Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles

ISBN-13: 9781032057248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 152 str.

Opis

This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx’s critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies.

Recenzje

"Value has long remained absent or at best marginal in critically-oriented organization studies. In this timely book, Frederick Harry Pitts argues that we cannot avoid addressing this notion to confront the current multiple crises of capitalism. He then guides us into recovering Marx's critique of political economy to grasp how objects, people and relations acquire worth (or not) under capitalism. This exciting journey into valorisation, class composition, metabolic rift, and social reproduction sets up a renewed intellectual and political agenda that no organizational scholar committed to struggles for change should miss." Patrizia Zanoni, Professor and Chair in Organisation Studies, Utrecht School of Governance, Netherlands

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From Critical Management Studies to the Critique of Political Economy 2. Into the Hidden Abode: From the Labour Process to the Valorisation Process 3. Beyond the Hidden Abode: From Class Composition to the Crisis of Value 4. Behind the Hidden Abode: From Primitive Accumulation to the Metabolic Rift 5. Conclusion: From the Politics of Value to the Politics of Work

O autorze

Frederick Harry Pitts is Senior Lecturer in Work, Employment, Organisation and Public Policy at University of Bristol, UK.