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Capital & Class articles from June 2007
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Capital & Class archives from June 2007
Private military companies: 'shadow soldiers' of neo-colonialism.(BEHIND THE NEWS)
June 22, 2007... Niccolo Machiavelli, in his letter to a Florentine noble about his book The Art of War--considered a masterpiece by some--dwells on armed forces gaining an 'official', 'public' quality, and emphasises the necessity of this tendency for the...
Value form and class struggle: a critique of the autonomist theory of value.(Author abstract)
June 22, 2007... Introduction
At the beginning of the 1970S, the reigning 'Ricardian' consensus within Marxist value theory started to fall apart. Upon its demise, new currents emerged that confronted the old orthodoxy, and attempted to unmask its...
Global capitalism, the anti-globalisation movement and the third world.(Author abstract)
June 22, 2007... Introduction
Only seven years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that something as stuffy as the sixth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Hong Kong in December 2005, would have caused so much...
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation: modernisation as domination in the Chilean and British Left.
June 22, 2007... Introduction
During the 1980s and 1990S, most Left parties underwent a process of modernisation, after which they increasingly moderated their political aims and turned away from emancipatory and egalitarian goals towards programmes that...
The incoherence of the TSSI: a reply to Kliman and Freeman.(temporal single-system interpretation)
June 22, 2007... I. Introduction
In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) of Marx's Capital. Its adherents claim that the TSSI 'refutes' what they see as false allegations that Marx made...
Misconceptions of power: from Alchian and Demsetz to Bowles and Gintis.
June 22, 2007... Introduction
In this paper, I critically discuss the debate on power within mainstream economics. In that debate, apparently opposite conceptions have been developed, spanning from the ultra-liberal view of Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz...
Mike Berlin: Never on Our Knees: A History of the RMT, 1979-2006.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mike Berlin Never on Our Knees: A History of the RMT, 1979-2006. Pluto Press, 2006, 336 pp. ISBN 0-745-32605-6 (pbk) 16.99 [pounds]
The greatest pleasure in reading a book like this lies in what can only be called its 'nuggets'. A detailed...
Andreas Bieler: The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Andreas Bieler The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring Manchester University Press, 2006, 288 pp. ISBN 0-7190-7252-2 (hbk) 55 [pounds sterling]
The neoliberal project of capitalist...
Roger V. Seifert and Tom Sibley: United They Stood: The Story of the 2002-2004 Firefighters' Strike.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Roger V. Seifert and Tom Sibley United They Stood: The Story of the 2002-2004 Firefighters' Strike Lawrence & Wishart, 2005, 304 pp. ISBN 1-905-00718-3 (pbk) 18.95 [pounds sterling]
Public-sector reform has become a key political...
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello: The New Spirit of Capitalism.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello The New Spirit of Capitalism Verso, 2006, 656 pp. ISBN 1-844-67165-8 (hbk) 75.00 [pounds sterling]
When the original French edition of The New Spirit of Capitalism was published in 1999 it immediately...
Peter Linebaugh: The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Peter Linebaugh The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century Verso, 2006, 492 pp. (second edition) ISBN 1-85984576-2 (pbk) 11.99 [pounds]
Coming as it does at a time of international and domestic conflict and...
Luis Enrique Alonso and Miguel Martinez Lucio (eds.): Employment Relations in a Changing Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Luis Enrique Alonso and Miguel Martinez Lucio (eds.) Employment Relations in a Changing Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, 304 pp. ISBN 0-333-97037-3 (hbk) 50 [pounds]
There can be little doubt that...
Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh and Thea Lee: The Field Guide to the Global Economy (revised edition).(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh and Thea Lee The Field Guide to the Global Economy (revised edition) The New Press, 2005, 208 pp. ISBN 1-565-84956-6 (pbk) 11.99 [pounds]
This new edition of The Field Guide to the Global Economy comprises an...
Penny Green and Tony Ward (eds.): State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Penny Green and Tony Ward (eds.) State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption Pluto Press, 2004, 251 pp. ISBN 0-7453-1784-7 (pbk) 14.99 [pounds]
The study of state crime--crimes committed by states--constitutes one of the most crucial...
Books available for review.
June 22, 2007... If you would like to review any of the books listed below, please contact the book reviews editor, Adam D. Morton, by email: Adam.Morton@nottingham.ac.uk
Ackerman, B., A. Alstott & P. van Parjis (eds.) (2006) Redesigning Distribution:...