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Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation Tom Brass

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation By Tom Brass

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation by Tom Brass


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Conventional wisdom holds that Capitalism depends on the exploitation of 'free labor.' This volume challenges those ideas.

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation Summary

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 35 by Tom Brass

With so many political establishments and economic institutions undergoing enormous changes, many economic theories are being called into question. The legitimacy of capitalism is being considered by socialist economists the world over, and critiques of Marxism are attempting to put the school of thought into a more modern context. Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century calls into question the validity of various historical interpretations of capitalism, unfreedom and primitive accumulation based on current economic developments.

Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation Reviews

"Tom Brass, one of the United Kingdom's leading Marxist scholars has written a brilliant, theoretically informed, comprehensive critique of past and present, Marxist and non-Marxist writers of capitalist labor regimes and puts forth an alternative theoretical-conceptual framework ... Brass's book is a landmark study that is especially relevant to the emergence of a new genre of development studies which will return the class struggle and the ransition to socialism into the center of theory and practice."
James Petras, Science and Society

The volume is a timely and important contribution to the literature (especially its Marxist variant) on unfree labour, with a wealth of theoretical and empirical detail, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the issue of unfreedom in contemporary labour markets[the] concept of class struggle from above (by capital against labour) is hugely important in our current conjuncture, when any attempts to rein in the excesses of capital are framed as class warfare or a politics of envy
Kendra Strauss, Capital and Class

"Tom Brass, one of the United Kingdom's leading Marxist scholars has written a brilliant, theoretically informed, comprehensive critique of past and present, Marxist and non-Marxist writers of capitalist labor regimes and puts forth an alternative theoretical-conceptual framework ... Brass's book is a landmark study that is especially relevant to the emergence of a new genre of development studies which will return the class struggle and the ransition to socialism into the center of theory and practice."
James Petras, Science and Society

The volume is a timely and important contribution to the literature (especially its Marxist variant) on unfree labour, with a wealth of theoretical and empirical detail, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the issue of unfreedom in contemporary labour markets[the] concept of class struggle from above (by capital against labour) is hugely important in our current conjuncture, when any attempts to rein in the excesses of capital are framed as class warfare or a politics of envy
Kendra Strauss, Capital and Class

About Tom Brass

Tom Brass: Ph.D Phil (1982) formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Smithian Inheritance
2. The Marxist Inheritance
3. Semi-Feudalism and Modern Marxism
4. Disguised Wage Labour and Modern Marxism
5. Unfreedom as Primitive Accumulation?
6. Germany and the United States: Primitive or Fully Functioning Accumulation?
7. Medieval Working Practices? British Agriculture and the Return of the Gangmaster
8. Citizenship and Human Rights or Socialism?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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NPB9781608462407
9781608462407
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Labor Regime Change In The Twenty-first Century: Unfreedom, Captalism And Primitive Accumulation: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 35 by Tom Brass
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Haymarket Books
2013-02-23
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