Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1177/03098168221129403b
Ulv Hanssen
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1177/03098168221129403a
S. Robinson
the historical outline of the international labour movement, it examines the contemporary renewal of labour protest as the working class has shifted southwards and has been reinforced in high-income countries. The chapter also examines the circumstances and outcome of labour protests in manufacturing, service and mining. The industrial action of labour movements, more often than not in spontaneous forms of organized labour outside the formal trade union structure faces formidable challenges. Chapter 8, A Socialist Approach to Migration, presents a socialist perspective of migration, in which countries have a simple and egalitarian registration process; the architecture of the world system no longer generates cheap labour and work is revalued according to the social needs of communities. It highlights the political economy of the condition for the abolition of the capitalist migration regime, labour-driven development on a national basis, rejection of the international law of value, and social and cultural development. In the context of labour beyond capitalism, Hannah argues, social transformation requires the use of technological development and structural change that relocate and reconfigure production in the interests of workers, not profit, to avoid the forced competition between workers of different countries. She further argues that the issue for economic transformation is not the generation of more wealth; it is how to use this wealth to ensure genuine development, which demands the recognition that the generation and distribution of wealth are based on social relations. Finally, this chapter argues for a programme for migration and on mechanisms to advance the quality of movement by means of regulating the labour market in the interests of all working people. The book is quite engaging and can be used as a reference text for the scholars of social sciences in general and migration and labour studies in particular.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/03098168221128943
A. Avigur-Eshel, D. Filc
The way that the economy, politics and ideology interact to maintain stability or bring about change is a central concern for political economy. The social bloc perspective, as elaborated by Amable and Palombarini, provides a promising framework with which to address this question due to its attempt to combine an emphasis on the economic structure with a more central role for politics and ideology. This article argues, however, that the social bloc perspective still retains a rather functional understanding of these two concepts. We contend that a neo-Gramscian approach focusing on hegemonic struggles and adopting a complex conceptualisation of class can overcome these functionalist tendencies, because it perceives politics and ideology as crucial factors in the formation of social groups and the emergence and actions of social blocs. We further claim that a neo-Gramscian approach has broader applicability. To ground our claims empirically, we analyse a case which cannot be accounted for by the social bloc perspective. This is a case in which two social blocs composing different social groups with rivalling worldviews shared some meaningful ideological beliefs and cooperated politically to realise them.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1177/03098168221114942b
Ozancan Bozkurt
Lynch, Kathleen Care and Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022;248 pp.: ISBN 9781509543837, $28.95 Kathleen Lynch's I Care and Capitalism i presents on the diversified dimensions of the manifold relationship between care and capitalism. Chapter 10 and concluding remarks clarify the possibilities of care-oriented resistance to capitalism and the potential lessons drawn from the Covid-19 experience. Chapter 7 analyzes other ideologies of capitalism that can potentially harm a care-based culture. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Capital & Class is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1177/03098168221114379
Antonio Thomaz Júnior, B. Garvey
This article advocates the transgression of incumbent theoretical divisions between rural and urban abodes of production and draws on new analyses of contemporary spaces of capital and labour antagonisms in Brazil. It does so to articulate a broadening of the definition of class and class struggle towards an emancipatory praxis that does not necessarily prioritise industrialised workers. The study has a particular focus on the reconfiguration of socio-spatial arrangements linked to 21st century commodity cultivation, extraction and trade and subsequent class tensions on the material and epistemological frontier between (hydro, agro and mineral) mega projects and the autonomous territories of rural subjects. The renewed degradation of conditions for a labour force that has always been precarious, the dissolving dichotomy between proletarianised and peasant labour, and the ongoing resistance to corporate capture by communities is evoked to contrast distinct metabolic relations within rural territories with the objectification of labour and nature under capitalism. The analysis reveals new configurations of class domination, tension and counter movements. Many critical scholars, particularly those in the Global South, have been attentive to alternate readings of the world by indigenous, African descendent, peasant and agro-extractivist communities that may be unfamiliar yet underpin vociferous, and often fatal, resistance to capital accumulation. The task to effectively situate these struggles within a theory of broader, heterogeneous class struggle and integrate this ‘wealth’ of collective struggle and knowledge towards societal transformation remains important work in progress. In this spirit, the paper offers some possibilities for making new conceptual and material connections between rural and urban productive spaces and across currently fragmented class formations and identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1177/03098168221114942a
J. Hübner
Many people are familiar with the French Revolution as an iconic, transformative event of Western history. Few, however, are as familiar with the Paris Commune, which has had a similarly reverberating effect in the long struggle for human liberation under the three-barreled gun of state, capital, and patriarchy. Historian Carolyn J. Eichner offers a concise solution to those who are unfamiliar with this event from March-May 1871—a century after the French Revolution. Eichner lucidly narrates the story of how the residents of Paris managed, for 72 days, to free themselves from hegemonic political and economic authority to establish a more democratic and humane society:
许多人都熟悉法国大革命，认为它是西方历史上标志性的变革事件。然而，很少有人熟悉巴黎公社，它在国家、资本和父权制的三管枪下为人类解放而进行的长期斗争中产生了类似的反响。历史学家卡洛琳·j·艾希纳(Carolyn J. Eichner)为那些不熟悉1871年3月至5月(法国大革命后一个世纪)这一事件的人提供了一个简洁的答案。埃希纳清晰地叙述了巴黎居民如何在72天内摆脱霸权政治和经济权威，建立一个更加民主和人道的社会的故事:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1177/03098168221114942
Amir Khan
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1177/03098168221109653
D. Fletcher, James C. A. Redman
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to increased poverty; exacerbated ill health; led some to engage in ‘survival crime’ or to disengage from the social security system. This support is predicated on the perceived need to discipline ‘undeserving’ groups; principally the feckless, those gaming the system and migrants. The authors argue that this reflects the success of a ‘two-nations’ hegemonic project that has sought to legitimise an ongoing phase of capitalist development characterised by the removal of social protections, widening inter-class inequalities and the implementation of punitive welfare reforms to submit the unemployed to insecure poverty labour. This article makes a significant original contribution to the field by demonstrating that the resonance of the ‘two-nations’ hegemonic project resides in both its relatability to lived experiences of the unemployed and its tendency to cast a stigmatising threat over their out-of-work status.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/03098168221101949d
Furkan Elmas
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