Beginning of History

Value Struggles and Global Capital

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Francis Fukuyama may declare the 'end of history', and neoliberal capital embraces this belief. However, the diverse struggles for commons and dignity around the planet reveal a different reality: that of the beginning of history. The clash between these two perspectives is the subject matter of this book. This book analyses the frontline of this struggle. On one side, a social force called capital pursues endless growth and monetary value. On the other side, other social forces strive to rearrange the web of life on their own terms. This book engages with alternative modes of co-production recently posed by the alter-globalisation movement, and it examines what these movements are up against. This account explores groundbreaking new critical political economic theory and its role in bringing about radical social change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-20
Mått:150 x 230 x 19 mm
Vikt:471 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745320359

Utforska kategorier

Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Massimo De Angelis is Reader in Political Economy at the University of East London. He is the author of The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital (Pluto, 2006), Keynesianism, and Social Conflict and Political Economy (2000). He is editor of the web journal The Commoner.

Recensioner i media

'Brings creativity to the centre of anti-capitalist thought and through it provides new meanings to the concepts of anarchism, socialism and communism'

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of Tables and BoxesPreface 1. The Beginning of History Part I: Orientations: Co-production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain2. Value Struggles 3. Capital as a Social Force 4. With No Limits 5. Production and Reproduction 6. Production, Reproduction and Global Loops Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations on the Contemporary Work Machine7 Enclosures and Disciplinary Integration 8. Global Loops 9. The Global Work Machine Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices10. Marx and the Enclosures we Face 11. Enclosures with No Limits 12. The ‘Law of Value,’ Immaterial Labour, and the ‘Centre' of Power13. The Valuing and Measuring of Capital 14. Market Freedom and the Prison: Hayek and Bentham 15. The Fractal Panopticon and Ubiquitous Revolution Part IV: ‘By Asking Questions we Walk’: The Problematics of Decoupling16. The ‘Outside’17. Commons NotesReferences Other Web ResourcesIndex