Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour.

Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: van Onzen, Fabian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2021.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 202.
Subjects:
Service industries workers.
Clerks (Retail trade)
Hospitality industry > Employees.
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 4 Residential Cleaning under Socialism
  • 4.1 Cleaning Outside the Home
  • 5 Transportation under Socialism
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 12 Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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