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The Extended Reproduction of Labour Power
For Marx, human labourMarx, Karlon labour is the defining characteristic of what it is to be human. LabourMarx, Karlon labour represents the ‘spark...
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Leadership election reform in the British Labour party: democratisation or power struggle?
This article examines the impact of reforms on the outcome of Labour party leadership contests since the premiership of Tony Blair. From a...
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Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective
Greece experienced near political implosion between 2010 and 2012 with large-scale demonstrations, strikes, riots, damage to public and private...
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Divisions within the British Parliamentary Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Results of a Cluster Analysis
This paper offers a methodologically innovative two-stage approach for studying divisions amongst parliamentary representatives. Using the...
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Economic Development: The Labour Market
This chapter examines gender and race gaps in labour participation, wages, job distribution, and income inequality in Trinidad and Tobago (TT). The...
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Labour as a Vital Need and Alienated Labour: Contributions to the Debate on the Relationship Between Labour and an Education Beyond Capital
This chapter aims to reflect on labour as a vital need for human beings and on alienated labour in the capitalist mode of production. This is an...
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New Labour and the Italian PD
This chapter discusses “New Labour”, considering the similarities with the PD and therefore the extent to which an understanding of the former helps...
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The ‘Critique of Labour’: Moishe Postone, Wertkritik, John Holloway
Chapter 4 makes a critical review certain theorists for whom a positive labour ontology no longer has any explicit place in a reconsidered critique...
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Must Labour Lose? A Reconsideration
Must Labour Lose? (MLL) was written in response to the Conservative victory in the 1959 General Election. With an increased number of seats and a...
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The Class Struggle: Revolutionising Institutions to Democratise Labour
The second part (“Theoretical models and political issues”) begins with an analysis of two dynamic meanings of the political centrality of work: the...
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Suffering and Its Social Validation: On Abstract Labour
MarxMarx, Karl conceives of his historical materialismmaterialism as critiquecritique of the existing social relations. It is to ‘develop from the...
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The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study
Over the past decades, the level of regulation of fixed-term contracts has been in flux. Many reforms deregulating these contracts were followed by a...
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Cosmopolitanism: Power Matters
Cosmopolitanism is known primarily as a moral vision of world citizenship that transcends borders and political divisions. Rather than assuming a...
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Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism
Debates about England’s geographic inequalities and the extent to which the problem is intertwined with the ‘Westminster system’ of government are...
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Hegemony and the dynamics of power: a Gramscian update for the study of power in IR
The study of power in IR has produced insightful typologies, but the persisting paradigmatic divisions induce problems that stifle further progress....
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European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration
COVID-19 regulations introduced in EU member states in 2020 meant serious restrictions for the free movement of persons, particularly workers. An...
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The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence
The Co-operative Party, which represents the interests and ideas of the co-operative movement in British politics, has been the sister party of UK...
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Labour Issues in Malaysia Amidst Deglobalisation
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly increased the trend towards deglobalisation by decreasing interconnectedness and interdependency between...
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Racialized Skilled Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
The chapter begins with a personal narrative, specifically my situatedness as a researcher and a practitioner in migration studies; it also...
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Prime Ministerial Power in Party and Parliamentary Context
This chapter examines prime ministerial power in the context of party and parliamentary politics. Borrowing from (Heppell in Understanding...