Capital & Class articles from June 2006

Capital & Class archives from June 2006

State, labour and market in post-revolution Serbia.
June 22, 2006... A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain. (Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, 1939)...

Modernisation or casualisation? Numerical flexibility in public services.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Traditionally, the trade-off for moderation in demands for wage increases has been the expectation of job security, incremental career progression, pension rights and generous sickness allowances (Fredman & Morris, 1989;...

Rethinking labour markets: a critical-realist-socioeconomic perspective.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Labour markets are central to the neoliberal agenda. Hardly a week passes without a government minister or a leading industrialist urging us towards ever greater labour-market flexibility. Tony Blair, for example, noted that...

From mainstream economics to the boundaries of Marxism.
June 22, 2006... To understand and to evaluate realistically one's adversary's position and his reasons (and sometimes one's adversary is the whole of past thought) means precisely to be liberated from the prison of ideologies in the bad sense...

Debating critical realism in economics.
June 22, 2006... In responding to Nielsen and Morgan, it makes sense to detail the context in which my original piece appeared (Fine, 2004a). The first draft was submitted to the editor in 2000, and the final version, shortened and tempered upon request,...

Hegemony, class struggle and the radical historiography of global monetary standards.
June 22, 2006... [T]here seem to have been very few efforts to apply Marx's concepts to international monetary phenomena... the questions asked... do not seem to demand a class-based interpretation. John S. Odell, u.s.. International Monetary Policy ...

Research note on the Marxists Internet Archive.
June 22, 2006... www.marxists.org Most radical and working-class organisations and movements are now largely marginalised and fragmented. The literature they disseminated and introduced to young people in the past is disappearing, and their voices are...

G. Healy et al. (eds.): The Future of Worker Representation.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... G. Healy et al. (eds.) The Future of Worker Representation Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 328 pp. ISBN 1-403-91759-0 (hbk) 49-50 [pounds sterling] I am writing this review in Victoria, southeast Australia, not long after more than a quarter of...

Michael Albert: Parecon: Life After Capitalism.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Michael Albert Parecon: Life After Capitalism Verso, 2004, 311 pp. ISBN 1-84467-505-X (pbk) 9 [pounds sterling] Participatory economics--or 'pare-con' for short--is a vision of life after capitalism favoured by many in the anticapitalist...

Ellen Meiksins Wood: Empire of Capital.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Ellen Meiksins Wood Empire of Capital Verso, 2003, xiii + 182 pp. ISBN 1-84467-518-1 (pbk) 10 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-85984-502-9 (hbk) 15 [pounds sterling] Against modish theories of empire, Wood's book takes us back to the basics of...

Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya: Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice Merlin Press/University of Natal Press/Weaver Press, 2003, xx + 304 pp. ISBN 0-850-36517-1(pbk) 15.95 [pounds sterling]...