Recently added articles from Capital & Class:
Leadership and union militancy: the case of the RMT.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Introduction Kelly's (1998) seminal exposition and refinement of mobilisation theory has been well received, in general, the field of British industrial relations since it appeared more than a decade ago. Yet there remains a paucity of empirical studies that attempt to relate ...
Arthur on money and exchange.(Christopher Arthur)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Introduction Christopher Arthur has taken the trouble to critique the Unoist approach to value-form theory (Arthur, 2006), while celaborating on his own reformulation of Marx's seminal contribution to this important subject (Marx, 1987[1857]: 43-96). Though I greatly respect ...
From Okishio to Marx through dialectics.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... 1. Introduction Marx's law of the tendential fall in the profit rate (from now on, 'the law') is a topic of huge theoretical and practical importance within Marxism. It concerns nothing less than a theory of crises (even though it is only a preliminary to such a theory). It also ...
Sympathy for the teacher: labour law and transgressive workers' collective action in British Columbia, 2005.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Introduction Since the 1940s, unions in Canada have been shaped by a distinctive mode of legal and administrative regulation that scholars have dubbed 'industrial pluralism'. This regime of industrial legality both granted unions a number of rights for which they had struggled ...
'The authors and the actors of their own drama': towards a Marxist theory of social movements.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... To thoroughly examine all these questions, is it not to make real profane history of the men in each century, to represent these men at the same time as the authors and the actors of their own drama? But from the moment that you represent men as the actors and authors of their own history ...