[p2p-research] Radical Economics and Labour

[Michel Bauwens]

*Radical Economics and Labour***

Edited by Frederic Lee, Jon Bekken

*University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA, Albright College, USA***

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*To celebrate the centenary of the most radical union in North America - The
Industrial Workers of the World - this collection examines radical economics
and the labor movement in the 20th Century. The union advocates direct
action to raise wages and increase job control, and it envisions the
eventual abolition of capitalism and the wage system through the general
strike. ***

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*January 2009*: 196pp / HB: 978-0-415-77723-0:  *£70.00 – 20% discount
available – see attachment***

The contributors to this volume speak both to economists and to those in the
labor movement, and point to fruitful ways in which these radical heterodox
traditions have engaged and continue to engage each other and with the labor
movement. In view of the current crisis of organized labor and the
beleaguered state of the working class—phenomena which are global in
scope—the book is both timely and important. Representing a significant
contribution to the non-mainstream literature on labor economics, the book
reactivates a marginalized analytical tradition which can shed a great deal
of light on the origins and evolution of the difficulties confronting
workers throughout the world.

This volume will be of most interest to students and scholars of heterodox
economics, those involved with or researching The Industrial Workers of the
World, as well as anyone interested in the more radical side of unions,
anarchism and labor organizations in an economic context.

Contents Iv Notes on Contributors: x Introduction. Radical Economics and the
Labor Movement by Frederic S. Lee and Jon Bekken: 1 Chapter 1. Senex's
Letters on Associated Labour and the Pioneer, 1834: A Syndicalist Political
Economy in the Making by Noel Thompson: 40 Chapter 2. Peter Kropotkin's
Anarchist Economics for a New Society by Jon Bekken: 79 Chapter 3. Some
Notes on Anarchist Economic Thought by Mathew Forstater: 98 Chapter 4. The
Economics of the Industrial Workers of the World: Job Control and Revolution
by Frederic S. Lee: 142 Chapter 5. Economic Science and the Left: Thoughts
on Sraffa's Equations and the Efficacy of Organized Labor by Tony
Aspromourgos: 179 Chapter 6. John Kenneth Galbraith's New Industrial State
40 Years Later: A Radical Perspective by Spencer Pack: 216 Chapter 7. A
Radical Critique and Alternative to U.S. Industrial Relations Theory and
Practice by Richard McIntyre and Michael Hillard: 284 Chapter 8. Labor
during Transition: A Radical Institutional Approach by John Marangos: 317
Chapter 9. Offshore Production and Global Labor Arbitrage: A New Era of
Capitalism? by Claude Pottier: 345 Chapter 10. Financialization,
Employability and their Impacts on the Bank Workers' Union Movement in
Brazil (1994-2004) by Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, José Ricardo Barbosa
Gonçalves and José Dari Krein

For more information including a table of contents, or to order your copy,
please visit www.routledge.com/9780415777230.



Recommend to your University library – see attachment.





Professor Frederic S. Lee

Department of Economics

University of Missouri-Kansas City

5100 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, Missouri  64110

USA

E-mail:  leefs at umkc.edu

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