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...

The prevalent consensus in critical social sciences is that finance articulates the world economy as a global hierarchy of creditor-debtor relations that reproduce and further aggravate existing income and wealth inequalities. Class struggle is correspondingly understood as a conflict between...

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...

The prevalent consensus in critical social sciences is that finance articulates the world economy as a global hierarchy of creditor-debtor relations that reproduce and further aggravate existing income and wealth inequalities. Class struggle is correspondingly understood as a conflict between...

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeit birgt ein hohes Konfliktpotenzial zwischen Beschäftigten und Unternehmen. Bei dem Lager- und Logistikzentrum Amazon zeigt sich ein spezifisches Ensemble von Managementstrategien und Produktionsregime, das Georg Barthel als Amazonismus identifiziert. Diese neue...

Bruno, Christian, Clairette, Christiane et Viviane sont des " anciens de Peugeot " à Sochaux-Montbéliard. Cabossés par le travail en usine, ces retraités placent le militantisme syndical et la solidarité amicale au cœur de leur vie. À travers quelles expériences apprennent-ils à...

La transición fue un momento convulso en el que se pusieron sobre la mesa alternativas que pudieron desembocar en otro final. De los futuros posibles, el anarcosindicalista resulta uno de los más interesantes. Desde 1975 y contra todo pronóstico, el anarcosindicalismo resurgió con fuerza en...

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

This paper aims at better understanding the inefficiency due to distributional conflicts, which are inherent in every market economy. To this end, we set up a simple general equilibrium model with the following characteristics: two groups of agents (capitalists and workers), an endogenous income...

Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation rates introduce a "class bias" into the political process and thereby worsen the outcomes from it....

Karl Marx was a professional and master of several academic disciplines but in all, he is summed up as more of a conflict theorist. According to conflict school of thought, groups are constantly competing for unequally distributed resources, such as wealth and power, each group seeking to...

"Global Marx is a collective research on Marx's account of capital's domination through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigation of political structures and analysis of specific political spaces within the world market. His discourse appears here as global not only because global is...

We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, voters identify with the social group whose interests are closest to theirs and that features the strongest policy conflict with outgroups. Second, identification causes voters to slant their beliefs of self and others...

We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, voters identify with the social group whose interests are closest to theirs and that features the strongest policy conflict with outgroups. Second, identification causes voters to slant their beliefs of self and others...

Abstract The following is an account of my own personal involvement, over the last 20 years, with a circle of militants in California’s San Francisco Bay Area who have been researching changes in the class composition of global production. We have been using informal and formal inquiries with...

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Disciplines and Structures: Time, History, Mutations -- Chapter 1 On Possession and Property: Marx, Gans and the Law -- 1 Possession -- 2 Thefts of Wood --...

ch. 1 Shop Floor Economics --How Are Billionaires Created? --The Separation of Workers from Wealth --Class Struggle --ch. 2 Class Struggle Union Ideas --Class Struggle Unionism versus Business Unionism Them and Us --The Working Class Shall Free Itself --The Labor Bureaucracy and Class Struggle...