Long prone to dogmatic disagreement, the question of value in Marx's thought-what value is, the purpose it serves, its application to real-world capitalism-requires renewal if Marx's work is to remain vibrant. In Value in Marx, George Henderson offers a lucid rereading of Marx that strips value...

Konzerne sind immer wieder in Menschenrechtsverletzungen verwickelt, auch deutsche. Sie profitieren von der Ausbeutung der Arbeiter in Textilfabriken in Asien, in Kohlegruben in Südafrika oder beim Bau fragwürdiger Staudammprojekte in Kolumbien. Soziale Errungenschaften sind vergänglich, das...

"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical...

This paper discusses labor value and the rate of exploitation in the global economy using international input–output tables. Labor value is defined as the multiplication of the labor coefficient and Leontief inverse. Exploitation means that the amount of labor embodied in the received wage...