This article proposes an analysis of the labour process and the division of labour in capitalist production through a reading of Marx and a few others like Babbage and Braverman. The distinction between labour and labour power is used to expose the specificity of the labour process. Cooperation...

The aim of this paper is to make an original presentation of a cultural institution, describing division of labour force in journalism. Indeed work organisation in newspaper companies is based on a repartition of tasks between “pigistes” -freelance journalists- and the wage-earners. The...

This working paper proposes an analysis – from a Marxist point of view – of the relationships between John Maynard Keynes and the economic mainstream of his time (first part), then presents the theoretical elements on the crisis developed by this author (second part), and finally questions,...

I offer a critical reading of Thomas Piketty's book, Le Capital au XXIème siècle, Seuil, 2013.

This paper discusses the thesis put forward by Piketty (2014a) stressing the risk of an explosion of wealth inequality because capital accumulates faster than labor income in several countries, especially in the U.US. Although the overall empirical conclusion on the rise of inequalities is...