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Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Unfree Labour

November 27, 2019

Category: Capitalism, Labour, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Todd Gordon, Unpaid Labor

By Todd Gordon, (originally posted here) The last several decades has witnessed a sharp increase in legally unfree or c

New Book: The Mismeasure of Wealth – Essays on Marx and Social Form

December 17, 2017

Category: Critical Social Science, Dialectical-Materialism, Historical Materialism, Labour, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Patrick Murray, Political economy, Social Theory, Wealth

by Patrick Murray. From Haymarket Books: A wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with Marx’s key insights

New Book: Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism – Working-Class Men in International Perspective

October 16, 2017

Category: Capitalism, Charlie Walker, Class Conflict, Critical Social Science, Feminism, Gender, Labour, Neoliberalism, Steven Robert, Working-Class

Edited by by Charlie Walker & Steven Robert. From Palgrave: This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capita

John Weeks: Labour Prevented Tories from Increasing Grip on Government

June 10, 2017

Category: Jeremy Corbyn, John Weeks, Labour, The Real News Network, UK

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7qxllx2jw4&w=760&h=500] The UK general election votes hav

John Weeks on the Corbyn Phenomenon

July 11, 2016

Category: David Fields, Democracy, Dollars & Sense, Jeremy Corbyn, John Weeks, Labour, UK

By John Weeks, originally posted here Labour Party Rebellion of 2016 Cross-country political comparisons mislead by

Eva Swidler on Radical Leisure

June 17, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Ecology, Environment, Eva Swidler, Labour, Leisure, Living Standards, Monthly Review, Social Movements, Unions

From Monthly Review: […] In consonance with what we might call this “leisure ethic” of pre-capitalism, which re

Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference

May 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Distribution, Economic Policy, Effective Demand, employment, Finance, Freedom, Globalization, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Production, Research, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, Workers, World Economics Association (WEA), world economy

Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat

Graduate assistants sue University of Missouri for recognition of union

May 13, 2016

Category: Academia, Academic Freedom, Class Conflict, Higher Ed Crisis, Labour, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strikes, Students, Unions, Wages, Work, Workers

A long-threatened lawsuit to determine whether graduate assistants at the University of Missouri qualify as employe

Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?

April 20, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Distribution, Effective Demand, Fiscal Policy, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Instability, jobs, Keynes, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Monetary Policy, Monthly Review, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Prabhat Patnaik, Radical Economics, Social Justice, unemployment, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, world economy

By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee

40,000 Verizon Workers Strike Against Corporate 'Race to the Bottom'

April 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Human Rights, Inequality, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Unions, Wages, Well-being, Work

Verizon workers across the East Coast marched in picket lines on Wednesday in the largest U.S. strike in recent memory t

'Up All Night' Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

April 12, 2016

Category: austerity, Class Conflict, David Fields, Democracy, Europe, France, Human Rights, Inequality, Labour, Living Standards, Power, Praxis, Protest, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Well-being

Demonstrations this weekend were held in as many as 60 cities and towns across France as well as in Belgium, Germany, and

A Short Account of the Rise of Neoliberalism

April 11, 2016

Category: Bretton Woods, Capitalism, Class Conflict, David Fields, economic history, Economic Policy, Fed, Finance, financialization, Fiscal Policy, Globalization, History, Institutions, Labour, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Money, Neoliberalism, United States, US Hegemony, world economy

By David M. Fields Between roughly the early 1940’s and early 1970’s, the financial architecture of the w

A Brief Sketch of the Classical-Keynesian Perspective

April 8, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Classical-Keynesian, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Debt, Distribution, Effective Demand, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Institutions, Keynes, Labour, Long-Period, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Methodology, Modern Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy, Money, Political economy, Post-Keynesian, Power, Prices, Radical Economics, Sraffa, Sraffian Economics, Supermultiplier, unemployment, Value Theory, Wages

By David M. Fields From a Classical-Keynesian perspective (Bortis, 1997, 2003), rates of interest regulate rates of p

J.W. Mason: Can Sanders Do It?

February 24, 2016

Category: bernie sanders, David Fields, Fiscal Policy, Gerald Friedman, Heterodox Economics, J.W. Mason, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Social Action, Well-being

By J.W. Mason Originally posted here My old professor Jerry Friedman wrote a piece several weeks ago, arguing that a com

New book by John Smith: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

February 19, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Development, Globalization, Labour, Living Standards, Marxian Economics, Methodology, Monthly Review, Political economy, Robber Barons, Social Justice, Social Movements, Socialism, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, world economy

From Monthly Review Press: Winner of the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph co

Ernesto Screpanti on Karl Marx on wage labour – From natural abstraction to formal subsumption

February 17, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, David Fields, Ernesto Screpanti, Heterodox Economics, Labour, Law of Tendency, Marxian Economics, P Quick, Power, Socialism, Wealth, Well-being, Work

From the abstract: Marx develops two different theories of the employment relationship: in one it results from a contr

New book by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Inventing the Future – Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

February 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, David Fields, Financial Crisis, Labour, Living Standards, Marxism, Political economy, Social Justice, Socialism, Technology, Well-being, Work

From Verso: Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious wo

Jayati Ghosh on Technology and the Future of Work

February 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Development, Jayati Ghosh, jobs, Labour, Macroeconomics, Technology, Well-being, Work

By Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics and Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal N

Emma Dowling on Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy

February 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, David Fields, Feminism, Labour, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Social Justice, unemployment, Wages, Wealth, Well-being

By Emma Dowling Taking care in order to be taken care of. That was the deal of heteronormative love. Underpinning the rom

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