Socialist Register 2014: Registering Class PDF
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/registeringclassOOOOunse SOCIALIST REGISTER 2 0 14 THE SOCIALIST REGISTER Founded in 1964 EDITORS LEO PANITCH GREG ALBO VIVEK CHIBBER FOUNDING EDITORS RALPH MILIBAND (1924-1994) JOHN SAVILLE (1916-2009) ASSOCIATE EDITORS COLIN LEYS ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO ASSISTANT EDITOR ALAN ZUEGE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ADAM HILTON CONTRIBUTING EDITORS BASHIR ABU-MANNEH GILBERT ACHCAR HENRY BERNSTEIN JOHANNA BRENNER PAUL CAMMACK GEORGE COMNINEL MADELEINE DAVIS BARBARA EPSTEIN BILL FLETCHER JR SAM GINDIN* BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE DAVID HARVEY JUDITH ADLER HELLMAN NANCY HOLMSTROM URSULA HUWS RAY KIELY CHARLES POST ADOLPH REED JR SHEILA ROWBOTHAM JOHN S. SAUL HILARY WAIN WRIGHT CORRESPONDING EDITORS AIJAZ AHMAD, NEW DELHI ELMAR ALTVATER, BERLIN PATRICK BOND, DURBAN ATILIO BORON, BUENOS AIRES HIDAYAT (GERARD) GREENFIELD, JAKARTA CHRISTOPH HERMANN, VIENNA MARTIJN KONINGS, SYDNEY MICHAEL LOWY, PARIS MICHALIS SPOURDALAKIS, ATHENS To get online access to all Register volumes visit our website http://www.socialistregister.com SOCIALIST REGISTER 2 0 14 REGISTERING CLASS Edited by LEO PANITCH, GREG ALBO and VIVEK CHIBBER k THE MERLIN PRESS MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS FERNWOOD PUBLISHING First published in 2013 by The Merlin Press Ltd. 99B Wallis Road London E9 5LN www.merhnpress.co.uk © The Merlin Press, 2013 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library ISSN. 0081-0606 Published in the UK by The Merlin Press ISBN. 978-0-85036-643-3 Paperback ISBN. 978-0-85036-642-6 Hardback Published in the USA by Monthly Review Press ISBN. 978-1-58367-431-4 Paperback Published in Canada by Fernwood Publishing ISBN. 978-1-55266-593-0 Paperback Printed in the UK on behalf of LPPS Ltd., Wellingborough, Northants. CONTENTS Leo Panitch Preface ix Greg Albo Vivek Chibber Arun Gupta The Walmart working class 1 Bryan Palmer Reconsiderations of class: precariousness as proletarianization 40 Vivek Chibber Capitalism, class and universalism: escaping the cul-de-sac of postcolonial theory 63 Ursula Huws The underpinnings of class in the digital age: living, labour and value 80 Colin Leys The British ruling class 108 Claude Serfati The new configuration of the capitalist class 138 William K. Carroll Whither the transnational capitalist class? 162 Bastiaan van The European capitalist class Apeldoorn and the crisis of its hegemonic project 189 Virginia Fontes Brazil’s new imperial capitalism 207 Ana Garcia Alfredo Saad-Filho Mass protests: Brazilian spring Lecio Morais or Brazilian malaise? 227 Ian MacDonald Beyond the labour of Sisyphus: unions and the city 247 Andrew Murray Left unity or class unity? Working-class politics in Britain 266 Madeleine Davis Rethinking class: the lineage of the Socialist Register 287 Leo Panitch Registering class and politics: fifty years of the Socialist Register 305
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