Under False Pretences? (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Colin Hay Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp.xiii+242 ISBN 0-7190-5482-6 (pbk) ISBN 0-7190-5481-8 (hbk) The blurb on the back of this book describes it as 'the most theoretically informed and conceptualized...

Feindanalyse, Uber die Deutschen. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Herbert Marcuse zu Klampen Verlag, Luneburg, 1998, pp. 148 ISBN: 3-924245-68-1, DM 24 (appr. [pounds sterling]8) This is the first edition of previously unpublished essays by Herbert Marcuse. The essays were written between 1939...

Theories of European Integration. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Ben Rosamond Macmillan, 2000, pp. 256 ISBN 0-333-6471-3 [pounds sterling]13.99 Rosamond sets out to provide a meticulous analysis and interpretation of the wealth of theoretical work in European integration that has grown up...

Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Michael Sprinkler(ed) London and New York: Verso, 1999 ISBN 1-85984-208-9 (pbk) [pounds sterling]15.00 ISBN 1-85984-709-9 (hbk) [pounds sterling]40.00 Any review of Ghostly Demarcations would necessarily have to be a reading...

Late Victorian Holocausts. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Mike Davies Verso, 2001, pp. 464 + x ISBN 1-85984-739-0 [pounds sterling]20.00 Mike Davies is a great writer. His City of Quartz, for instance, is a truly stupendous book and unfortunately for him, probably incomparable. It is one...

Urban Transformations. Power, People and Urban Design. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Ian Bentley Routledge London, 1999, pp. 240 ISBN 0-415-12823-4 (hbk) [pounds sterling]67.14 Kim Dovey Framing Places. Mediating power in built form Routledge, London, 1999, pp. 240. ISBN 0-415-17367-1 (hbk) [pounds...

Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Ian Gough Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2000; pp. 256 ISBN 0-333-92687-0 (pbk) [pounds sterling]16.99 ISBN 0-333-80239-X (hbk) [pounds sterling]47.50 This hard-headed and hopeful collection of essays addresses a...