| Description |
1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Series |
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 202 |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 202.
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| Contents |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Centrality of Service Work in Contemporary Capitalism -- 2 Overview of Book -- Chapter 2 Historical Materialism -- 1 Method of Historical Materialism -- 2 Mode of Production and Social Formation -- 3 Historical Materialist Research -- Chapter 3 Marxism, Class and the Service Industry -- 1 Marxist Class Analysis -- 2 Marxist Definition of Class -- 3 Two Approaches to Class Analysis -- 4 Main Classes of Capitalist Mode of Production |
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4.1 The Working Class -- 4.2 The Bourgeoisie -- 4.3 The Petty-Bourgeoisie -- 4.4 The Dissolution of the Petty-Bourgeoisie -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 4 Service Labour and Value Theory -- 1 Marxism, Services, Commodities -- 2 The Commodity-Form -- 3 Surplus-Value and Service Workers -- 4 Surplus Value in the Service Industry -- 5 Productive and Unproductive Labour -- 6 Increased Surplus-Value -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Retail and the Circulation of Commodities -- 1 Circulation of Commodities -- 2 Circulation Time and Costs of Circulation -- 3 Production in Circulation |
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4 Consumption Time and Consumption Period -- Chapter 6 Monopoly Capital and the Sales Effort -- 1 Marx on Commercial Capital -- 2 The Emergence of Monopoly Capital -- 3 Imperialism and Monopoly Capitalism -- 4 Imperialism and the Split in the Bourgeoisie -- 5 Dependency Theory: Centre and Periphery -- 6 Unequal Exchange -- Chapter 7 Two Stages of Production and Realisation -- 1 Stage One: Production of Goods -- 2 Stage Two: Realisation of Surplus-Value -- 3 Possibilities for Resistance to Monopoly Capitalism -- Chapter 8 A Marxist Analysis of Outsourcing |
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1 Bidvest-Noonan: A Case Study in Outsourcing -- 2 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Cleaning Workers and Surplus Value -- 1 Molly Maid: A Case Study -- 2 Conclusion -- Chapter 10 Organising Retail and Service Workers -- 1 Retail: H&M Workers in Germany -- 2 Cleaners in Struggle -- 3 Exposure Campaigns and Workers Power -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Service, Retail and Transport under Socialism -- 1 What Is Socialism? -- 1.1 Workers Power -- 1.2 Socialist Mode of Production -- 1.3 Socialist Planning -- 2 Food Consumption under Socialism -- 3 Socialist Integration and Retail Labour under Socialism |
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4 Residential Cleaning under Socialism -- 4.1 Cleaning Outside the Home -- 5 Transportation under Socialism -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Service industries workers.
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Clerks (Retail trade)
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Hospitality industry -- Employees
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004469624 |
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9004469621 |
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