Capital & Class articles from March 2008

Capital & Class archives from March 2008

Degrading the labourer: the reform of local government manual work.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Introduction The central labour problem, as identified by us academics and capitalists such as Rockefeller in the 1920s, remains that of relative low productivity (Kaufman, 2001). In the modernisation of UK public services since the 1980s,...

Workers and their alter egos as consumers.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Introduction 'In all buying, consider first, what condition of existence you cause in the production of what you buy; secondly, whether the sum you have paid is just to the producer, and in due proportion, lodged in his hands.' (John...

The road not (to be) taken--why there is no Linkspartei in the USA: The American Sonderweg and the structural barriers to popular third parties in the US political system.(Report)
March 22, 2008... I. Introduction The history of the USA is the history of a Sonderweg--a unique path. The fact that the USA is the only advanced capitalist country within Western civilisation that did not produce an institutionalised labour movement...

Genomic information and the public-private imbalance.
March 22, 2008... Introduction The 'genome race' between the Human Genome Project (HGP) of the publicly-funded International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium and the privately-funded Celera Genomics Corporation, the latter founded and led by Craig Venter,...

Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit: a summing up.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Introduction What is at stake? The central issue in this debate has been the incompatibility between simultaneist interpretations and Marx's own theory of profit, as is clear from the title of Andrew Kliman's (2001) initial...

Jonathan Joseph: Marxism and Social Theory.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jonathan Joseph Marxism and Social Theory Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 171 pp. ISBN: 1-4039-1563-4 (hbk) 55 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1-4039-1564-1 (pbk) 18.99 [pounds sterling] In this major textbook for the Palgrave Macmillan...

Gary Browning and Andrew Kilmister: Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gary Browning and Andrew Kilmister Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy Palgrave, 2006, 219 pp. ISBN: 0-333-96355-5 (hbk) 45 [pounds sterling] With Critical and Post-Critical Political Economy, Browning and Kilmister...

Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty: Capitalism with Derivatives: A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty Capitalism with Derivatives: A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, viii + 236 pp. ISBN: 1-4039-3645-5 (hbk) 58.50 [pounds sterling] For most...

Robert G. Finbow: The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Robert G. Finbow The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord Ashgate, 2006, xiii+300 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3337-2 (hbk) 55 [pounds sterling] It is fast approaching the completion of a decade since the chaotic scenes of the...

Jonas Pontusson: Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jonas Pontusson Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America Cornell University Press, 2005, 242 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-8970-9 (pbk) $19-95 ISBN: 0-8014-4351-0 (hbk) $52.50 Social issues related to the welfare of...

Craig Phelan (ed.): The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Craig Phelan (ed.) The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives Peter Lang, 2006, 404 pp. ISBN: 3-03910-508-6 (pbk) 45 [pounds sterling] Since the onset of neoliberal globalisation, labour has come under more and more...

Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel (eds.): (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel (eds.) (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics Ashgate, 2006, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-4481-2 (hbk) 55 [pounds sterling] Hunt and Rygiel's volume provides a truly...

David McNally: Another World is Possible: Globalisation and Anti-Capitalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... David McNally Another World is Possible: Globalisation and AntiCapitalism Arbeiter Ring, 2006, 408 pp., revised expanded edition ISBN: 1-894037-27-8 (pbk) 12.95 [pounds sterling] Ours is one of those moments in world history,...

Mike Davis: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mike Davis City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Verso, 2006, 462 pp. (new edition) ISBN: 1-84467-568-8 (pbk) 10.99 [pounds sterling] First published in 199O, Mike Davis's City of Quartz is now firmly...

Mike Davis: Planet of Slums.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mike Davis Planet of Slums Verso, 2006, 228 pp. ISBN: 1-84467-022-8 (hbk) 15.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1-84467-160-7 (pbk) 8.99 [pounds sterling] 'The vast shanty towns of Latin America (favelas, barrios, ranchos)',...

Max Koch: Roads to Post-Fordism: Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Max Koch Roads to Post-Fordism: Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe Ashgate, 2006, 190 + viiii pp. ISBN: 0-7546-4308-5 (hbk) 50 [pounds sterling] First published as the author's Habilitation (second doctoral...

Jean-Jacques Lecercle: A Marxist Philosophy of Language.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jean-Jacques Lecercle A Marxist Philosophy of Language Translated by Gregory Elliott Brill, 2006, 236 pp. ISBN: 90-04-14751-9 (hbk) 70 [pounds sterling] In 1977, Raymond Williams's Marxism and Literature noted that...

Books available for review.
March 22, 2008... 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 & E van Parjis (eds.) (2006) Redesigning Distribution:...