Beyond Marx: Confronting Labour-history And The Concept Of Labour With The Global Labour-relations Of The Twenty-first: Historical Materialism, Volume 56

Capitalism has proven much more resilient than Marx anticipated, and the working class has hardly lived up to his hopes. What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews Capitalism’s entire history while moving beyond Eurocentrism? In this volume twenty-two authors offer their thoughts on this question, both from a historical and theoretical perspective.