Capital & Class articles from June 2009

Capital & Class archives from June 2009

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Gareth Dale: Between State Capitalism and Globalisation: The Collapse of the East German Economy.('Popular Protest in East Germany, 1945-1989', 'The East German Revolution of 1989')(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Gareth Dale Between State Capitalism and Globalisation: The Collapse of the East German Economy Peter Lang, 2004, 37; pp. ISBN 9793039101811 (pbk) 45 [pounds sterling] Popular Protest in East Germany, 1945-1989 Routledge,...

Andreas Bieler, Werner Bonefeld, Peter Burnham and Adam David Morton: Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Andreas Bieler, Werner Bonefeld, Peter Burnham and Adam David Morton Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives Palgrave, 2006, 237 pp. ISBN: 979140399231 (bbk) 49 [pounds sterling] ...

Paul Blackledge: Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Paul Blackledge Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History Manchester University Press, 2006, 218 pp. ISBN: 9780719069572 (pbk) 13 [pounds sterling] This book is a welcome contribution to the body of literature devoted to...

Roland Erne: European Unions: Labour's Quest for a Transnational Democracy.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Roland Erne European Unions: Labour's Quest for a Transnational Democracy ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 260 pp. ISBN 9780801446481 (hbk) 15 [pounds sterling] This is a wide-ranging study that addresses two key questions:...

Kate Bronfenbrenner (ed.): Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Kate Bronfenbrenner (ed.) Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns Cornell University Press, 2007, 261 pp. ISBN: 9780801446160 (pbk) 11.50 [pounds sterling] To the global reach of capital, the...

Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.): The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.) The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy Blackwell, 2006, 263 pp. ISBN: 9781405156368 (pbk) 20 [pounds sterling] I jumped at the chance to review this book, for...

Tara Brabazon: The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Tara Brabazon The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age Ashgate, 2007, 234 pp. ISBN: 9780754670971 (hbk) 30 [pounds sterling] The University of Google is a positive book, an affirmative book. Drawing...

Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols: The Other Car Workers: Work, Organisation and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols The Other Car Workers: Work, Organisation and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry Palgrave, 2006, 232 pp. ISBN: 9781403941916 (hbk) 55 [pounds sterling] Who count as 'car workers',...

David Victor and Thomas C. Heller (eds): The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experience of Five Major Developing Countries.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... David Victor and Thomas C. Heller (eds) The Political Economy of Power Secftor Reform The Experience of Five Major Developing Countries Cambridge University Press, 2007, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780521865029 (hbk) 50 [pounds sterling] ...

Forrest Hylton: Evil Hour in Colombia.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Forrest Hylton Evil Hour in Colombia Verso, 2006, 174 pp. ISBN: 9781844675517 (pbk) 13 [pounds sterling] In this book, Forrest Hylton historicises and thereby questions what is often portrayed as the eternal and unique nature...

Henri Lefebvre: Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 3: From Modernity to Modernism.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Henri Lefebvre Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 3: From Modernity to Modernism Verso, 2005, 179 PP. ISBN: 978185984590-8 (hbk) 20 [pounds sterling] Henri Lefebvre's epic trilogy is an attempt to grasp the most profound...

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Allen Lane, 2007, 558 pp. ISBN: 9780141024530 (pbk) 9 [pounds sterling] At the time, with No Logo, many in the media thought that Naomi Klein had written the...

Eva Golinger: Bush Versus Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Eva Golinger Bush Versus Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela Monthly Review Press, New York, 2008, 175 pp. ISBN: 9781583671658 (pbk) $16 Bush Versus Chavez updates Golinger's 2006 study The Chavez Code: Cracking US...

Books available for review.(List)
June 22, 2009... 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 Balibar, E. (2007) The Philosophy of Marx (Verso). Barbrook, R. (2007) Imaginary...