Description
Book SynopsisThis book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism, both theoretical and methodological, is scarce. The objective of this volume is the collection of works developing a critical reflection on the categories of theories about contentious collective action and social movements from a Marxist perspective. In order to better understand these phenomena and go beyond their mere case description, the theory needs to be improved. To that end, the book also promotes the debate between Marxisms and the collective action and new social movements in a renewed way. Here different Marxist arguments consider not only their methodological and ideological bias, but also the specific conceptual contributions of those theories.
Table of Contents1 Introduction
2 From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition.
3 Class Formation and Collective Action from a Marxist Perspective
4 From Mechanisms to Dynamics: How to Embed Social Movement Studies Within Historical Materialism
5 The Denial of Social Classes in the Theory of Collective Contentious Action
6 On Dignity: Reflections on the Rationality of Insurrectional Actions
7 A Marxist Perspective on Workers’ Collective Action
8 Work, Reproduction and Informality: Challenges for a Marxist Politics of Labour
9 Gramsci, Theoretician of Political Subjectivation: The Subalternity–Autonomy–Hegemony Triad
10 Surplus Populations, Working-Class Struggles and Crises of Capitalism: A World-Historical MaterialistReconceptualization
11 Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies12 About the Old and New “Class Maps”: Notes on the Formation of the Working Class
