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Can the Working Class Change the World?

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583677127
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Can the Working Class Change the World? written by Michael D. Yates and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

Can the Working Class Change the World?

Author : Michael Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781583677131
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Can the Working Class Change the World? written by Michael Yates and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Working Class

Author : Jürgen Kuczynski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Working Class written by Jürgen Kuczynski and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work Work Work

Author : Michael Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679650
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Work Work Work written by Michael Yates and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other - and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their respective ends. Michael D. Yates, in Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, offers a vastly different take on the nature of the labor market. This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction, by a small but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists, of a surplus from a much larger and propertyless class of wage laborers. Work Work Work offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge: In every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today's "captains of industry" like the Walton family (of the Walmart empire) and Jeff Bezos"--

Political Views and Ideas

Author : R. G. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579859
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Political Views and Ideas written by R. G. Williams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of modern politics, from a Socialist and Left-wing perspective. As a collection of essays on political ideas, it presents an analysis of the crisis of our times, through examining the various crises and problems which define modern society. It considers individual political aspects of the contemporary problems of Capitalist politics, ranging from economic crisis to social crisis, from Imperialism to the environmental crisis. As such, it serves to outline a solid argument for a better politics today: the politics of Socialism and Democratic Socialism.

Class Struggle Unionism

Author : Joe Burns
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642596817
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle Unionism written by Joe Burns and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.

Value Chains

Author : Intan Suwandi
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583677836
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Value Chains written by Intan Suwandi and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Global South 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 analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx’s own theory of exploitation. Value Chains uncovers the concrete processes through which multinational corporations, located primarily in the Global North, capture value from the Global South. We are brought face to face with various state-of-the-art corporate strategies that enforce “economical” and “flexible” production, including labor management methods, aimed to reassert the imperial dominance of the North, while continuing the dependency of the Global South and polarizing the global economy. Case studies of Indonesian suppliers exemplify the growing burden borne by the workers of the Global South, whose labor creates the surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North, as well as the secondary capitals of the South. Today, those who control the value chains and siphon off the profits are primarily financial interests with vast economic and political power—the power that must be broken if the global working class is to liberate itself. Suwandi’s book depicts in concrete detail the relations of unequal exchange that structure today’s world economy. This study, up-to-date and richly documented, puts labor and class back at the center of our understanding of the world capitalist system.

Workers and Politics

Author : R. G. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579913
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Workers and Politics written by R. G. Williams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of working-class politics, particularly in terms of British labour history. It explores the history of the British Left, the history of British Socialism, the history of British Communism, the ideas of Karl Marx, and the historical development of Socialism as the ideology of the working class.

Pedagogy of Resistance

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350269514
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Pedagogy of Resistance written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and conservative-based technologies, is partly responsible for creating these division. It contributes to the pitting of people against each other through the lens of class, race, and any other differences that don't embrace White nationalism. Giroux's analysis ranges from the pandemic and the inequality it has revealed, to the rise of Trumpism and its afterlife, and to the work of Paulo Freire and how his book Pedagogy of Hope can guide us in these dark times and help us produce critical and informed citizens. He argues that underlying the current climate of inequity, isolation, and social atomization (all exacerbated by the pandemic) is a crisis of education. Out of this comes the need for a pedagogy of resistance that is accessible to everyone, built around a vision of hope for an alternative society rooted in the ideals of justice, equality, and freedom.

Imperialism and Transitions to Socialism

Author : Rémy Herrera
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800437048
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Imperialism and Transitions to Socialism written by Rémy Herrera and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is designed to shed light on the issues of imperialism and the transitions to socialism. Delving into the theoretical aspects, whose analysis is key for understanding the subject under consideration, and practical experiences of socialist transition in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil.

Changing Song

Author : Miriam Rom Silverberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656673
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Changing Song written by Miriam Rom Silverberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nakano Sigeharu (1902-1979), leading twentieth-century Japanese poet and social critic, transformed the revolutionary culture movement of the 1920s. Positioning Nakano's thought within the very history of Japanese Marxism, Miriam Silverberg applies textual analyses to his pre-war writings to form a new perspective on the history of the politics and culture of the Japanese left. Her book relates Nakano to the Western Marxist tradition, recognizes the existence of a Japanese Marxist theory of commodity culture, and uses this theory to illuminate the era. In particular, Silverberg addresses how Nakano, like his European contemporaries, worked toward a critique of mass culture, illustrating how Japanese thinkers in the 1920s and 1930s adoped Marxism as the dominant method of political and intellectual inquiry. This book draws on Marx's writings and those of Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Bakhtin to present Nakano as a Marxist critic and poet. Close reading of Nakano's essays, poems (most of them appearing for the first time in English), fiction, and prison letters trace Nakano's "changing song" or consciousness through four stages--from his "discovery of history" in the mid-1920s to his refusal to be silenced during the late 1930s, when he produced a series of scthing attacks on intensifying state repression. Miriam Silverberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Building Power to Change the World

Author : James Muldoon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192598554
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Building Power to Change the World written by James Muldoon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War. They brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics, and dramatically transformed European politics. Building Power to Change the World reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society. It examines their attempts to democratize politics, the economy, and society through building powerful worker-led organisations and cultivating workers' political agency. Drawing from the practices of the council movements and the writings of theorists such as Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek and Karl Kautsky, Building Power to Change the World returns to their radical vision of a self-determining society and their political program of democratization and socialization. It presents a powerful argument for renewed attention to the political theories of this historical period and for their ongoing relevance for democratic politics today.

The Lives of Working Class Academics

Author : Iona Burnell Reilly
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801170576
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Working Class Academics written by Iona Burnell Reilly and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of autoethnographies written by academics who self-define as being from a working class heritage. Each one is an account of their lives, their experiences, and their journeys into becoming a higher education professional, in an industry still steeped in elitism.

How To Change The World

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748121129
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book How To Change The World written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy has never been more timely. Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and analyses the spectacular reversal of Marxism's fortunes over the past thirty years.

Writers, Writing, and Revolution

Author : R. G. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579875
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Writers, Writing, and Revolution written by R. G. Williams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the role of writers in social revolutions. It explores how writing and writers have shaped revolutions, and how they continue to do so. It also investigates the connection between writers and radicals, outlining some of the historical, political, social, and intellectual connections between writers and revolution. Overall, this is a book of political theory, literary theory, and political action; it is a call for writers to work towards Socialism.

Studies of Left-Wing Ideas

Author : R. G. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527579824
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Studies of Left-Wing Ideas written by R. G. Williams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays on radical left-wing ideas, specifically Socialism and Socialist Humanism. It outlines the basic ideas which make up left-wing thought, and ultimately provides a political argument that the ideas of Socialism and Socialist Humanism are crucial to building a better world.

Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy

Author : David Gabbard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561308
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy written by David Gabbard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing a three-fold political agenda, this volume: * illuminates how the meanings assigned to a whole vocabulary of words and phrases frequently used to discuss the role and reform of U.S. public schools reflect an essentially economic view of the world; * contends that education or educational reform conducted under an economized worldview will only intensify the effects of the colonial relations of political and economic domination that it breeds at home and abroad; and * offers a set of alternative concepts and meanings for reformulating the role of U.S. public schools and for considering the implications of such a reformulation more generally for the underlying premises of all human relationships and activities. Toward these ends, the authors, in Part I, critically examine many of the most commonly used terms within the rhetoric of educational reform since the early 1980s and before. Part II links today's economized worldview to curricular and instructional issues. These essays are especially important for comprehending how the organization of school curriculum privileges those disciplines deemed most central to market expansion--math and science--and how the political centrality of the economic sphere influences the nature of the knowledge presented in specific content areas. Given that language constrains as well as advances human thought, the twin tasks of de-economizing education and decolonizing society will require a vocabulary that transcends the familiar terminologies addressed in Parts I and II. The entries in Part III cultivate the beginnings of such a vocabulary as the authors elucidate innovative concepts which they view as central to the creation of truly alternative educational visions and practices.