Capital & Class articles from March 2003

Capital & Class archives from March 2003

Union struggle and the crisis of industrial relations in Italy. (Behind the News).
March 22, 2003... On 23 March 2002 Italian trade unions organised one of the country's biggest ever protests. Around 3,000,000 people demonstrated in Rome against the government's policy of deregulation and the terrorist murder of Marco Biagi--the government...

Unlawful instruments and goods: Afghanistan, culture and the Taliban. (Behind the News).
March 22, 2003... In December 1998, an official notice was placed in a local Herat newspaper in western Afghanistan. It reported that a 'number of unlawful instruments and goods' had been seized by the local authorities and burned. These items included...

'New Labour', welfare reform and the reserve army of labour. (Behind the News).
March 22, 2003... Introduction 'New Labour's' 2001 Manifesto (Labour Party, 2001) has a whole chapter dedicated to 'A Modern Welfare State'. The chapter outlines the policies it introduced in its first term and pledges for the next term aimed at promoting...

Progressive capitalism, crisis, and class struggle: Lessons from Japan's production control and democracy movements, 1945-47.
March 22, 2003... The apparent global triumph of neoliberal capitalism in the 1980s has been followed by renewed economic instability and anti-capitalist protest. While financial crises savage both economic basket cases (Russia, Mexico) and erstwhile economic...

Why Marxist economics should be taught but probably won't be!
March 22, 2003... Introduction (1) The crisis in recruitment to economics degrees (perhaps reflecting a wider trend in social sciences, suffering collectively, relative to vocational subjects) in the 1990s led to a raft of literature on how to reverse this...

Is there a future for a labour accord in South Africa?
March 22, 2003... Introduction Over the last 20 years, South Africa's economy has performed poorly in relation to the East Asian 'tiger' economies and itself in the 1960s and 1970s. Low gold and mineral prices, financial and trade sanctions in the late...

Manufacturing scarcity: food biotechnology and the life sciences industry.
March 22, 2003... The rise of Monsanto As one of the leading biotechnology firms whose genetically altered seeds accounted for 94 per cent of the global transgenic crop area in 2000 (RAFI 2001b), Monsanto is in many people's minds the most formidable...

Teenage pregnancy: the government's dilemma.
March 22, 2003... Introduction. The phenomenon of teenage pregnancy has recently eclipsed lone parenthood as a focus of media and state concern, and of moral outrage. Although these two terms are often used interchangeably in politics and the media,...

Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Stuart Sim Routledge 2000 ISBN 0-415218144-9 (hbk) [pounds sterling]50.00 This book promises the following: one, the delineation of a 'now wellestablished' theoretical position (p.I) that is dubbed 'post-Marxism', which is...

Regulation Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Bob Jessop (ed) Edgar Elgar, 2001, five volumes, pp. 2832 ISBN 1-85898-279-0 (hbk) [pounds sterling]615.00 One glance at this publication makes it clear: it is meant to be a landmark in regulation theory. Its five heavy red-clad...

Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas and Beyond. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Bob Cannon Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001, pp. Xiv+211. ISBN 0-333-91809-6 (hbk) [pounds sterling]45.00 It is in the nature of the theory business that it is hard to find fresh interventions which are nor advertised as...

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Verso, London and New York, 2000, pp. 433 ISBN 1-85984-798-6 (hbk) [pounds sterling]19:00 In 1991 Penguin published a book called The London Hanged. Documenting the changing nature of public...

Telling Lies about Hitler--The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Evans, RJ. Verso Press, 2002 ISBN 1-85984-417-0 (pbk) [pounds sterling]14.00 pp 326 I devoured this book guiltily one weekend when I was a rather rude houseguest. Fortunately, my friends seem to have tolerated my bad behaviour in...

The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Raya Dunayevskaya Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002, PP. 386 + xlii ISBN 0-7391-0267-2 $24.95 paperback ISBN 0-7391-0266-4 $100.00 hardback The view of virtually all Marxists and Marx scholars, however they rank Hegel as...

Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ted Benton and Ian Craib Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001, pp.203. ISBN 0-333-77499-X (pbk) This is an interesting and informative introduction to debates in the philosophy and methodology of social science. Intended for undergraduate...

Unionization and Union Leadership--the road haulage industry. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Paul Smith Continuum, London and New York, 2001, x + 230pp. ISBN 0-8264-5214-0 (hbk) [pounds sterling]60.00 This research monograph examines the construction and mobilisation of union bargaining power and influence in contract...

Selling the Work Ethic & Freedom, Efficiency and Equality. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Sharon Beder Zed Books, 2000, 292pp ISBN 1 85649 884 0 (hb) [pounds sterling]49.95 ISBN 1 85649 884 9 (pb) [pounds sterling]15.95 T.M. Wilkinson Freedom, Efficiency and Equality Macmillan, 2000, 199 pp ISBN 0 333...