Biographical note: Georg Barthel forscht als Postdoc an der Universität Aalborg zu kollektivem Handeln von migrantischen Beschäftigten. Zuvor war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind u.a....

The paper presents a guideline to discuss a collective strategy for dealing with the controversy on the transformation problem of values into prices. The main argument is that the individual search for solutions to the transformation problem creates a variety of models that weaken the Marxist...

This article argues that to make progress in the theory of value and price we must incorporate in the debate of the transformation problem the methodological discussion about how Marxian economics relates to non-Marxian economics. Two alternative approaches to deal with that relationship are...

This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face in organizing and pursuing their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a case study, it analyses how various ‘classes of labour’ organize and mobilize for collective action to raise...