The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

ISBN-13: 9780190695545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 864 str.

Matt Vidal; Tony Smith; Tomas Rotta

Opis

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for scholars and students new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists and politicalscientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians and geographers.

Recenzje

This Oxford handbook serves its stated purpose of providing an entry point into Marxist theory. While the book aims to be accessible to beginners, readers will benefit from prior understanding of economic theories. This collection of empirical research is divided into seven sections that can be read independently. Some of the sections include essay collections such as "Labor, Class, and Social Divisions," "Capitalist States and Spaces," and "Alternatives to Capitalism." The handbook has various points of entry beginning with the table of contents, which receives a detailed walk-through in the introductory chapter. The index is also detailed and thorough (as one would expect from Oxford's authoritative series). If the researching mind finds itself stimulated, each chapter contains extensive citations. This detailed volume provides enough information for readers to make their own decision on whether Marxism still lives. R. I. Saltz, Independent scholar, CHOICE

O autorze

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London, Institute of International Management. His work has been published in Contexts, Critical Sociology, Organization Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Work, Employment & Society, and others. He is author (with David Kusnet) of Organizing Prosperity (EPI) and editor (with Marco Hauptmeier) of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave). Matt is working on a book, under contract with Oxford University Press: Management Divided: Contradictions of labor management in American capitalism. He is editor-in-chief of "Work in Progress," a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association on the economy, work and inequality. Tony Smith is the author of 6 books and over eighty articles on Marx, the critical theory of technology, and issues in normative social theory. His works include The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms; Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account; and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marxism and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century. Tomás Rotta is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the International Business & Economics department at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, and member of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Center (GPERC). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, an MS in Economic Development and a BA in Business Management from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in Political Economy. Paul Prew specializes in Marxist theory and environmental sociology. He has forthcoming chapters summarizing the work of Karl Marx in Reaktion and Routledge Presses and prior publications include the topics of critical pedagogy, perceptions of police misconduct, and the effect of the world-economy on carbon-dioxide emissions. At Minnesota State University, Mankato, he teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate theory, indigeneity and environment, globalization, and introduction to sociology. Dr. Prew is also the treasurer for the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association as well as the local non-profit, Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association. At his university, he has received the Global Citizen, Diversity Champion, and the Kessel Peacemaker Awards.