Worker Protests, the Morning After: 7 lessons from Argentina for the future
By Ethan Earle — October 24th, 2009
Possibilities for bridging the gap between the symbolism of resistance and a real alternative for the working world.
Posts Tagged ‘capital’
Marx and the current ‘crisis’ of capitalism
By D. T. Cochrane — October 22nd, 2008
The latest upheavals in the global financial markets have revived interest in the political economic analysis of Karl Marx. Sales of Marx’s opus Capital - which English media insists on calling by its untranslated German title, Das Kapital - have reportedly skyrocketed. The UK …
Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation
By Matthew Lymburner — April 2nd, 2008
The title of my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue …
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
By Jim Dooley — March 18th, 2008
Is the music industry changing to the great extent that we all read about? Alternatively, is it fair to say that industry monopolies and forms of cooption are persisting as they always have? These seem to be the two poles in an ongoing debate. My …
Peak oil?: Oil supply and accumulation
By D. T. Cochrane — January 4th, 2008
Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.
