Capital & Class articles from September 2003

Capital & Class archives from September 2003

Erratum.(correction to article by Colin Coulter in last issue)(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2003... The last edition of Capital & Class featured an article by Colin Coulter entitled 'The new world order of things'. Unfortunately some sentences from the introduction to the article were removed without the knowledge or consent of the author....

Power or counter power? The dilemma of the Piquetero movement in Argentina post-crisis.(Unemployed Workers Movement)(Behind The News 1)
September 22, 2003... The profound political and economic crisis of December 2001 in Argentina brought in its wake differences within the labour movement on what form of class action to take to radically transform society. After the crisis, as a recomposition of...

Bolivia: between a rock and a hard place.(2002 election)(Behind The News 2)
September 22, 2003... After a fleeting appearance in the world press last July (2002), the reporting of the recent election in Bolivia is likely to fall out of focus until some suitably newsworthy item gives it some prominence. Next time it could be a far more...

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Lula, the 'losers' alliance', and the prospects for change in Brazil (1).(Behind The News 3)
September 22, 2003... The Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) won a resounding victory in the presidential elections in October 2002. Its candidate, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) received 40m votes (46.4%) in the first round, and 53m (61.3%) in the second round of the...

A note on Chris Arthur's 'dialectics of negativity' (1).(Polemic)
September 22, 2003... In Arthur's words, 'My position is quite different from that of the orthodox tradition, which sees labour creating something positive, namely value, then expropriated'. Rather, it is capital that produces value and it 'can produce value only...

Hidden forms of resistance among Turkish workers: hegemonic incorporation or building blocks for working class struggle? *.(Polemic)
September 22, 2003... Introduction This paper aims to go beyond the limits of the recent debate on the changing nature of the capitalist labour process. This has been developed in the context of increasing empirical evidence on managerial practices in...

Time for redistribution of income: the case for a Scottish Service Tax.(Polemic)
September 22, 2003... 1. Introduction This paper is policy orientated and grew out of research funded by the Scottish Socialist Party. The idea of a Scottish Service Tax has been adopted as a key component of their social and economic strategy. Based in the...

On the TSSI and the exploitation theory of profit.('temporalist single system interpretation')(response to article by Andrew J. Kliman, Capital & Class, vol. 73, p. 97, 2001 )
September 22, 2003... 1 Introduction The Marxian account of exploitation is a theory of how surplus labour is extracted, and the form that this takes as profit. In formalisations of Marxian theory, the relationship between surplus labour and profit is expressed...

Critical remarks on cultural aspects of Asian ghettos in modern Britain (1).(Polemic)
September 22, 2003... Introduction (2) Events in Northern towns (Bradford, Burnley, and Oldham) in the summer of 2001 have, once more, shown the existence of a Nazi menace and the threat it poses to ethnic minority communities. The destruction of this threat...

Ana Dinerstein and Michael Neary (eds) The Labour Debate: an investigation into the theory & reality of capitalist work.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002. pp 245 + ix ISBN : 0-7546-1779-3 (hbk) 42.50 [pounds sterling] Rejecting the fashionable notions that capitalism is no longer based upon labouring but upon consuming, and that Marxist political economy is...

Richard Hyman Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class & Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Sage, London, 2002, 196 pp ISBN 0 7619 5220 9 (hbk) 55.00 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 0 7619 5221 7 (pbk) 18.99 [pounds sterling] Understanding European Trade Unionism seeks to construct a theoretical analysis of the distinctive national...

Andrew Vandenberg (editor) Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London, 2000, pp. 312 ISBN 0-333-74847-6 (pbk) 15.99 [pounds sterling] Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era is a somewhat strange collection insofar that it is both useful and...

Simon Cooper, John Hinkson and Geoff Sharp (eds) Scholars and Entrepreneurs: The Universities in Crisis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Arena Publications, 2002, 318 pp. ISBN: 0-9598181-6-2 (pbk) Australian universities are in crisis. That is the premise of all 13 of the contributions to this collection, which forms a special double issue (numbers 17 and 18) of Arena...

Ian Gray and Geoffrey Lawrence A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0521002273 (pbk) 17.95 [pounds sterling]: ISBN 0521807530 (hbk) 47.50 [pounds sterling] There has been a dearth of critical scholarship on contemporary rural political economy in Australia. This is...

The global and the political.(The False Dilemma: Globalization: Opportunity or Threat; The Limits of Capitalism. An Approach to Globalization Without Neoliberalism; Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization; Globalization and Social Change )(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oscar Ugarteche The False Dilemma: Globalization: Opportunity or Threat Zed, London, 2000, pp. xvi+240. ISBN 1-85649-690-2 (pbk) 14.95 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 1-85649-689-9 (hbk) 45.00 [pounds sterling] Wim Dierckxsens The Limits...

Arnlaug Leira Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. viii + 182 pp ISBN 0521571294 (hbk) 40.00 [pounds sterling] How do welfare states approach what is historically the most comprehensive change in family form? Leira is referring to mothers entering...