Beyond Marx: Confronting Labour History and the Concept of Labour With the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century

Capitalism has proven much more resilient than Marx anticipated, and the working class has hardly lived up to his hopes. What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews Capitalism's entire history while moving beyond Eurocentrism? In this volume twenty-two authors offer their thoughts on this question, both from a historical and theoretical perspective.