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Book Synopsis
Analyses new political economy theory and its role in bringing about radical social change

Trade Review
'Brings creativity to the centre of anti-capitalist thought and through it provides new meanings to the concepts of anarchism, socialism and communism' -- Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
'A kind of intellectual revolution in itself, both rigourous and exciting' -- David Graeber, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
'A breakthrough book in anti-capitalist theory' -- George Caffentzis, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables and Boxes
Preface
1. The Beginning of History
Part I: Orientations: Co-production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain
2. Value Struggles
3. Capital as a Social Force
4. With No Limits
5. Production and Reproduction
6. Production, Reproduction and Global Loops
Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations on the Contemporary Work Machine
7 Enclosures and Disciplinary Integration
8. Global Loops
9. The Global Work Machine
Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices
10. Marx and the Enclosures we Face
11. Enclosures with No Limits
12. The ‘Law of Value,’ Immaterial Labour, and the ‘Centre' of Power
13. The Valuing and Measuring of Capital
14. Market Freedom and the Prison: Hayek and Bentham
15. The Fractal Panopticon and Ubiquitous Revolution
Part IV: ‘By Asking Questions we Walk’: The Problematics of Decoupling
16. The ‘Outside’
17. Commons
Notes
References
Other Web Resources
Index

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: 12/20/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780745320359, 978-0745320359
      ISBN10: 074532035X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyses new political economy theory and its role in bringing about radical social change

      Trade Review
      'Brings creativity to the centre of anti-capitalist thought and through it provides new meanings to the concepts of anarchism, socialism and communism' -- Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
      'A kind of intellectual revolution in itself, both rigourous and exciting' -- David Graeber, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
      'A breakthrough book in anti-capitalist theory' -- George Caffentzis, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures
      List of Tables and Boxes
      Preface
      1. The Beginning of History
      Part I: Orientations: Co-production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain
      2. Value Struggles
      3. Capital as a Social Force
      4. With No Limits
      5. Production and Reproduction
      6. Production, Reproduction and Global Loops
      Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations on the Contemporary Work Machine
      7 Enclosures and Disciplinary Integration
      8. Global Loops
      9. The Global Work Machine
      Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices
      10. Marx and the Enclosures we Face
      11. Enclosures with No Limits
      12. The ‘Law of Value,’ Immaterial Labour, and the ‘Centre' of Power
      13. The Valuing and Measuring of Capital
      14. Market Freedom and the Prison: Hayek and Bentham
      15. The Fractal Panopticon and Ubiquitous Revolution
      Part IV: ‘By Asking Questions we Walk’: The Problematics of Decoupling
      16. The ‘Outside’
      17. Commons
      Notes
      References
      Other Web Resources
      Index

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