Class Action : Reading Labor, Theory and Value
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Redefining labor and value beyond capitalist ideology.
This book offers a unique perspective on labor theory by incorporating the works of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Jacques Derrida. It challenges traditional Marxist ideas, advocates for direct action, and proposes strategies for organizing workers who are often overlooked by mainstream labor movements. Class Action is ideal for readers interested in anti-capitalist struggle, labor organizing, and social justice issues.
Class Action : Reading Labor, Theory and Value
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ISBN: 9780801483554
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Authors:
William Corlett
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Political Science,
Sociology,
Theory,
Finance,
Society,
Sociology,
Social Justice,
Economics,
Politics
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Class Action attempts to contest capitalist economics and to strengthen workers' organizations while respecting the importance of all members of society. It reveals the numbers of human lives marked for extinction by capitalist ideology and often erased by traditional Marxism. Award-winning author William Corlett looks at the plight of homeless and jobless people as an extreme case of how Americans' sense of self-worth has become entangled with the circulation of money and commodities. Within a theoretical framework that draws from the works of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, and Jacques Derrida, Corlett reinterprets some of Marx's best-known texts and moves toward a plan for direct action. Relocating union organizing and anticapitalist struggle to the least-valued sites in communities can, Corlett argues, encourage people to share resources in mutual support and defense while practicing irredentist maneuvers in the name of a Labor underground.
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