The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital

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Pluto Press, 2007 - Business & Economics - 301 pages
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- 1. The Beginning of History -- Other Dimensions -- Front Line and Alternatives -- Emanating Antagonism -- False Polarities -- Structure of the Book -- Part I: Orientations: Co-Production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain -- 2. Value Struggles -- Temporary Time-Space Commons -- The Market as an Ethical System -- Positing the Outside -- Value Struggles -- 3. Capital as a Social Force -- Capitalism as Subsystem -- Capital -- Telos, Drive and Conatus -- 4. With No Limits -- Capital's Boundlessness -- Global M-C-M: a Classic Illustration -- 5. Production and Reproduction -- Circuit Coupling -- Waged and Unwaged Work and the Realm of the Invisible -- 6. Production, Reproduction and Global Loops -- The Front Line: the Articulation Between Conati -- International Division of Labour -- Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations On the Contemporary Work Machine -- 7. Enclosures and Disciplinary Integration -- Generation and Homeostasis -- A Conceptual Map -- Governmentality -- 8. Global Loops -- Neoliberal Globalisation -- Globalisations -- 9. The Global Work Machine -- Global Production Networks and TNCs -- Disciplinary Trade -- Spatial Substitutability and 'Class Composition' -- Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices -- 10. Marx and the Enclosures We Face -- Capital Encloses -- Marx and the Continuous Character of Enclosures -- Continuity, Social Conflict and Alternatives -- 11. Enclosures With No Limits -- Enclosures as a Front Line -- Types of Enclosure -- 12. The 'Law of Value', Immaterial Labour, and the 'Centre' of Power -- Global Markets and Value Practices -- What Is the 'Law of Value'? -- Critical Approaches to the 'Law of Value' -- The 'Centre' of Power -- 13. The Valuing and Measuring of Capital

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The beginning of history
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Enclosures and disciplinary integration
14
Value struggles
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Copyright

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Ted Honderich is Grote Professor Emeritus at University College London and author of numerous books on philosophy including After the Terror (Edinburgh University Press, 2002), How Free Are You? (Oxford University Press, 2001), and editor of The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers (Oxford University Press, 2001). He is also the editor of the Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

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