Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part One

The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below

Seamen on Late Eighteenth-Century European Warships

Class-Warfare: Primitive Accumulation, Military Revolution and the British War-Worker

The Shifting Maelstrom: From Plantations to Assembly-Lines

Workerism: An Inside View: From the Mass-Worker to Self-Employed Labour

Workers and Working Classes in Contemporary India: A Note on Analytic Frames and Political Formations

Revolutionary Subjectivity, the Limit to Capital

Housewifisation – Globalisation – Subsistence-Perspective

Notes on Elder-Care Work and the Limits of Marxism

Part Two

Cornelius Castoriadis’s Break With Marxism

A Theory of Defeat: Marx and the Evidence of the Nineteenth Century

Poverty, Labour, Development: Towards a Critique of Marx’s Conceptualisations

What is Sold on the Labour-Market?

In And For Itself: Freedom. On the Historical Tendency of a Renewed Critique of the Political Economy of Labour

The ‘Fragment on Machines’ and the Grundrisse: The Workerist Reading in Question

Revolution from Above? Money and Class-Composition in Italian Operaismo

Marxism after the Death of Gold

From the Mass-Worker to Cognitive Labour: Historical and Theoretical Considerations

Results and Prospects

Bibliography

Index