Beyond Marx : Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century

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Historical Materialism Book Ser. ; v.56

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Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part One; The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below; Seamen on Late Eighteenth-Century European Warships; Class-Warfare: Primitive Accumulation, Military Revolution and the British War-Worker; The Shifting Maelstrom: From Plantations to Assembly-Lines; Workerism: An Inside View: From the Mass-Worker to Self-Employed Labour; Workers and Working Classes in Contemporary India: A Note on Analytic Frames and Political Formations; Revolutionary Subjectivity, the Limit to Capital; Housewifisation - Globalisation - Subsistence-Perspective

Notes on Elder-Care Work and the Limits of MarxismPart Two; Cornelius Castoriadis's Break With Marxism; A Theory of Defeat: Marx and the Evidence of the Nineteenth Century; Poverty, Labour, Development: Towards a Critique of Marx's Conceptualisations; What is Sold on the Labour-Market?; In And For Itself: Freedom. On the Historical Tendency of a Renewed Critique of the Political Economy of Labour; The 'Fragment on Machines' and the Grundrisse: The Workerist Reading in Question; Revolution from Above? Money and Class-Composition in Italian Operaismo; Marxism after the Death of Gold

From the Mass-Worker to Cognitive Labour: Historical and Theoretical ConsiderationsResults and Prospects; Bibliography; Index

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