Capital & Class articles from September 2008

Capital & Class archives from September 2008

'It was absolute hell': inside the private prison.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction A primary aim of the neoliberal project, of which privatisation is a signal feature, has been to open up new fields for capital accumulation in areas previously considered immune from the 'calculus of profitability' (Harvey,...

Chinese state-enterprise reform: economic transition, labour unrest and worker representation.
September 22, 2008... Introduction This article examines the ways in which workers in China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have responded to the changing nature of those enterprises during the reform period since 1978. In particular, we assess the causes of...

The ambiguity of resistance: opposition to neoliberalism in Europe.
September 22, 2008... Introduction In a recent special issue of Capital & Class, Strange and Worth (2007: 2-3) noted that, 'A key question for research and more direct organisational interventions concerns the extent to which... Europe can (or cannot) be a...

When unions merge: the making of the UCU.(University and College Union )(Report)
September 22, 2008... In June 2006, the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association for Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) merged to form a single union, the University and College Union (UCU). The merging unions had,...

The neoliberal transnational university: The case of UBC Okanagan.
September 22, 2008... Introduction In March 2004, the provincial Liberal government in British Columbia announced the creation of Canada's newest university, the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO), (1) located in Kelowna, British Columbia/The...

Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis & Slavoj Zizek (eds.): Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis & Slavoj Zizek (eds.) Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth Duke University Press, 2007, 3372p. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3941-0 (pbk) 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 978-0-8223-3929-8 (hbk) 52...

Andy Mathers: Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalisation and the Birth of a European Social Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Andy Mathers Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalisation and the Birth of a European Social Movement Ashgate, 2007, 215 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-4580-1 (hbk) 50 [pounds sterling] This book redeems itself with...

Andrew Mullen: The British Left's 'Great Debate' on Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Andrew Mullen The British Left's 'Great Debate' on Europe Continuum, 2007, xv + 352pp. ISBN: 978-0-8264-9366-8 (hbk) 70 [pounds sterling] This book provides a comprehensive survey of the British left and Europe in the...

Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (eds.): Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era: Fordism and Post-Fordism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (eds.) Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era: Fatalism and Post-Fordism Edgar Elgar, 2006, Vol. I: 494 pp.; Vol. II: 645 pp. ISBN 978-1-84542-324 7 (hbk) 285 [pounds sterling] Work, it seems, has...

John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic (eds.): Revolution in the Making of the Modern World.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic (eds.) Revolution in the Making of the Modern World Routledge, 2008, 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-77183-2 (pbk) 22 [pounds sterling] It is fast becoming a cliche to observe that the...

Maryam Panah: The Islamic Republic and the World: Global Dimensions of the Iranian Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Maryam Panah The Islamic Republic and the World: Global Dimensions of the Iranian Revolution Pluto Press, 2007, 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0-745-32621-4 (hbk) 45 [pounds sterling] Maryam Panah offers a refreshingly different and...

Nicola Short: The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Nicola Short The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala. Palgrave, 2007, 187pp. ISBN: 0-230-60051-4 (hbk) 42.50 [pounds sterling] There has been widespread celebration--as well as consternation in...

Boris Kagarlitsky: Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Boris Kagarlitsky Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System Pluto Press, 2008, 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0745326825 (hbk) 35 [pounds sterling] The Russia of Vladimir Putin and his personally-chosen but popularly-elected...

Owen Worth: Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Owen Worth Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia Ashgate, 2005, 183 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3757-3 (hbk) 60 [pounds sterling] This book attempts to place the development of post-communist Russia within a...

Andrew Kliman: Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Andrew Kliman Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency Lexington Books, 2007, xvii + 230pp. ISBN: 978-0-7391-1852-8 (pbk) 18 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 978-0-7391-1851-1 (hbk) 45 [pounds sterling] ...

Perry Anderson: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Perry Anderson Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas Verso, 2005, xvii + 398 pp. ISBN: 1-85984-527-4 (hbk) 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1-85984-527-4 (pbk) 15 [pounds sterling] Perry Anderson's Spectrum.. From...

Giovanni Arrighi: Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Giovanni Arrighi Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century Verso, 2007, 420 pp. ISBN: 978-1844671045 (hbk) 25 [pounds sterling] This book is a creditable attempt to situate the present world in the history of...

Benedict Anderson: Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Benedict Anderson Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination Verso, 2007, 233 pp. ISBN: 978-1844670901 (pbk) 10 [pounds sterling] Benedict Anderson's follow up to Imagined Communities takes us back, in...

Goran Therborn (ed.): Inequalities of the World: New Theoretical Frameworks, Multiple Empirical Approaches.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Goran Therborn (ed.) Inequalities of the World: New Theoretical Frameworks, Multiple Empirical Approaches Verso, 2006, 332 pp. ISBN: 1-84467-015-5 (hbk) 55 [pound sterling] ISBN: 1-84467-519-X (pbk) 20 [pound sterling]...

Books available for review.
September 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 & P. van Parjis (eds.) (2006) Redesigning Distribution:...