A classic text by Rancière on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expe…
This volume aims to re-establish labour as the fundamental constitutive principle of the social world, through a reinterpretation of Marx's social theory. Each chapter develops a central Marxist theme, including class and classification; commodity fetishism and primitive accumul…
Farewell to the Leftist Working Class
by Houtman, Dick, Achterberg, Peter, Derks, Anton
Aspecter is haunting the long-standing class theory of politics - the specter of the rightist working class. Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequa…
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favour of the moneyed 'upscale' consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how…