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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxist conception of class in order to theorise the complex contemporary economic terrain. Suggesting the possibility of a new politics of the economy, the collection as a whole focuses on the diversity and contingency of economic relations and processes.
Trade Review“ There’s a lot of talk about ‘getting back to class,’ as if all the other things that have concerned social theorists for the last couple of decades were a waste of time. Here’s a book that gets back to class a lot wiser for that experience. Even when you don’t agree with the contributors, they make you think, and very productively. What more can you ask from a book?”—Doug Henwood, author of
A New EconomyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Toward a Poststructuralist Political Economy / J. K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff
2. Reading Marx for Class / Bruce Norton
3. Toward a New Class Politics of the Enterprise / J. K. Gibson-Graham and Phillip O’Neill
4. Ivy-covered Exploitation: Class, Education, and the Liberal Arts College / Fred Curtis
5. Nature and Class: A Marxian Value Analysis / Andriana Vlachou
6. The Promise of Finance: Banks and Community Development / Carole Biewener
7. “After” Development: Re-imagining Economy and Class / J. K. Gibson-Graham and David Ruccio
8. Development and Class Transition in India / Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg
9. A Class Analysis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 / Satyananda Gabriel
10. Sharecropping and Feudal Class Processes in the Postbellum Mississippi Delta / Serap Ayse Kayatekin
11. Communal Class Processes and Precolumbian Social Dynamics / Dean Saitta
12. Struggles in the USSR: Communisms Attempted and Undone / Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
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