ARTICLES

The Labor Theory of Value and the strategic role of alienation
Carl Wennerlind

Focusing on alienation as a particularly important moment of the accumulation process, this paper clarifies the synthetic and symbiotic relationship between alienation, social control, and value. It is argued that value can be defined as the continuity of social control and that social control is established through the process of alienation.

Are things really getting better? The labour market experience of black and female youth at the start of the century
Christina Cregan

By an analysis of econometric studies, case study work and official statistics, this paper debunks the idea that, for the majority of young women and young blacks, things are getting better in the labour market. The main explanation lies in the particular form of stratification that each experiences. Policy recommendations are discussed.

"Throwing the baby out with the bath-water"
Managers and managerialism in the post-privatised utilities

Kate Mulholland

This paper explores the managerial labour process in the utilities and draws on Armstrong's (1991) agency concept to demonstrate the manner in which staffing policies have re-cast professional cleavages as managers compete to protect their interests.

Neo-liberalism and labour within the context of an emerging market economy -Turkey
Sürhan Cam

Neo-liberalism, labour and the experience of an emerging market economy

European integration: the market, the political and class
Werner Bonefeld

The article argues that the EC was founded to advance the free market in western Europe. It explores the relationship between mass society and the politics of a supranational commitment to market liberalism and examines the relationship between class and EMU.

 

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BOOK
REVIEWS
Richard J. Golsan (ed.): Fascism's Return, Scandal, Revision and Ideology since 1980s Werner Bonefeld

Gilbert Achcar (ed.): The Legacy of Ernest Mandel Richard Leitch

Colin Hay: The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring Under False Pretences? Ben Gidley

Herbert Marcuse: Feindanalyse, Über die Deutschen Werner Bonefeld

Ben Rosamond: Theories of European Integration Rosie Cunningham

Michael Sprinkler (ed.): Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx Suman Gupta

Mike Davies: Late Victorian Holocausts Andrew McCulloch

Ian Bentley: Urban Transformations. Power, people and urban design
Kim Dovey: Framing Places. Mediating power in built form Rob Atkinson

Ian Gough: Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies Mike Howard

 

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