Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic crisis has been used to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below. This volume addresses how capitalist classes are reorganizing as well as the structure and composition of working classes in the 21st century. The Walmart working class and the precarious proletariat, Class and labour in digital capitalism, The new configuration of the capitalist classes, Dissecting capital's national and transnational dimensions, Brazil's new capitalism: state sponsorship and popular protest, Class analysis from the Communist Manifesto to Post-colonialism, Five decades of Socialist Register

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Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic crisis has been used to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below. This volume addresses how capitalist classes are reorganizing as well as the structure and composition of working classes in the 21st century. The Walmart working class and the precarious proletariat, Class and labour in digital capitalism, The new configuration of the capitalist classes, Dissecting capital's national and transnational dimensions, Brazil's new capitalism: state sponsorship and popular protest, Class analysis from the Communist Manifesto to Post-colonialism, Five decades of Socialist Register

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Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014

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The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic crisis has been used to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below. This volume addresses how capitalist classes are reorganizing as well as the structure and composition of working classes in the 21st century. The Walmart working class and the precarious proletariat, Class and labour in digital capitalism, The new configuration of the capitalist classes, Dissecting capital's national and transnational dimensions, Brazil's new capitalism: state sponsorship and popular protest, Class analysis from the Communist Manifesto to Post-colonialism, Five decades of Socialist Register


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583674314
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 12/01/2013
Series: Socialist Register
Edition description: 2014 ed.
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University in Toronto and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination.

Greg Albo teaches comparative and Canadian political economy at York University. He is the co-editor of the Socialist Register and author and editor of numerous books.

Vivek Chibber is professor of sociology at New York University.

Table of Contents

Preface Leo Panitch Greg Albo Vivek Chibber ix

The Walmart working class Arun Gupta 1

Reconsiderations of class: precariousness as proletarianization Bryan Palmer 40

Capitalism, class and universalism: escaping the cul-de-sac of postcolonial theory Vivek Chibber 63

The underpinnings of class in the digital age: living, labour and value Ursula Huws 80

The British ruling class Colin Leys 108

The new configuration of the capitalist class Claude Serfati 138

Whither the transnational capitalist class? William K. Carroll 162

The European capitalist class and the crisis of its hegemonic project Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 189

Brazil's new imperial capitalism Virginia Fontes Ana Garcia 207

Mass protests: Brazilian spring or Brazilian malaise? Alfredo Saad-Filho Lecio Morais 227

Beyond the labour of Sisyphus: unions and the city Ian MacDonald 247

Left unity or class unity? Working-class politics in Britain Andrew Murray 266

Rethinking class: the lineage of the Socialist Register Madeleine Davis 287

Registering class and politics: fifty years of the Socialist Register Leo Panitch 305

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