Capital & Class articles from June 2004

Capital & Class archives from June 2004

Capitalism is making us sick: behind the SARS crisis in Toronto.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... The outbreaks in Toronto shone a harsh light on the inadequacies and outright failures of neoliberal public health policies and practices. They also clearly showed the extent to which neoliberal governments prioritise business security...

State restructuring and trade union realignment: the pensions struggle in France.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... In a previous 'Behind the News' article, Jeffreys (1996) provided a convincing analysis of the 1995 French strikes over pension reform, which he represented as the latest fight over 'acquired rights' enshrined in the 1944 constitutional...

Welfare-through-work and the re-regulation of labour markets in Denmark.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... Introduction This paper is positioned within theoretical perspectives that focus on welfare states as systems of power and negotiation between key social forces acting in and through the state apparatus. In this context, we suggest that...

Marxian and post-Keynesian theories of finance and the business cycle.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... Introduction The end of the economic expansion that began in the us and the other advanced capitalist countries in the early 1990s presents an opportune moment to review Marxian theories of the business cycle. (1) Much of the orthodox...

From the mass worker to the multitude: a theoretical contextualisation of Hardt and Negri's Empire.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... Italian Marxism and the New Left The impact of Italian Marxism on Anglo-American thought has, since the English translation of the Prison Notebooks in 1971, been largely restricted to the study of Gramsci in the field of cultural studies....

Localism and its neoliberal application: a case study of West Gate New Deal for Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.(Behind The News)
June 22, 2004... 'Local residents will control all aspects of the New Deal programme including planning, delivery and finance. Any subsequent statements, clauses, or implications which contradict this protocol in fact or in spirit will be deemed...

Farewell Johannes.(Johannes Agnoli)(Obituary)
June 22, 2004... Johannes Agnoli is dead. He died on the 4th of May in an Quirico di Moriano, Tuscany. He was 78 years old. Since his retirement from the Free University of Berlin in 1991, he had lived in his native Italy in a house that he had bought when the...

H. Bradley, M. Erickson, C. Stephenson and S. Williams: Myths at Work.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... H. Bradley, M. Erickson, C. Stephenson and S. Williams Myths at Work Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000, x + 235pp ISBN 0-7456-2270-4 (hbk) 50.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0-74562271-2 (pbk) 14.99 [pounds sterling] The sociology of...

Felix Guattari (translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton): the Three Ecologies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Felix Guattari (translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton) The Three Ecologies Athlone Press, London and New Brunswick, NJ, 2000, 174 pp. ISBN 0485006081 (pbk) 14.99 [pounds sterling] This book is an introduction to Felix...

Dinah Livingstone (ed.): Work: an Anthology.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Dinah Livingstone (ed.) Work: An Anthology Katabasis, London, 1999, 320 pp ISBN 0-904872-31-9 12.95 [pounds sterling] This is a fascinating collection of poems, essays, reports and accounts based on the experience of work and...

Margaret Jane Radin: Contested Commodities: the Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Margaret Jane Radin Contested Commodities: The Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001, xiv + 279 pp. ISBN 0-674-00716-6 (pbk) 12.95 [pounds sterling] ...

R. Guttmann: Cybercash: the Coming Era of Electronic Money.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... R. Guttmann Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, 2003, xiv + 272pp ISBN 0-333-98730-6 (hbk) 30.00 [pounds sterling] The interrogation of capitalism by social scientists continues to be...

Gregor Gall: the Meaning of Militancy? Postal Workers and Industrial Relations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gregor Gall The Meaning of Militancy? Postal Workers and Industrial Relations Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, pp. 348 ISBN 0-7546-1902-8 (hbk) 55.00 [pounds sterling] Given the continuing, laborious overpreoccupation...

Werner Bonefeld and Sergio Tischler (eds.): What is to be Done? Leninism, anti-Leninist Marxism and the question of revolution today.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Werner Bonefeld and Sergio Tischler (eds.) What is to be Done? Leninism, anti-Leninist Marxism and the question of revolution today Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002 ISBN 0-7546-3231-8 (hbk) 46.50 [pounds sterling] What is to be Done?,...