Beyond Marx: theorising the global labour relations of the twenty-first century

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Cover Title page Copyright 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 Marxism Part 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 Considerations Results and Prospects Bibliography Index