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Housing, Wealth and Power
In the last chapter, I demonstrate that government intervention through regulation, taxing and spending influences what housing is produced, where...
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Power Transition as a Challenge to Normative Power Europe
The EU's solidarisation agenda was tied into the liberal moment of the 1990s and early 2000s whose high point has passed. Thus, international society...
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Labour Under Corbyn (2015–2020)
The chapter focuses on structural constraints and political obstacles that Labour faced under Corbyn. In the first section, various factors that...
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The Soft Power of the European Union in Four Regions
This chapter analyses the effectiveness of the EU’s soft power in the four most geopolitically important regions for the European Union: the Western...
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The Man Who Wasn’t There: Labour Under Corbyn
Labour’s dramatic advance in the 2017 election for Labour had confounded critics of radical left leader Jeremy Corbyn and left many of his allies...
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Labour, Capital, Machine: Marxist Theory and Technology
In this chapter Steinhoff provides the theoretical foundation for the book by surveying an array of Marxist thinkers through the lens of the...
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Associated Labour as an Educational Principle: Notes from Worker-Recovered Factories in Brazil and Argentina
This chapter aims to address school and non-school education in Latin American Recovered FactoriesRecovered Factories (RFs) (RF), especially in...
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Khmer Buddhism and the Moderation of Political Power in Cambodia
This chapter presents a brief background describing the ideals that traditionally underlay the relationship between the Khmer Buddhist monkhood...
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A Dark Art: The Machine Learning Labour Process
This chapter sketches a picture of the labour process that goes into producing machine learning systems. This labour process is schematized with...
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Organised Labour and Fluid Organisations: Insights from the Gilets Jaunes Movement
In this chapter, Colfer & Bazin consider the emergence of the “Gilets Jaunes” (yellow vest) movement in France in 2018 and the implications this has...
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Path to Power: The Brexit Election
Isla Glaister was part of the Sky News editorial team that covered what they called the “Brexit Election”. An important aspect of this reporting was...
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Post-Operaismo and the New Autonomy of Immaterial Labour
This chapter continues the survey of Marxist theory begun in the previous chapter. It focuses in particular on operaismo and post-operaismo. It...
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Notes on Social Movements and Education: Challenges of the Struggle Between Capital and Labour in Brazil
This chapter aims to outline the relationship between social movements and education in light of the particularities of Brazilian capitalism. We...
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The Critique of Political Economy as Critical Social Theory
Chapter 5 places the question of labour as not-capital within the context of a relatively new current of thought that seeks to develop Marx’s...
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The Forgiveness Project: a conversation about peace activism and the transformative power of story
The Forgiveness Project is an organisation whose peace activism is devoted to the collection and curation of testimonies that bear witness to the...
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Self-Management: Towards a Revolution in the Process, Organisation and Division of Labour
The last part (“Work, Democratic Experiments”) discusses actual experiments that combine the processes of democratisation of work and democratisation...
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Creating unfinished institutions: power trajectory and the consequences of incomplete trade agreements
Today, there is uncertainty about the future of global trade. In the west, major comprehensive trading arrangements are renegotiated or exited....
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The Concept of Power in Engels’s Theory of the State
In this chapter, I analyze Engels’s interpretation of the state and state power in his Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. I...
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Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis
Differentiated integration, and the prospect thereof, is a prominent feature of European integration and policymaking. This article theorizes and...
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Restaurant Backyards, Food Stores, and Temples: Invisibility, Informal Labour Practices, and Migrant Networks in the Suburbs of Warsaw
In the recent years, Poland has emerged as an attractive migration destination and has witnessed a substantial growth of the migrant population,...