Capital & Class articles from March 2006

Capital & Class archives from March 2006

Value production and struggle in the classroom: teachers within, against and beyond capital.
March 22, 2006... Introduction Marxists have long recognised that educators play a key role in the reproduction of capitalist relations f production in general, and of that special commodity, labour power, in particular. Bowles and Gintis, for example, in...

The denial of history: reification, intellectual property rights and the lessons of the past.
March 22, 2006... We are often told that we have entered a new age and a new society: the 'information society'. Such claims have prompted a widened interest in and concern about intellectual property rights (IPRS). Indeed, intellectual property is the legal...

Neoliberal hegemony, transnational capital and the terms of the EU's Eastward expansion.(European Union)
March 22, 2006... Introduction As of May 2004 ten new countries have entered the European Union (EU), eight of them from eastern Europe. (1) Thus, after more than a decade, the period of hesitation, insecurities and drawbacks so characteristic of the...

The ethnic factor in state-labour relations: the case of Malaysia.
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction The events unleashed by the fall of the Berlin Wall, and by the subsequent opening-up of the former command economies together with the rapid extension of the neoliberal economic agenda, have resulted in significant change...

Replicating Marx: a reply to Mohun.
March 22, 2006... 'Arbitrary' stands in opposition to 'Natural' only if one is attempting to designate the manner in which signs have been established. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things Introduction Kliman (2001) showed that 'simultaneist'...

Daniele Archibugi (ed.): Debating Cosmopolitics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Daniele Archibugi (ed.) Debating Cosmopolitics. Verso, 2003, 288 pp. ISBN 1-859-84437-5 (pbk) 14 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-859-84505-3 (hbk) 40 [pounds sterling] A Polemic by Robert Fine Cosmopolitanism has its faults, but it is far superior...

John Michael Roberts: The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... John Michael Roberts The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 288 pp. ISBN 1-403-90566-5 (hbk) 52.50 [pounds sterling] This is a book about people speaking to one another in public spaces. In...

Benjami Shepard & Ronald Hayduk (eds.): From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalisation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Benjamin Shepard & Ronald Hayduk (eds.) From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalisation Verso, 2002, xii + 429 pp. ISBN: 1-859-84356-5 (pbk) 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1-859-84653-x (hbk) 45 [pounds...

Steven Kettell: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy-Making: From the Gold Standard to the Euro.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Steven Kettell The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy-Making: From the Gold Standard to the Euro Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 248 pp. ISBN 1-403-92071-0 (hbk) 47 [pounds sterling] The first page of this book argues that the study of...

Aditya Mukherjee: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Aditya Mukherjee Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947 Sage, 2002, 461 pp. ISBN: 0-761-99564-1 (hbk) 45 (pounds sterling) 'This work describes and analyzes the process of the emergence and...

Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.): Historical Materialism and Globalization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.) Historical Materialism and Globalization Routledge, 2002, 320 pp. ISBN 0-415-26371-9 (pbk) 23 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-415-26370-0 (hbk) 75 [pounds sterling] Not too long ago, someone said that we should...

Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds.) Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds.) Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xiii + 246 pp. ISBN 1-403-90002-7 (hbk) 60 [pounds sterling] This collective volume is divided into four...

Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and Jonathan Pincus (eds.): Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and Jonathan Pincus (eds.) Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus Routledge, 2001, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-415-30618-3 (pbk) 28 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-415-22822-0 (hbk) 95...

Etienne Balibar: Politics and the Other Scene.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Etienne Balibar Politics and the Other Scene Verso, 2002, 160 pp. ISBN 1-859-84267-4 (pbk) 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-859-84725-0 (hbk) 40 [pounds sterling] This book is a collection of Balibar's recent essays. Although they range across...

John Clarke: Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... John Clarke Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy Sage, 2004, 208 pp. ISBN: 0-761-94203-3 (pbk) 19 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-761-94202-5 (hbk) 60 [pounds sterling] John Clarke's Changing Welfare, Changing States...

Filling the void: post-Marxism?(Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History )(Post-Marxism: A Reader )(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... Filling the void: Post-Marxism? Stuart Sim Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History Routledge, 2000, 208 pp. ISBN 0-415-21814-4 (hbk) 70 [pounds sterling] Stuart Sim (ed.) Post-Marxism: A Reader Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 192 PP. ISBN...

John Crabtree: Patterns of Protest: Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2006... John Crabtree Patterns of Protest: Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia Latin America Bureau, 2005, x + 118 pp. ISBN 1-899-36571-0 (pbk) 9 [pounds sterling] The Cochabamba 'water war' of 2000 projected Bolivia--South America's poorest...

Books available for review.
March 22, 2006... If any reader would like to review any of the books listed below, please contact one of the book review editors, Andrew McCulloch or John Stirling, by email: or . Please note Andrew McCulloch's new email address, which has changed...