Some questions about work, labour, agency and class in Jason Moore’s capitalist world-ecology

Abstract

Abstract This brief paper suggests some puzzles, lacunae and questions concerning four of the key terms in Jason Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life: work, labour, agency and class. There are connections between the issues identified, especially in relation to a ‘stereotypical’ notion of ‘fully’ proletarian labour deployed by Moore, agency in the ‘work’ of human and non-human natures, and questions of class and class struggle.