The Beginning of History
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The Beginning of History

Value Struggles and Global Capital

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Beginning of History

Value Struggles and Global Capital

About this book

Francis Fukuyama may declare the 'end of history', and neoliberal capital embraces this belief. However, the diverse struggles for commons and dignity around the planet reveal a different reality: that of the beginning of history. The clash between these two perspectives is the subject matter of this book. This book analyses the frontline of this struggle. On one side, a social force called capital pursues endless growth and monetary value. On the other side, other social forces strive to rearrange the web of life on their own terms. This book engages with alternative modes of co-production recently posed by the alter-globalisation movement, and it examines what these movements are up against. This account explores groundbreaking new critical political economic theory and its role in bringing about radical social change.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780745320359
eBook ISBN
9781783716586

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Preface
  7. 1. The Beginning of History
  8. Part I: Orientations: Co-Production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain
  9. Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations On the Contemporary Work Machine
  10. Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices
  11. Part IV: ‘By Asking Questions We Walk’: the Problematics of Decoupling
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Other Web Resources
  15. Index