Beyond Marx : theorising the global labour relations of the twenty-first century / edited by Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth ; in collaboration with Max Henninger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-518) and index.

Introduction / Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth -- The many-headed hydra : reflections on history from below / Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker -- Seamen on late eighteenth-century European warships / Niklas Frykman -- Class-warfare : primitive accumulation, military revolution and the British war-worker / Peter Way -- The shifting Maelstrom : from plantations to assembly-lines / Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto -- Workerism : an inside view : from the mass-worker to self-employed labour / Sergio Bologna -- Workers and working classes in contemporary India : a note on analytic frames and -- Political formations / Subir Sinha -- Revolutionary subjectivity, the limit to capital / Detlef Hartmann -- Housewifisation : globalisation : subsistence-perspective / Maria Mayes -- Notes on elder-care work and the limits of Marxism / Silvia Federici -- Cornelius Castoriadis's break with Marxism / Jean-Louis Prat -- A theory of defeat : Marx and the evidence of the nineteenth century / Ahlrich Meyer -- Poverty, labour, development : towards a critique of Marx's conceptualisations / Max Henninger -- What is sold on the labour-market? / Thomas Kuczynski -- In and for itself : freedom : on the historical tendency of a renewed critique of the political economy of labour / Sebastian Gerhardt -- The "fragment on machines" and the grundrisse : the workerist reading in question / Massimiliano Tomba and Ricardo Bellofiore -- Revolution from above? : money and class-composition in Italian operaismo / Steve Wright -- Marxism after the death of gold / C. George Caffentzis -- From the mass-worker to cognitive labour : historical and theoretical considerations / Carlo Vercellone -- Results and prospects / Karl Heinz Roth and Marcel van der Linden -- Bibliography -- Index.

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What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? The twenty historical and theoretical essays in this volume discuss this question.

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