Class Action
Reading Labor, Theory and Value
William Corlett(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 1. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8014-8355-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text attempts to contest capitalist economics and strengthen workers' organizations while respecting the importance of all members of society. It reveals the numbers of human lives marked for extinction by capitalist ideology and often erased by traditional Marxism. The author explores the plight of homeless and jobless people as an extreme case of how Americans' sense of self-worth has become entangled with the circulation of money and commodities. Within a theoretical framework that draws from the works of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Jacques Derrida, Corlett reinterprets some of Marx's best-known texts and moves toward a plan for direct action. Relocating union organizing and anti-capitalist struggle to the least-valued sites in communities can, Corlett argues, encourage people to share resources in mutual support and defence while practicing irredentist manoeuvres in the name of a Labour underground.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
355 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-8355-4 (9780801483554)
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